Chinese & Japanese

Tu Shen-yen

between the 7th and 8th centuries AD


Tu Shen-yen was a T’ang poet who lived between the seventh and eighth centuries; he is generally identified as the grandfather of Tu Fu.

The poem here is Witter Bynner and Kiang Kang-hu’s version in The Jade Mountain (1929), given with the poet’s name as spelled here.

  1. On a Walk in the Early Spring

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