Chinese & Japanese

Yang-ti

r. AD 605–617


Yang-ti was emperor of the Sui dynasty from AD 605 to 617. Waley gives one four-line poem of his, on the spring river by moonlight.

The poems here are Arthur Waley’s version in A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems (1918), given with the poet’s name as spelled in those books.

  1. Flowers and Moonlight on the Spring River

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