Edition of 500. Pamphlet bound with stab binding and off-white, flecked paper wrappers, and blue calligraphy style letterpress title/author text. Letterpress printed text of Japanese Nara period poems that have been translated and annotated by Corman. "This edition of five hundred copies is designed by Carl Kay. Cover design by Wang Hui Ming of Montague. The type is Garamond, the paper Ragston. Fifty copies are numbered and signed by the translator. Covers of paper made by hand by Jessica Ferguson. Produced in Cambridge Massachusetts after Winter Solstace 1980. Monotype by George McCoubrey. Hand presswork by Sleeth Mitchell..."--Colophon. Firefly Press, Cambridge, MA