At Salty Dog Digital we’ve decided to gradually republish Clay MacCauley’s translation of Single Songs of a Hundred Poets – a collection of japanese poetry from the seventh through thirteenth centuries. Sixty four of these poems are the rewards in our game fourtex zen.

An Emperor’s Sympathy

Coarse the rush-mat roof  
 Sheltering the harvest-hut  
Of the autumn rice-field;–  
 And my sleeves are growing wet  
 With the moisture dripping through.

Tenchi Tennō (Emperor Tenchi)

Aki no ta no  
 Kario no io no  
Toma wo arami  
 Waga koromode wa  
 Tsuyu ni nure-tsutsu.