Legends of the Crane Book

	Preface	xiii
Part 1
	The Sandhill Cranes	3
	Ch'ang-ku	5
	The Gifts of the Cranes	5
	Clear Evening after Rain	10
	Poem by Kasa Kanamura	10
	The Cranes	11
	Cranes Crying in the Marshes	11
	Brolga, the Dancing Girl	12
	Poem by Yamabe Akahito	13
	The Python and the Heron	13
	#4 of the Seven Poems by Saigyo Hoshi	14
	The Storks	14
	Poem by Claudius Claudianus	19
	The Great Summons	20
	The Peacock and the Crane	21
	Short Poems on Various Subjects, Two Selections - #2	21
	Thoughts in Early Autumn: Thirty Rhymes	22
	Arap Sang and the Cranes	22
	The Parliament of Fowls & The Parlement of Foules	27
	Hidden in the Blind	29
	Untitled tanka by Cheryl J. Wilkinson	29
	The Marsh King's Daughter	30
Part 2
	Water Song, First Part (A Pact with the Gulls)	68
	Jeremiah 8:7	68
	Migration	69
	The Fowls of Heaven or A History of Birdes	70
	The Wolf and the Crane	70
	Hymn	71
	St. Columba and the Crane	72
	The Crane's Feather	73
	Four Untitled Poems - #1	86
	The Man Who Dreamed of Fairies	87
	Season of Cranes	87
	Crane dancing in the sky	88
	Thoughts in Early Autumn; Thirty Rhymes Sent to Lu-wang	89
	Poem by Osakabe Otomaro	89
	The Fox and the Crane	89
	Poem by Lodovico Ariosto	90
	The Toad	90
	Poem by Basho	92
	Seeing Meng Haoran off to Yangzhou from Yellow Crane Tower	93
	Poem by Yamabe Akahito	94
	Wonder of Cranes will Perpetuate through the Centuries	94
Part 3
	Going Alone to Spend a Night at the Hsien-yu Temple	100
	The Enchanted Bluff	100
	Crane Watching	101
	On the Lake near the Western Mountains	101
	Wisconsin--Marshland Elegy	102
	The Long Gray Line	108
	Rowe Sanctuary	109
	Psalm 104, Verse 16 & 17	109
	A Slight Error	110
	Perfect Crane	111
	The Word Crane in Other Languages	115
	Peiter, Peter, and Peer	117
	The Farmer and the Cranes	122
	Poem by Monk Mantuan	122
	Bittersweet is the Crane	123
	Writing by Aldo Leopold	124
	The Heron	124
	Writing from The Seagull	125
	Poem by Tajihi	125
	The Race Between the Crane and the Hummingbird	126
	In Search of Solitude	128
	The Cry of a Crane	129
	Three parts of Ling-hsu-yin	129
	The Crane	130
	Flying Crane Pavilion	130
	Poem by Otomo Yakamochi	131
Part 4
	The Dance of the Whooping Cranes	134
	The Advengers of Ibycus	139
	Platte River Sunset	140
	Why Crane's Feathers are Brown and Otter Doesn't Feel the Cold	142
	The Crane Maiden Story	143
	Remembering the Crane I Released	148
	The Trap	149
	A Pair of Cranes bathing in a Brook	149
	The Cranes at Minden Bridge: All and Spring	150
	Sandhill Cranes Visit This Area on Their Way North	151
	The crane cries in the marshes, its sound is heard in the skies	153
	Overlooking the Desert	154
	A Second Home	154
	The Crane Wife	155
Part 5
	The Gratitude of the Crane	160
	Far Up the River	165
	Brimming Water	166
	A Crossing South of Li-chou	167
	Isaiah 38:14	167
	Spending the Night at a Mountain Temple	167
	How Crane Got His Long Legs	168
	Origami Crane Instructions	170
	The Crane Girl	173
	Onsongo and the Masai Cattle	176
	Living in the Hills	182
	Writing by George Archibald	182
	Tower of the Yellow Crane	182
	Storks and Frogs	184
	Poem by Otomo Yakamoshi	184
	The Story of the Wind	185
	Tune: 'As in a Dream: A Song' Two Lyrics - #1	190
	Autumn Evening Beside the Lake	190
	A Parable	191
Part 6
	Chirr-bookie, the Blue Crane	194
	Nurunderi's Wives	203
	Lieh Mountain	204
	Crane	204
	The Luan Family Rapids	207
	Climbing the Hill of Kami	208
	Tsun-sheng-pa-chien	208
	Crane Morning	209
	(Chung-lu) Tune: Joy All Under Heaven (P'u-t'ien lo) Sunset on the Western Hill	210
	The Turtle and the Storks and the Jackal	210
	Of Cranes and God	212
	The Girl from Flower Mountain	214
	Tune: 'Greeting the Immortal Guest' Eight Songs - #7	214
	One Hundred and One Cranes	215
	Writing by Aldo Leopold	215
	Tune: Joy of Eternal Union (Yung-yu lo) Passing the Seven-league Shallows	216
	Egrets	216
	Lament of Hsi-Chun	217
	The Geese and the Cranes	218
	Brokenleg Crane	218
	Biographies of Writers and Artists	227