"I Saw A Pale Horse" and Selected Poems from "Diary of a Vagabond"Hayashi Fumiko, one of the most popular prose writers of the Showa era, began writing as a down and out poet wandering the streets of 1920s Tokyo. In these translations of her first poetry collection, I Saw a Pale Horse (Aouma wo mitari) and Selected Poems from Diary of a Vagabond (Hrki), Fumiko's literary origins are colorfully revealed. Little known in the west, these early poetic texts focus on Fumiko's unconventional early life, and her