Contents
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Dedication:
To my beloved parents, grandparents, children and grandchildren
Epigraph:
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
William Shakespeare
Proloque by author
Introduction
Foreword by Dr. Ian Probstein, Associate Professor of English at Touro College
In the Wake of Basho. Bestiary in the Rock Garden
by Haruki Okami
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Notes to Introduction
Bestiary Index
Notes to Rocks
Notes of the co-translator Mrs. Elena Sheverdinova
Acknowledgement
The writing of this book has been a wonderfully transformative yet sometimes difficult experience for me personally. It has been an undertaking that I could not have completed without the help and support of number of important and in some instances "pivotal people" in my life. I especially thank my Sensei Richard Wagener - Chief Instructor of Palm Beach Aikikai and my fellow aikidokas, Mrs. Elena Sheverdinova for her exeptional help by translation of my poetry into English, Mrs. Charlotte Taylor for her meticulous proof-reading and Dr. Ian Probstein- Associate Professor of English at Touro College for his foreword and outstanding poetry and literature expertise.