This volume presents a wide sample of the best Japanese Zen Buddhist poetry of the last millennium. Throughout its pages we find texts imbued with the thought of one of the most refined cultures in the world. José Carte brings together a wide range of works by Zen monks, poets and philosophers with their corresponding biographical notes and succinct explanations that give meaning to this oriental imaginary profusely nourished by concepts such as Ku [sunyata in Sanskrit] or daruma [dharma in Sanskrit]. This anthology offers texts written during the Heain dynasty (794 to 1185), passing through the origins of the Soto school led by Dogen, the Rinzai tradition and the School of the Five Mountains, among others. The result is a wide selection that includes compositions by authors who lived ten centuries ago to others of the twentieth century, offering a historical retrospective of the best Japanese poetry enriched with explanatory comments and in many cases with the phonetic transcription of the poems in their original language, which allows us to know how they sound in their recitation. In this book we find beautiful compositions in various traditional stanzas (including haiku), as well as the translation of poems by great Zen masters such as Basho, Issa, Takahashi or Kodo Sawaki. The edition has been rigorously revised by Professor Keiko Suzuki.