Start with high-confidence japanese poetry books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each
Peter Macmillan
Moon Woke Me Up Nine Times
Matsuo Basho
Intro to Haiku
Harold Gould Henderson
Ninety-five Nights of Listening
Malinda Markham
The Ink Dark Moon
Ono no Komachi, Izumi Shikibu
Haiku
Ornella Civardi
Bathhouse and Other Tanka
Ishii Tatsuhiko
The Haiku Handbook #25th Anniversary Edition
William J. Higginson, Penny Harter
Cat Town
Sakutaro Hagiwara, Hiroaki Sato
The Pocket Haiku
Basho, Buson
Salad Anniversary
Machi Tawara
A White Tea Bowl
Mitsu Suzuki, Kazuaki Tanahashi
A Beginner's Guide to Japanese Haiku
William Scott Wilson
Soseki Natsume's Collected Haiku
Soseki Natsume
The Poetry of Chiyo-ni
Patricia Donegan, Yoshie Ishibashi
