Nanao Sakaki was a Japanese poet and wanderer, who has been an inspiration to poets, artists and musicians around the world for the past half century.
In his foreword to Sakaki's collection, How to Life on Planet Earth, his fellow poet Gary Snyder (whose work you can hear in Episode 24 and Episode 116 of this podcast) wrote that he was known as "a uniquely free and bold-spirited wanderer, occasional river or mountain activist, singer and chanter, and internationally published poet."
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Ep. 180: "If You Have Time" by Nanao Sakaki