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- Poetry & creative work
The Traveller from the Deep Forest
A poem portrays a wounded, withdrawn figure through forest imagery and imagines a journey toward hope that must begin with that person’s own choice.
- Poetry & creative work
The Heart Is Weather
A poem compares changing moods to weather and considers how difficult experiences may eventually become nourishment for life.
- Poetry & creative work
The Heart Is a Lonely Traveller
An introduction to a contemporary poet brings poems together with literary commentary on loneliness, emotional experience and the impulse to write.
- Poetry & creative work
A Poetic Journey through Izumo
A travel account accompanied by tanka follows a journey through Izumo’s historical sites, gardens and local encounters during the cherry-blossom season.
- Poetry & creative work
Singing of Life
Tanka with prose recollections bring together a mother’s flower-arranging practice, the landscapes of Hoshino, life in coal-mining communities and remembrance of a relative who worked in education.
- Poetry & creative work
Mercy of Our Hometown
A memorial poem addresses a departed friend and finds enduring companionship in the shared customs, music and memories of their Kawachi hometown.
- Poetry & creative work
Reciting Poetry with Yamakawa Tomiko
An essay responds to Yamakawa Tomiko’s tanka with new poems and commentary on solitude, love and awareness of one’s own existence.
- Poetry & creative work
Tanka Drafts: Parks, Memory and the Pandemic
A set of tanka with brief prose introductions finds subjects in a park, an old tree, a crow, the scent of jasmine and a sports ground closed during the pandemic.
- Poetry & creative work
Reflections on Kojo no Tsuki
The opening essay in a song series responds to Kojo no Tsuki through its images of ruined castles, changing fortunes and the passage of time.
- Poetry & creative work
Recent Tanka, 11
A collection pairs poems received from another poet with responses, then turns to hometown ties, writing, mortality and the memory of Kitahara Hakushu.
- Poetry & creative work
Recent Tanka, 10
Tanka on ageing, familiar possessions and family memory appear alongside responses to Ishikawa Takuboku’s poems of illness and hometown longing.
- Poetry & creative work
Recent Tanka, 9
A collection with prose notes reflects on friendship, illness, writing and return visits to places connected with family and personal history.