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  • Poetry & creative work

    A Poetic Journey through Izumo

    Online Manyo-shu: Volume 1Originally published: Full English translation available

    A travel account accompanied by tanka follows a journey through Izumo’s historical sites, gardens and local encounters during the cherry-blossom season.

  • Essays

    Parents’ Words Are Our Eternity

    Author: Seishu HamanoOnline Manyo-shu: Volume 1Originally published: Full English translation available

    An essay considers how a parent’s words and books can continue to sustain a relationship across generations and after death.

  • Collections

    Poems Composed at Misaki Harbour

    Author: Seishu HamanoOnline Manyo-shu: Volume 1Originally published: Full English translation available

    Poems and commentary recall a boat outing at Misaki Harbour associated with Kitahara Hakushu, exploring coastal scenery, memory and parting.

  • Essays

    A Proposal to Keep International Peace

    Author: Cassy MansfieldOriginally published: English text

    An English opinion essay published in 2022 argues for economic assistance and negotiation as a response to the Russia–Ukraine war.

  • Essays

    The Elusive Imperial Refuge

    Author: Seishu HamanoOnline Manyo-shu: Volume 1Originally published: Full English translation available

    A family-history essay recalls the author’s father and his wartime industrial work, including a family account of a proposed imperial refuge whose details the essay itself says can no longer be verified.

  • Academia news

    Membership and Submission Guidelines

    Originally published: Full English translation available

    Archived membership and submission guidelines marked as revised in August 2024. The Japanese rules and existing English submission section differ in their stated screening fees; both versions are retained, and current terms have not been confirmed.

  • Essays

    The Salome Within

    Author: Seishu HamanoOnline Manyo-shu: Volume 1Originally published: Full English translation available

    An essay revisits Oscar Wilde’s Salome at different stages of the writer’s life and relates its questions of ancestry and inner conflict to the author’s own fiction.

  • Poetry & creative work

    Singing of Life

    Online Manyo-shu: Volume 1Originally published: Full English translation available

    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.

  • Essays

    Strengthening Sakai’s Higashi Ward through Local Identity

    Author: Seishu HamanoOnline Manyo-shu: Volume 1Originally published: Full English translation available

    Material for a May 2021 symposium proposes distinctive development for Sakai’s Higashi Ward and discusses decentralisation and cooperation between residents and local government.

  • Essays

    A Revered Teacher and His Times, Part 3

    Online Manyo-shu: Volume 1Originally published: Full English translation available

    The concluding essay recalls Takao Suzuki and other teachers at Keio, considering how knowledge becomes active thought through reading, discussion and intellectual discipline.

  • Academia news

    Regulations

    Originally published: Full English translation available

    Archived nine-part regulations published in 2021, with existing English membership and rules passages. This version is retained separately from the 22-article regulations; current applicability and membership terms have not been confirmed.