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192 items
- Poetry & creative work
Recent Tanka, 6
Tanka with brief notes recall a father’s garden, postwar hardship, fireflies and childhood encounters, linking family memory with the act of writing.
- Poetry & creative work
Recent Tanka, 5
A collection moves between seasonal dust, railway platforms, childhood scenes and literary memory, ending with reflections on time and attachment to life.
- Poetry & creative work
Recent Tanka, 4
Tanka draw on everyday encounters, an abandoned watch, family inheritance and mortality, followed by an example of writing a response to an earlier poem.
- Poetry & creative work
Recent Tanka, 3
Poems on winter, bodily frailty, love and impermanence are accompanied by responses to Saito Mokichi and reference poems by Yosano Akiko.
- Essays
Questions and Answers on Society Activities and Literature, Parts 2–5
An archived dialogue published in April 2020 on fees, activity during the coronavirus outbreak, preserving literary works and the relationship between professional and amateur writing. Fees and meeting plans describe that period and are not current guidance.
- Essays
Are Humans Really Wise Animals?
An essay questions the wisdom implied by the name Homo sapiens and considers human conduct toward other living things and the natural world.
- Poetry & creative work
Tanka Models, 1
Examples of tanka revisit wartime childhood, family and changing seasons, accompanied by discussion of allusive composition and advice on writing from lived feeling.
- Poetry & creative work
Darkness
An English and Japanese poem brings together birth, the sound of aircraft, the prospect of death and the remembered voice of a mother.
- Poetry & creative work
Energy
English and Japanese poems explore energy as an unruly force in love and daily life, followed by another writer’s response and reflections on friendship.
- Collections
Poems of a Gathering
Tanka from several contributors evoke meetings over drinks in Yokohama and Kyoto, with poems sent from elsewhere and reflections on friendship and distance from home.
- Poetry & creative work
Tanka Drafts: Examples
Sample tanka with prose introductions demonstrate responses to another poet, reflections on writing and mortality, and remembrance of Kitahara Hakushu. An archived set of tanka examples and writing guidance published in 2020. All five poems, their prose introductions, readings and original signatures are retained, together with the opening and closing guidance. Course details and invitations to submit work are historical, not current guidance.
- Events & activity
Archived Meeting Notices and Cancellation
Archived notices include the cancellation of the meeting planned for 1 November 2020 and an announcement for a lecture on 14 September 2019. They retain the original schedules and short English overseas-participation notice, not current booking information.