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39 items
- Essays
Reflections on Romanticism
An essay on romanticism, creativity and the power of language, including poems by Emily Dickinson in English alongside the Japanese translations retained from the original article.
- Essays
Today Is Finally Here…
A message to Jun Hayama ahead of a Bon dance appearance, accompanied by four tanka on song, family and memory.
- Essays
The Background to a Parting
A reading of Night Platform explores wartime departure, loss and the emotional setting of a farewell song.
- Essays
A Woman’s Life Journey
An interpretation of Red Shoes Tango considers a young woman’s desire and hardship against the social setting of early postwar Japan.
- Poetry & creative work
Fragments of Ugetsu: The Kutsuki Chapter
A prose work draws on Ugetsu, classical ghost stories and the landscape around northern Lake Biwa to explore love, resentment and lives disrupted by turmoil.
- Essays
Hot-Spring Town Elegy and the Japanese after the War
An interpretation of Hot-Spring Town Elegy relates its longing and separation to the circumstances of postwar Japan and the continuing performance of Koga’s songs.
- Essays
Songs of Heartbreak: Noriko Awaya and Jun Hayama
An essay reflects on the emotional delivery of songs of parting, combining memories of Noriko Awaya with observations of Jun Hayama’s performances.
- Essays
Koga Melodies and Romantic Poetry, Part 2
An essay on Life’s Tree-Lined Road interprets its separated siblings through poverty, migration and the relationship between lyricist and composer.
- Essays
Three Reflections on the Bedchamber
An essay examines the bedchamber as a setting for longing, calculation and self-reflection, beginning with the mother of Michitsuna and The Kagero Diary.
- Poetry & creative work
Our Love Forever
An English love song assigns voices to female and male singers, moving from fading affection toward renewed hope. A Japanese note explains its musical inspiration.
- Essays
A New Voice in Romantic Poetry
Seishu Hamano introduces a contemporary poet through discussion and selected works, considering the relationship between suffering and poetic expression.
- Essays
Tracing the Origins of the Amago Clan of Izumo
A historical essay prepared for the society’s twenty-fifth poetry journey traces the Amago clan from Omi to Izumo and examines episodes in its struggle for survival.