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231 items
- 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 Drafts: A Journey through Shonai
Tanka and prose recall a visit to Shonai’s coastal Buddhist images and sacred mountains, followed by reflections on friendship, belonging and the value of writing poetry.
- Poetry & creative work
Recommended Tanka, 1
An introduction to poems by a priest of Daigoji reflects on doubt, affection, loneliness and death, with commentary and response poems from his student.
- 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.
- Essays
A Model Essay: Two Mountain-Path Poems
An account of a classroom comparison between haiku by Basho and Santoka considers personal response, literary authority and the value of reading with one’s own sensibility.
- Poetry & creative work
Snow in the Wilderness
A work of fiction opens with a woman’s return to Muro and follows memories of marriage and relationships through encounters with people, places and works of art.
- 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.
- Essays
Memories of Hanakage
A recollection prompted by the song Hanakage traces an elder sister’s work within a large family, her marriage and the pain of separation and loss.
- 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.
- Poetry & creative work
Tanka Draft: Moss and the Visitor
A response poem evokes a moss-cleared threshold, a visitor and a sleeve reflected in water. A separately published tanka source from the Japanese website. Its original introduction, poem, readings and signature are preserved.