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231 items
- Collections
Romantic Poetry Forum: Summer, June 2025
A record of the June tanka gathering, with reflections on the summer solstice and poems about everyday encounters.
- Collections
Romantic Poetry Forum: Spring, May 2025
A May tanka meeting record considers the traditional month name Satsuki and the images and sounds that make seasonal words appealing.
- Collections
Romantic Poetry Forum: Spring, April 2025
A record of an April tanka gathering, opening with reflections on the Osaka Expo and its promise before turning to members’ poems.
- Essays
Ryokan’s Poems of Affection
An essay tracing Ryokan’s life as a monk and poet and examining poems of affection and exchange.
- Collections
Romantic Poetry Forum: Autumn, November 2024
A November tanka meeting record opens with reflections on the United States presidential election before discussing the submitted poems.
- 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.
- Events & activity
A Century in Song with Jun Hayama — September 29
An announcement for a September 29, 2024 event celebrating Hayama’s town centenary and the 120th anniversary of Masao Koga’s birth.
- Events & activity
Masao Koga 120th Birth Anniversary Concert — July 16
An announcement for Jun Hayama’s July 16, 2024 concert at Meguro Persimmon Hall.
- Events & activity
Koga Melodies and Their Times — June 25
An announcement for Jun Hayama’s June 25, 2024 concert at Sazanami Hall in Zushi.
- 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.