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- Collections
Romantic Poetry Forum: Autumn, October 2021
An October 2021 gathering connects autumn reading with poetry composition and memories of school reunions during the pandemic.
- Essays
The Salome Within
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.
- Essays
For Kawachi Is Our Homeland
A brief introduction links to a Japanese biographical work about Seishu Hamano, associated with his origins in Sakai.
- Collections
Romantic Poetry Forum: Summer, July 2021
A July 2021 gathering reflects on language shaped by the pandemic and discusses poems about bereavement, travel and masked commuters.
- Poetry & creative work
Singing of Life
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.
- Collections
Romantic Poetry Forum: Summer, June 2021
A June 2021 gathering reflects on words for the rainy season and discusses tanka in relation to everyday experience and memories of war and peace.
- Collections
Romantic Poetry Forum: Spring, April 2021
An April 2021 gathering considers the many Japanese names for spring rain and poems shaped by weather, observation and renewed attendance during the pandemic.
- Collections
Romantic Poetry Forum: Spring, March 2021
A March 2021 account brings together a poetry gathering, cherry-blossom viewing and a walk through local historical sites, with photographs of the outing.
- Collections
Romantic Poetry Forum: Winter, February 2021
A February 2021 gathering explores the movement toward spring through poems about family, a grandchild’s calligraphy and memories of daily walks with a dog.
- Collections
Miura Tanka Society: January 2021
An account of a January 2021 gathering introduces the Miura Tanka Society and discusses poems of the New Year, family and daily life during the pandemic.
- Academia news
Seishu Hamano on Snow Disruption as a Man-Made Disaster
A reposted December 2020 news report presents Seishu Hamano’s criticism of highway snow preparedness following a major traffic standstill on the Kan-Etsu Expressway.
- Collections
Miura Tanka Society: November 2020
An account of a November 2020 gathering combines discussion of members’ tanka with a lecture on Yamakawa Tomiko and reflections on Kitahara Hakushu’s connection with Misaki.