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- Poetry & creative work
Recent Tanka, 11
A collection pairs poems received from another poet with responses, then turns to hometown ties, writing, mortality and the memory of Kitahara Hakushu.
- Poetry & creative work
Recent Tanka, 10
Tanka on ageing, familiar possessions and family memory appear alongside responses to Ishikawa Takuboku’s poems of illness and hometown longing.
- Poetry & creative work
Recent Tanka, 9
A collection with prose notes reflects on friendship, illness, writing and return visits to places connected with family and personal history.
- Poetry & creative work
Recent Tanka, 8
A reworking of poems from the preceding instalment revisits diaries, family photographs and childhood places, with commentary on loss and historical poverty.
- Poetry & creative work
Recent Tanka, 7
Tanka and commentary consider diaries as records for later generations, childhood by a river and historical suffering, including responses to poems by Maeda Yugure.
- 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
Two Macbeths: Ambition and Frustration in Japan and Britain
An essay compares Shakespeare’s Macbeth with Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood to consider ambition, marriage and frustrated hopes in modern Japanese society.
- 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.