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  • Poetry & creative work

    Tears of Kannon

    Lyricist: Kahori Tachibana / Composer: Jun HayamaPublished on this site: Full English translation available

    Japanese lyrics by Kahori Tachibana, with music by Jun Hayama. The page brings together a live performance video, score images and a handwritten lyric sheet.

  • Poetry & creative work

    Nagisa Bridge Elegy

    Lyricist: Kahori Tachibana / Composer: Jun HayamaPublished on this site: Full English translation available

    Japanese lyrics by Kahori Tachibana, with music by Jun Hayama, presented alongside a live performance video.

  • Poetry & creative work

    The Soul of Nostradamus — Video

    Originally published: Full English translation available

    An embedded video for The Soul of Nostradamus, accompanied by an image in the original posting.

  • Essays

    A Woman’s Life Journey

    Online Manyo-shu: Volume 1Originally published: Prose translated; quoted poems remain in Japanese

    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

    Once I Catch You, I Won’t Let Go

    Originally published: Full English translation available

    Lyrics stage a lovers’ exchange around a secret meeting place, jealousy and the uncertain future of their relationship.

  • Poetry & creative work

    The White Chrysanthemum: A Fragrant Life

    Originally published: Full English translation available

    A poem links a white chrysanthemum with remembered youth, a singer’s love and the solitude of passing years.

  • Poetry & creative work

    Fragments of Ugetsu: The Kutsuki Chapter

    Online Manyo-shu: Volume 1Originally published: Full English translation available

    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

    Online Manyo-shu: Volume 1Originally published: Prose translated; quoted poems remain in Japanese

    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.