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105 items
- 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
A Dialogue on Sharing Japanese Sensibility with the World
A conversation between Takao Suzuki and Seishu Hamano examines poetry, language and cultural understanding in relation to the Online Manyoshu’s purpose.
- 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.