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  • Collections

    Romantic Poetry Forum: Summer, June 2021

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

    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.

  • Poetry & creative work

    Tanka Models, 1

    Author: Seishu HamanoOnline Manyo-shu: Volume 1 / Volume 2 / Volume 3Originally published: Full English translation available

    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

    Author: Seishu HamanoOnline Manyo-shu: Volume 1 / Volume 2 / Volume 3Originally published: Prose translated; quoted poems remain in Japanese

    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.