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  • Poetry & creative work

    Singing of Life

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

    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.

  • Essays

    A Record of My Father and Mother

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

    A family memoir traces the parents’ meeting in Hoshino, life connected with coal mining and the writer’s later return to live with his mother.