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Volume 1 — After the Fighting

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  • Essays

    Memories of Hanakage

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

    A recollection prompted by the song Hanakage traces an elder sister’s work within a large family, her marriage and the pain of separation and loss.

  • Poetry & creative work

    Tanka Drafts: Examples

    Online Manyo-shu: Volume 1Originally published: Related source records and editions: 4Full English translation available

    Sample tanka with prose introductions demonstrate responses to another poet, reflections on writing and mortality, and remembrance of Kitahara Hakushu. An archived set of tanka examples and writing guidance published in 2020. All five poems, their prose introductions, readings and original signatures are retained, together with the opening and closing guidance. Course details and invitations to submit work are historical, not current guidance.

  • Poetry & creative work

    Tanka Draft: Moss and the Visitor

    Online Manyo-shu: Volume 1Originally published: Related source records and editions: 4Full English translation available

    A response poem evokes a moss-cleared threshold, a visitor and a sleeve reflected in water. A separately published tanka source from the Japanese website. Its original introduction, poem, readings and signature are preserved.

  • Poetry & creative work

    Tanka Draft: The Writer’s Departure

    Online Manyo-shu: Volume 1Originally published: Related source records and editions: 4Full English translation available

    A tanka imagines the writer’s pen and books remaining together until the day their owner must depart. A separately published tanka source from the Japanese website. Its original introduction, poem, readings and signature are preserved.

  • Poetry & creative work

    Tanka Draft: Why Live and Write?

    Online Manyo-shu: Volume 1Originally published: Related source records and editions: 4Full English translation available

    A tanka repeatedly asks why one eats, writes, lives and dies, leaving the questions open. A separately published tanka source from the Japanese website. Its original introduction, poem, readings and signature are preserved.

  • Poetry & creative work

    Tanka Draft: Rain on Jogashima

    Online Manyo-shu: Volume 1Originally published: Related source records and editions: 4Full English translation available

    A tanka and its introduction imagine speaking with Kitahara Hakushu’s spirit during a visit to Jogashima, as falling raindrops mark the passing years. A separately published tanka source from the Japanese website. Its original introduction, poem, readings and signature are preserved.