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- 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
Two Macbeths: Ambition and Frustration in Japan and Britain
An essay compares Shakespeare’s Macbeth with Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood to consider ambition, marriage and frustrated hopes in modern Japanese society.
- Collections
Online Aphorism Collection
A historical collection combining an invitation, examples and commentaries dated 19 April 2020 with three signed aphorisms and commentaries dated 20 April. The submission calls and contemporary observations are preserved as source material.
- Essays
Questions and Answers on Society Activities and Literature, Parts 2–5
An archived dialogue published in April 2020 on fees, activity during the coronavirus outbreak, preserving literary works and the relationship between professional and amateur writing. Fees and meeting plans describe that period and are not current guidance.
- Essays
Questions and Answers on Romanticism, Part 1
A historical dialogue published in April 2020 exploring Romanticism through questions about pleasure, compassion, education and life under difficult circumstances. It is followed by parts 2–5 of the series.
- 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.
- Essays
Are Humans Really Wise Animals?
An essay questions the wisdom implied by the name Homo sapiens and considers human conduct toward other living things and the natural world.