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  • Events & activity

    New Year Concert — January 8, 2025

    Originally published: Related source records and editions: 1Full English translation available

    An earlier announcement for a Kirara Kamakura concert with Jun Hayama and kyogen guests. The original notice and flyer preserve their own event details. An archived notice for the concert of 8 January 2025. A separate legacy source for the same concert. Differences from the existing article are retained as differences between versions.

  • Collections

    Romantic Poetry Forum: Autumn, November 2024

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

    A November tanka meeting record opens with reflections on the United States presidential election before discussing the submitted poems.

  • Events & activity

    Persimmon Christmas Concert — December 23

    Originally published: Prose translated; quoted poems remain in Japanese

    An announcement for the December 23, 2024 concert at Meguro Persimmon Hall, combining song and kyogen under a theme of time.

  • Poetry & creative work

    Dojokko Funakko — Video

    Composer: Jun HayamaOriginally published: Full English translation available

    An embedded performance video, with the original lyric and music credits and a December 2024 date.

  • Poetry & creative work

    The Soul of Nostradamus — Video

    Originally published: Full English translation available

    An embedded video for The Soul of Nostradamus, accompanied by an image in the original posting.

  • Essays

    The Background to a Parting

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

    A reading of Night Platform explores wartime departure, loss and the emotional setting of a farewell song.

  • Essays

    A Woman’s Life Journey

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

    An interpretation of Red Shoes Tango considers a young woman’s desire and hardship against the social setting of early postwar Japan.

  • Poetry & creative work

    Roppongi in My Youth

    Lyricist: Seishu Hamano / Composer: Jun HayamaOriginally published: Full English translation available

    Lyrics recall a hillside street, a damaged flowerpot and a white chrysanthemum through images of youth, solitude and memory.

  • Poetry & creative work

    Habutae Mochi, Ponyo Ponyo

    Composer: Jun HayamaOriginally published: Full English translation available

    Playful lyrics in three verses move through shrine, temple and village celebrations, with music credits in the original.

  • Events & activity

    A Century in Song with Jun Hayama — September 29

    Originally published: Prose translated; quoted poems remain in Japanese

    An announcement for a September 29, 2024 event celebrating Hayama’s town centenary and the 120th anniversary of Masao Koga’s birth.