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Volume 2 — Living in This World
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- Poetry & creative work
Cruel Today
Seishu Hamano addresses the present through memories of yesterday and questions for tomorrow. The existing English and Japanese versions are arranged in corresponding stanzas.
- Poetry & creative work
Tanka Drafts: Parks, Memory and the Pandemic
A set of tanka with brief prose introductions finds subjects in a park, an old tree, a crow, the scent of jasmine and a sports ground closed during the pandemic.
- 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.
- Poetry & creative work
Tanka Drafts: A Journey through Shonai
Tanka and prose recall a visit to Shonai’s coastal Buddhist images and sacred mountains, followed by reflections on friendship, belonging and the value of writing poetry.
- Poetry & creative work
Tanka Models, 1
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
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.
- Collections
Poems of a Gathering
Tanka from several contributors evoke meetings over drinks in Yokohama and Kyoto, with poems sent from elsewhere and reflections on friendship and distance from home.