Trilingual renshi chronicle 13 August 2015 March 5, 2015: Listening to the BBC World News about ISIS at home in Munich, my mind drifts … |
The thrill and joy of ‘tsukeai’ 13 August 2015 In the practice of traditional renku, from which the modern renshi originated, … |
Killing the Poet, Saving the Poetry 28 April 2013 Shuntaro Tanikawa stopped writing poetry around 1996. He continued to write light verses for … |
Recalcitrant Words 3 September 2012 In his ‘Self Introduction’ (Poetry International Japan March 2012) Tanikawa lists a … |
The Poetry of the Anti-Poetic 3 September 2012 In this second Poetry International issue featuring Shuntaro Tanikawa, we include prose poems … |
Miyoshi versus me 15 April 2010 It goes without saying that literature is hard to translate. Most writers choose their words with … |
Poetry as Love, a reading of Kiyoko Nagase 1 October 2009 Kiyoko Nagase's life spanned most of the twentieth century, coinciding with some of the most … |
Narrative Poems by Wakako Kaku 1 April 2009 Body Becoming Zero by Wakako Kaku, from which the narrative poems presented here are taken, … |
Reading Nectar’s root as far as its Resonance reaches 1 October 2008 In the beginningWhen I first opened Nectar’s root as far as its Resonance reaches by Mari … |
Mitsuharu Kaneko (1895–1975) 1 August 2008 Born the third son of Ohga Kazukichi and Ryo, and named Yasukazu, Kaneko Mitsuharu was … |
Kiji Kutani - A Poet's Portrait of Himself 1 October 2007 I was born in 1984 in Fukuya City, in the Saitama Prefecture neighboring Tokyo, the son of a … |
Shuntaro Tanikawa reads Yukio Tsuji 1 January 2007 Poet Shuntaro Tanikawa undertakes a line-by-line study of two of Yukio Tsuji's poems, and … |
A Brief Biography of Hiroshi Kawasaki 1 July 2006 Hiroshi Kawasaki was born in Tokyo in 1930, the son of Kohei Kawasaki who worked for a newspaper … |
Welcome to Japanese poetry - April 2006 1 April 2006 For this second issue of the Japanese domain, we are proud to present an essay by Makoto Ooka, one … |