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Presenting Robert Yellin
Ode to Japanese Pottery was published first in Japanese in 1995 by the now defunct 光芸出版 and later in English in 2004 by Coherence. I wrote this book for a Japanese audience when I was…
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Basho on Kyoto
Country folks about rice Sing their poems – Like Kyoto people do 1688, tr. Saito and Nelson (satobito wa ine ni utayomu miyako kana) Mt Arashi Bamboo groves luxuriant – Furrows of the wind. 1691,…
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Issa on Kyoto
The following listing was compiled by David G. Lanoue and taken from http://haikuguy.com/issa/search.php?keywords=Kyoto&year Copyright belongs to D.G. Lanoue 78 haiku out of Issa’s 10,000 are set in Kyoto year unknown .洛陽やちとも曲らぬ初時雨 rakuyô ya chito…
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Shiki and Buson on Kyoto
The following are taken from Gabi Greve’s shrine and temples blogspot http://japanshrinestemples.blogspot.jp/2013/04/masaoka-shiki-visiting.html . Chion-in 知恩院 Kyoto . 祗園清水智恩院 Gion Kiyomizu Chion-In with 6 haiku . Nanzenji 南禅寺 Nanzen-Ji in Kyoto . 鶯やしんかんとして南禅寺 – uguisu…
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Kyoto places in haiku
The following listing is taken with permission from Gabi Greve’s blogspot on Kyoto the Flower Capital – “Hana no Miyako. Explanation “capital of blossoms“, hana no miyako 花の都 Kyoto in cherry blossoms, Kyoto during the…
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The double life of Marianne Kimura
Leading a Strange Shakespearean Double Life I suppose that the most unusual feature of my life as a writer is that it is divided into two, complete with two different names, identities and writing styles.…
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Ichigensan extract
David Zoppetti’s novel Ichigensan was first published in Japanese and won the Subaru Prize for Literature in 1996. Later it was made into a film starring Edward Atterton, and in 2011 the English translation by…
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Ruth Fuller Sasaki
‘Mother of American Buddhism’; the first woman to be named abbot of a Zen subtemple; the first foreigner to become abbot of a subtemple; the compiler of important translations; mentor of Burton Watson, Philip Yampolsky…
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Margaret Chula’s haiku
Margaret Chula’s Grinding My Ink (1993) is a collection of haiku mostly written while living in Kyoto in the 1980s and 1990s. It won the Haiku Society of America Book Award. ‘Nearly all my memories of…
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David Joiner at the Gael (Oct 11)
David Joiner was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. He attended Earlham College and majored in Japanese Studies. During his junior year he made his first trip to Asia – a five-month study abroad program…
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Authors Live in Kobe, Oct 25
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Basho’s links with Kyoto
Matsuo Basho (1644-94) is hardly associated with Kyoto. With the Deep North, of course. And with Edo too, where he had his home. Indeed, he took his pen-name from the plantain-tree (basho) which stood outside…
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Duff on Japanese cats
At our upcoming WiK event on October 11, we’ll be hosting two Davids – one a non-fiction writer and the other a novelist. Information about David Joiner has already appeared; now we have a sneak…
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Jeff Robbins, compiler of Basho
Interview with Jeff Robbins, compiler of the Basho4Now Trilogy *************************** Why “Basho4Now”? This is not Basho4Scholars, but rather Basho for EVERYONE — not knowledge of Japanese literature, but rather knowledge of humanity will help you…
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Robert Brady’s The Big Elsewhere
From our friends at Kyoto Journal comes news of an exciting new publication… Robert Brady, one of the founders of KJ, has contributed to almost every issue — his voice and the magazine’s co-evolving over…
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Basho’s Shijo haibun
Cooling off by the River at Shijo (1690) By Jeff Robbins, Compiler of the Basho4Now Trilogy The custom Basho describes in the following haibun and haiku began in the late 12th century as…
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Hailstone Haiku Circle
Hailstone Haiku Circle (by Stephen Gill) Under the boots of marching soldiers sparkle of new-green grass – (Keiko Yurugi, from Hailstones, 2001) Hailstone Haiku Circle was founded by Stephen Gill (haiku name ‘Tito’) in…
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Kyoto Encounters (ed.Rimer)
A literary stroll through the four seasons – Kyoto Encounters (1995) has to be one of the most attractive English-language collections ever produced about the city. Edited by J. Thomas Rimer (Professor Emeritus at Pittsburgh…
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Eric Johnston offers advice
Eric Johnston of The Japan Times Osaka office offers some basic advice to writers seeking to get published in his newspaper and Japan-based publications in general. Do you get a lot of inquiries from people…
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Amy Chavez on reader comments
What I’ve learned from reader comments by Amy Chavez With most publications having at least a part of their content online these days, it’s only a matter of time when as a writer, you’ll have…
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Michael Lambe (Mr. Deep Kyoto)
Michael Lambe: Michael Lambe is best known as the writer of Deep Kyoto blog, an ongoing online guide to finding fun and sustenance in Japan’s ancient capital. More recently he has been busy working for…
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WiK winter event report
A talk on collecting and cataloguing ceramics in a leading pottery gallery, complemented by shakuhachi and saké – WiK’s winter event was an early solstice celebration and the perfect launch into the festive season. It…
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Haiku group outing
On December 12, the Hailstone Haiku Circle in conjunction with WiK set out on a hike into Kyoto’s Imperial Past, including Emperor Meiji’s burial mound (above), with the intention of culling a few haiku poems…
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