Inland Sea Life in the Showa EraAmy Chavez Fumiko twittered over to the genkan with arms pressed down at her sides and hands jutting out to the sides like little wings. Wearing a simple button down blouse and gingham pants, she bent at the waist in a deep Japanese bow. Of course, I don’t warrant …Read More
Author: John Dougill (Page 19 of 45)
Anyone doing research on Japanese culture, and on Japanese religion in particular, will be familiar with Mark Schumacher’s A-Z Photo Dictionary of Buddhism and Shinto in Japan. It’s an invaluable resource, acknowledged overseas by scholars and museums. On October 4 Writers in Kyoto was fortunate to host its creator at a dinner talk when he …Read More
New Murakami article recounts memories of his late father By MARIKO NAKAMURA/ Asahi, May 10, 2019 (see here for original) Haruki Murakami attends a speaking event at La Colline Theatre National in Paris on Feb. 23. (Asahi Shimbun file photo) Influential novelist Haruki Murakami has spoken and written about many subjects in his long internationally …Read More
A life in writingHow do you make sense of the world if you’re restless by nature and always on the move? Over lunch at Kyoto University’s French restaurant, Stephen Mansfield gave an elegant and entertaining response. When he was just 15 he hitchhiked from the UK to Yugoslavia, and while still young made trips outside …Read More
P U B L I S H E R S W E E K LY J U LY 2 9 , 2 0 1 9 An Olympian Effort BY JASMINA KELEMEN Ahead of the 2020 Summer Games in Tokyo, publishers are setting their sights on Japan Travel to Japan has soared in the past five …Read More
Something for everyone at Japan Writers Conference September 27, 2019 By Kiri Falls / Japan News Staff Writer Japan may seem an unlikely place for English-language novelists, poets and essayists to ply their trade, but if the annual Japan Writers Conference is any indicator, there is no shortage of opportunities for writers based here to …Read More
A report written by Ruth Williams who calls Melbourne, Australia home. The launch took place on September 22, 2019. Every good book deserves further acknowledgement and the third Writers in Kyoto Anthology qualifies. Following the Japanese launch held in Kyoto in June, an Australian launch took place in Tasmania in late September. This was fitting …Read More
The Japan Times puts out a daily newsletter called Take 5 which takes the pick of current content and links to archived material. Item no. 5 in the Wednesday Sept 25 edition was of particular interest for WiK, as you can see in the piece below… 5. Foreign writers in Japan, a century apart In …Read More
Kyoto has long been seen as a magical locus for fantastical happenings. Not only is it the cultural heart of the nation, but it has a rich legacy of the unseen. This is after all the home of ancestral spirits, of Daimonji, of Inari and Tenjin and a host of Buddhist deities. It is a …Read More
‘Fragrant Harbor’ they called it. But Hong Kong was anything but fragrant the night Poh Seng Pang flew in. The air outside the terminal was dank, vegetative—like the smell of the Singapore River in wet season, or the streets of the Jurong Wholesale Market after a deluge. Poh found it strangely comforting. He checked his …Read More
Kyoto Writing Competition
WiK Anthologies
The Nature of Kyoto (2023)
Eds. Lisa Twaronite Sone & Robert Weis
Foreword by Pico Iyer
Structures of Kyoto (2021)
Eds: Rebecca Otowa & Karen Lee Tawarayama
Foreword by Judith Clancy
Encounters with Kyoto (2019)
Eds: Jann Williams & Ian Josh Yates
Foreword by Juliet Winters Carpenter
Echoes (2017)
Eds: John Dougill, Amy Chavez, & Mark Richardson
Preface by Alex Kerr
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