For the inauguration meeting of Writers in Kyoto, held in late March, we invited Any Chavez to enlighten us on her experience as a journalist in Japan. She is well-known amongst foreign writers here, though not many of us have ever met her as she lives on a tiny island in the Inland Sea. With …Read More
Author: John Dougill (Page 44 of 45)
Garden designer Marc Keane is known for his lucid writing about Japanese nature and culture. He lived for 18 years in Kyoto, working first as a research fellow at Kyoto University and later as a landscape architect with his own design office in downtown Kyoto. He taught at the Kyoto University of Arts and Design, …Read More
The Back Country (1968) by Gary Snyder is an autobiographical collection of poems, covering his youth when he worked as a logger and forest ranger, followed by poems written between 1956 and 1964 in Japan and India, then a section on his return to the USA where he considers the West through Asian eyes. The …Read More
The following extracts are taken from Kyoto Journal No. 24, ‘Of All the Wild Sakura’. They comprise notes from Gary Snyder’s Kyoto journals between March and June 1959. (With thanks to Ken Rodgers.) Click here for the full Gary Snyder article, which is much longer and has non-Kyoto entries too. ************************* Monday Rinko-in Preparing to …Read More
Cinnamon Man: Portrait of a Reprobate Mutt A Rogue an Outlaw a Rake A Poetry Man a Story Listener A Tuneful TalkStory Sensualist
Eric Johnston is a well-known figure from his writings in The Japan Times and his involvement in a wide range of Kansai activities. He’s used to interviewing people of course, but here WiK reverses the tables and asks him some questions for a change… What do you write about? As a full-time reporter based in …Read More
The thoughts of Kyoto go out to the people of Kathmandu at this time of tragedy in a poem connecting the two cities by A.J. Dickinson… here then gone here gliding low over wild duck river a grey imperial crane lands stands looks takes wing again
Chieko discovered the violets flowering on the trunk of the old maple tree. ‘Ah. They’ve bloomed again this year,’ she said as she encountered the gentleness of spring. The maple was rather large for such a small garden in the city; the trunk was larger around than Chieko’s waist. But this old tree with its …Read More
David Duff, on women and cats
Q&A with David Duff
Opening event with Amy Chavez
with about 30 people
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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