NHK VIDEO: 17 Syllables Unite the World: Haiku in the Pandemic
NHK official website link: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ondemand/video/2083019/ The power of the tiny 17-syllable poems called...
LE PELERIN: De Compostelle à Shikoku, elle arpente les sentiers du monde pour écrire des poèmes
https://www.lepelerin.com/pelerinages/portraits-de-marcheurs/de-compostelle-a-shikoku-elle-arpente-les-sentiers-du-monde-pour-ecrire-des-...
Japan's Culture of Silence - Choral concert held at Merkin Concert Hall in New York
Haiku poet Madoka Mayuzumi presented the following lecture at the "Kokoro: The Heart of Japan" public symposium and choral concert, held...
Writing Fukushima #13 Ukedo Elementary School: Another Victim of the Disaster
The schoolhouse and their student days — mirages shimmering in heat haze (Manabiya mo manabishi hibi mo kagiroeru) ※kagerō: "shimmering...
Writing Fukushima #12 Mt. Bandai in Aizu, the Heart's Home
For the graves and Bodhisattvas of the fields the mountain glows with leaves (nojizō ni nobaka ni yama no yosōeru) ※yama yosōu/yama no...
Writing Fukushima #8 The Pickled Herring Pots of Aizu Misato Town
Amber-colored sky glows before it darkens — the mountain pepper buds (ameiro ni sora kurenazumu sanshō no me) ※sanshō no me: A spring...
Writing Fukushima #7 Soma: Folk Songs as the Ties That Bind
The utagaki mountain — where winds are shining, and the breeze shines too (utagaki no yama kaze hikaru kaze hikaru) ※kaze hikaru (the...
Writing Fukushima #6 Showa Village: The Yearly Scolding of the Fruit Trees
The light of the moon streams down unending on the wounded tree (semerareshi ki ni gekkō no furiyamazu） "Will you bear fruit, will you...
Writing Fukushima #5 Onahama Harbor, Iwaki City: Hopes for Recovery
Onahama Harbor — a carp streamer, tail leaping in the wind (onahama no kaze ni o wo hane koi-nobori) ※koi-nobori (carp streamer): A...
Writing Fukushima #4 Iitate Village: A New Site of Poetry
Autumn in the air — such love for a mother in that poem, sun warmed (mi ni shimu ya hahakoi no ku ni hi no sashite) ※mi ni shimu: The...
