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So Happy to See Cherry Blossoms: Haiku from the Year of the Great Earthquake and Tsunami

Madoka Mayuzumi, Japan’s leading haiku poet and winner of the Kadokawa Haiku Prize and Yamamoto Kenkichi Literature Prize, has toured the areas of Japan devastated in 2011 by the earthquake, tsunami, and subsequent nuclear reactor meltdowns, interviewed many of the survivors, and gathered their haiku, which she offers here, with commentary, as a tribute to the spirit of survival of these tenacious folk.
 
  • Publisher: Red Moon Press

  • ISBN: 978-1-936848-30-0

  • Pages: 120 

  • Size: 5.5" x 8"

  • Binding: perfect softbound

Haikus du temps présent
-Publication in french- 


A l’automne, les fleurs des champs paraissent d’autant plus belles que l’on songe déjà à l’hiver, tout comme le soleil paraît d’un éclat plus magnifique encore au moment où il va disparaître à l’horizon. Telles sont les réflexions que je me suis faites en me promenant dans cet immense pré fleuri, où je ne distinguais ni entrée ni sortie. J’avais l’impression qu’il se poursuivait à l’infini. N’en va-t-il pas de même de nos vies ?

  • Paperback

  • Publisher: PICQUIER

  • Language: French

  • ISBN-10: 2809703183

  • ISBN-13: 978-2809703184

  • Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 0.7 x 5.2 inches

Summer on the B-Side
(B-men no natsu)
-Publication in japanese-

Madoka Mayuzumi came to prominence in 1994 when her haiku collection “Summer on the B-side” (B-men no Natsu) won the Kadokawa Prize.

 

  • Publisher: Kadokawa Shoten (1994-09)

  • Book (209 pages)

  • ISBN-10: 4048714635

  • ISBN-13: 9784048714631

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English translations

 

  • So Happy to see Cherry Blossoms: Haiku from the Year of the Great Earthquake and Tsunami. Ed. Madoka Mayuzumi. Tr. Hiroaki and Nancy Sato - Winchester VA: Red Moon Press, 2014.

  • Far Beyond the Field: Haiku by Japanese Women. Ed. Makoto Ueda - Columbia University Press, 2003.

  • Wagashi and the Japanese Tradition of Hospitality - Nippon.com, 2013.

  • Haiku: The Heart of Japan in 17 Syllables - The Tokyo Foundation, 2010.

 

 

Japanese publications

 

Haiku collections

 

  • B-men no Natsu (B-side Summer) - Kadokawa Shoten, 1994.

  • Hanagoromo (Cherry Blossom Viewing Kimono) - PHP Institute, 1997.

  • Kuchizuke (Kiss) - Kadokawa Haruki Jimusho, 1999.

  • Kyoto no Koi (Kyoto Romance) - PHP Institute, 2001.

  • Wasuregai (The Forgetting Shell) - Bungaku no Mori, 2006.

  • Teppen no Hoshi (Star on the Top of the Christmas Tree) - Hon-ami Shoten, 2012

 

 

Essays and Travelogues

 

  • Hoshi no Tabibito (The Pilgrim to Compostela) - Kobunsha, 2000.Saranheyo (In Love with Korea) - Jitsugyo no Nihonsha, 2003.

  • Anata e no Ikku (A Haiku for You) - Basilico, 2008.

  • Sono Shunkan: Sousaku no Gemba, Hirameki no Toki (Instantaneous inspiration and the process of creativity) - Kadokawa Gakugei Shuppan, 2010.

  • Hikizan no Bigaku: Mono Iwanu Kuni no Bunkaryoku (Subtraction: The Japanese Culture of Silence) - The Mainichi Shinbun, 2012.

  • Uta, Hitohira (A Petal of Poetry) – Shin-nihon Shuppansha, 2014.

 

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