Each year, the Japanese Imperial family hosts an annual celebration of poetry at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. This year, as they have in years previous, Emperor Nahrutio, Empress Masako, and Princess ...

Reading time: 4 minutes Displays were constructed to accompany poems in the contest. A painting of contestant Yoshida Momoki’s display. Reviving elements of art from the past is not something that is ...

Tokyo Poetry Week returns for its autumn edition, with readings, an open mic, a journal launch, and workshops across Tokyo.

“One Hundred Poems From Old Japan,” a new translation of the classic “Hyakunin Isshu” by Vancouver authors and translators Mike Freiling and Satsuki Takinawa. (Contributed by Mike Freiling) How does ...

A family’s experience with internment during World War II and how traditional Japanese poetry helped them through it will be presented later this month in Oak Park. Writer and editor Nancy Matsumoto ...

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa students enrolled in Professor Pier-Carlo Tommasi’s Introduction to Classical Japanese course in the Department of East Asian Languages & Literatures (EALL) this fall ...