Jan 4, 2024 ... It is with great sadness that I write with news of the death of Professor Herman Ooms, professor emeritus of Japanese history at UCLA. I had ...

This essay was first published in Jane Reichhold's Lynx journal for collaborative writing in Japanese forms. ... death in Japan” (236). Mishima Yukio and ...

... Death Haiku in Japanese and English”. The tradition of writing a jisei, or death haiku, has a long history in Japan, and a growing history in English. This ...

Over time, the uta progressed into the waka, which means “Japanese song”—poems written specifically and only in the Japanese language. ... death. Then he ...

Like the fear of the word “four” in China hinging on the similarity, in its pronunciation, to the Chinese word for “death,” the Japanese similarly tuck in their ...

Best known in Japan for her fiction, she also wrote four books of tanka. ... Her fame as a tanka poet came barely before she died. This is a sample poem ...

Even the notion of having three lines isn't Japanese (they write haiku in ... death' are interesting and beautiful lines. Although sometimes it's good ...

As death approached, the Japanese haiku master Basho—after a lifetime of practice—said he'd only managed to write a handful of genuine haiku. When a haiku ...

May 24, 2020 ... A tragedy. This poor young woman. While we don't know for sure how she died, the implications are clear. Being bombarded with violent, vicious ...

... death of Bashō (1644–1694), Japan's foremost practitioner of haiku. This ... He wrote in the preface to his four-volume exploration of Japanese haiku ...

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It was at the newspaper that Yamamoto met many other Japanese Americans that would become invaluable friends and distinguished writers. She wrote a regularly ...

I would like to serialise my narratives in World Haiku Review about the one hundred Japanese haijin whom I shall choose at random and talk about.

This haiku is about life and death, or about death itself with life as a backdrop. ... This haiku the author wrote in Japan where he encountered haiku for the ...

Feb 25, 2021 ... Deaths in Japan fell for the first time in more than a decade, a ... The effort by the government also includes a $100 million project to write a ...

) in the history of Japanese death ritual, I treat it briefly in the following: ... (Japanese cartoonists can do it in b&w) -- and say "How embarrassing!

Sure, but as the Japanese say, you gotta know your "TPO." Whatever is most ... You can analyze a poem to death structurally, but that will not help ...

Pacific Northwest haiku poet Robert Major was born on 9 August 1920, and died on 18 May 2008. I wrote this memorial to share at a national meeting of the Haiku ...

The word manga roughly means random drawings, and the term is now more commonly associated with a type of Japanese ... I am writing this in my old age.

Assistant Professor, Nihon University - ‪‪Cited by 7‬‬ - ‪writing studies‬ - ‪linguistics‬ - ‪Japan‬ - ‪death‬ - ‪aging‬