Eight Japanese men gathered at the Tamagawa Tei restaurant on First Street in downtown Yakima to recite their poems and judge the others. On this fall day in 1912, members of the Yakima Ameikai — ...

Japanese poetry is poetry of or typical of Japan, or written, spoken, or chanted in the Japanese language, which includes Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese, and Modern Japanese ...

TOKYO (AP) — Shuntaro Tanikawa, who pioneered modern Japanese poetry, poignant but conversational in its divergence from haiku and other traditions, has died. He was 92. Tanikawa, who translated the ...

Each spring, Japan is consumed by a contest for style of poetry called Senryu. The poems are just three spare lines about the trials and tribulations of daily life. April is National Poetry Month here ...

SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD Morio Hayashida stepped off the Japanese ship Shinyo Maru into San Pedro, California, in late 1921. Seven years later, while living in Los Angeles, he published a 220-page ...

TOKYO — Shuntaro Tanikawa, who pioneered modern Japanese poetry, poignant but conversational in its divergence from haiku and other traditions, has died. He was 92. Tanikawa, who translated the ...

“Trembling heart of the gods, the central active energy of humanity emerges from the core of collective life. The city is a motor. Its core is dynamo-electric,” wrote the poet Hirato Renkichi in his ...

In Shibuya, Tokyo, there is a Ukrainian support center called Himawari. Here, on the 8th floor, is one of the two public ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich.—Dr. Jeffrey Angles, Western Michigan University professor of world languages and literatures, was honored during a formal ceremony in Tokyo Feb. 17 as the 2017 winner of the ...

Mary Witte was born in Muskogee, Okla., and raised on a farm in that state, so she's not guessing or condescending when she seeks the soul of redneckism. That unique U.S. social institution gets far ...

COMPRESSION is one pole of Japanese poetry; the other is richness of imagery and language. Because the imagery is traditional, the poet need only suggest in brief strokes. Because the poems are short, ...

THE Japanese poem is the dewdrop that holds a rainbow in its heart. In order to enjoy it, one must take the rainbow out of the dewdrop and spread it across the firmament. Japanese poems are very short ...