Writers in Kyoto

Archives: 2021

Book Review: Of Arcs and Circles — Insights from Japan on Gardens, Nature, and Art, by Marc Peter Keane

  • by John Dougill
Review of a book by an American landscape architect who lived and worked in Kyoto for many years.

Zoom bonenkai 2021

  • by John Dougill
A description of the zoom Bonenkai held at the end of this year.

Grace Notes

  • by WiK Admin
Poetry in and on memorable places in Kyoto.

Shinrin-yoku in Squirrel’s Forest

  • by John Dougill
A short piece on the grove as a refuge for both humans and squirrels.

WIK Members and Tokyo Poetry Journal Co-Founders and Editors : Zoom Discussion

  • by Karen Lee Tawarayama
Description of a convivial Zoom session.

Edward Bramwell Clarke in Kyoto

  • by WiK Admin
A biographical sketch of a British professor in Kyoto.

IN THE POOL

  • by Lisa Twaronite Sone
A short story on an abandoned swimming pool. Or is it?

Masterpiece: Gardens as Art

  • by Stephen Mansfield
A thoughtful piece on the aesthetics of Japanese gardens.

My First Guide to Kyoto

  • by WiK Admin
A poem from the book Waking to Snow, which tracks twenty-five years of living in Kyoto.

Memoirs of a Japanese Nurse pt 3

  • by Paul Carty
Hajimeko Takeda’s Notes by a Japanese Nurse Sent to France or Women Soldiers Dispatched to Europe: the Japanese Red Cross Relief Corps and the First World War.

The Memoirs of a Japanese Nurse pt 2

  • by Paul Carty
Hajimeko Takeda’s Notes by a Japanese Nurse Sent to France or Women Soldiers Dispatched to Europe: the Japanese Red Cross Relief Corps and the First World War.

Writers in Kyoto Present the Seventh Annual Kyoto Writing Competition

  • by Karen Lee Tawarayama
Writing Competition announcement.

Foxes of Kyoto

  • by Stephen Benfey
On serendipity and spooky occurrences.

Afternoon Tea in Teramachi

  • by WiK Admin
A wartime memory.

The Poetry of Pain and Its Meaning in the Age of COVID-19 

  • by John Dougill
Review of a manuscript of poems written during August 1942 in America by Japanese-Americans being sent to camps.

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