Category: Nonfiction

The experience of a Jewish death rite in Kansai described.
Description of an outing in the Kumano Mountains.
The author describes some of his fleeting encounters.
The history of Gion Higashi and dance events traditionally held there.
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.
A description of escaping the Japanese summer.
A piece from a fine author who is as far from a marathon runner as a bush warbler is from an eagle.
Description of a pilgrimage from Enryaku-ji.
Weis writes on how he spends his first day upon return to Japan.
A Brit writes on American English in Japan.
A comprehensive look at Uji through the eyes of three foreign women.
An introduction to a noted educator and writer from Kyoto.
A reflection on the role of shadow and light in Japanese culture and belief.
A noted artist and calligrapher writes on her experience with the Heart Sutra.
Annotated list and links to WiK member publications.
Immigration trials and tribulations and a seemingly endless pandemic.
On Chancery Lane and youth in a city.
A meditation on the beauty and impermanence of sakura.
A spring walk from Ohara to Kurama-dera.
A scary tunnel.
A short description performing ancestor worship during the pandemic.
A piece on the impermanence of life.
WIK members discuss Donald Richie.
A piece on the life of a Kyoto film director.