Category Archives: Japanese Poetry

War; Regret and Loss

Posted on June 3, 2019 by toshidama

There’s been a great deal of media discussion about war in the UK press this week because it is the seventy-fifth anniversary of D-Day. War, conflict slaughter… sacrifice and duty, these are all common themes in Japanese prints. Martial events … Continue reading →

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Sex, tea and theatre: Haiku’s rude sister, the Senryu

Posted on October 1, 2014 by toshidama

Japanese poetry is a hard thing to write about or to explain in the west – it seems to me sometimes a travesty to do so – nevertheless the Japanese poetic imagination informs all Japanese culture and at every level, … Continue reading →

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