Tokyo Correspondence

Trailer of a work in progress "Talking Taiko," a movie by director Yoshiaki Tago, starring poet Yuri Kageyama and percussionis...

Photos by Ryan Bruss. Potrait with Yumi Miyagishima and Winchester Nii Tete. Kuraki Noh in Yokohama Dec. 6, 2008.

with Yumi Miyagishima on violin

Photos by Takashi Itoh.

Sunday, September 28, 2008 6:30 p.m. BUNGA a few minutes walk from Ogikubo Station on the Chuo Line. (TEL: 03-3220-9355) 3-1-5 Amanuma Sug...

Photo by KAZU NISHIO. Violinist YUMI MIYAGISHIMA and Poet YURI KAGEYAMA at What The Dickens in Tokyo, SUN Sept. 7, 2008. The poem is part of...

KABE-CHUSHIN took these photos from the June 8, 2008 TOKYO FLOWER CHILDREN reading at The Pink Cow. Violinist Yumi Miyagaishima and me doing...

Winchester Nii Tete, Yumi Miyagishima and I are going to the reading at Ben's Cafe in Takadanobaba Sunday, June 29, 7 p.m. They bo...

Reading with violinist Yumi Miyagishima at What the Dickens in Tokyo. The Japanese use the expression "hitono itami wo wakaru/shiru...

Recorded with Yumi Miyagishima on violin at Music Man studio in Tokyo, May 24, 2008. Part of the TOKYO FLOWER CHILDREN poetry readings with ...

Another photo.

More from Christmas 2007.

This is a bit of a late entry but I spent Christmas at a small pub in Mitaka, where Shima played violin with a singer, pianist, bassist, gui...

Shima (short for Yumi Miyagishima) already knows what life is all about: She was born to play the violin. She knows this. That discovery, th...