Tokyo Correspondence

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Saturday, March 27, 2010

Amanojaku concert

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Amanojaku at Tokyo FM Hall "HARU ICHIBAN (Spring Breeze)" SUN April 18, 2010 3 p.m. (doors open 2:30 p.m.) Taiko drumming by A...

The Sociology of Hanami (flower-watching)

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Every year about this time of the year Japanese _ it seems every Japanese brings out big blue sheets of plastic to sit beneath cherry trees....
Tuesday, March 2, 2010

who is the poet? a poem by Yuri Kageyama

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who is the poet? a poem by Yuri Kageyama poets who pause to pontificate poets who write for grants poets who count syllables poets who admir...

message to marry

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Hi Marry You left a very nice comment on my previous post, but I deleted it by mistake. Thanks for being so supportive of my writing. It wou...
Saturday, February 27, 2010

Terumasa Hino

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Terumasa Hino with Toshiko Akiyoshi at Lake Biwa in 1986. Sometimes there are moments in life that make an artist feel it was all worth it. ...
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Sunday, January 24, 2010

At One With Brazil

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Amanojaku's Yoichi Watanabe and Isaku Kageyama are now in Brazil to share the joy of taiko. "Kizuna" was co-written by Watanab...
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Saturday, January 16, 2010

Amanojaku at Sogetsu Hall

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Amanojaku concert at Sogetsu Hall in Tokyo Dec. 8, 2009. "Kaiun" by Yoichi Watanabe, performed by (from left to right) Daisuke W...
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Yuri Kageyama
Poet, writer in Tokyo. "The New and Selected Yuri _ Writing From Peeling till Now" Ishmael Reed Publishing Co. 2011. "Peeling" I. Reed Press. Poems, stories, essays in "Y'Bird" "Pow Wow: Charting the Fault Lines in the American Experience _ Short Fiction from Then to Now" "San Francisco Stories" "On a Bed of Rice" "Konch" "Breaking Silence" "Greenfield Review" "Beyond Rice" "River Styx" "Other Side River" "Yellow Silk" "Stories We Hold Secret" "MultiAmerica" and other publications. Read with Ishmael Reed, Shuntaro Tanikawa, Geraldine Kudaka, Victor Hernandez Cruz, Russel Baba, Seamus Heaney, Shozu Ben, Winchester Nii Tete, Eric Kamau Gravatt, Takenari Shibata, Toshinori Takimoto, Teruyuki and Haruna Kawabata, Keiji Kubo, Yumi Miyagishima, Carl Freire, Abel Coelho, Yuri Matsueda. "Talking TAIKO" a film by Yoshiaki Tago documents her poetry. "A Back Alley Asian American Love Story of Sorts" by Niccolo Caldararo of her story was shown at the San Francisco and New York Asian American film festivals, won awards at the 1986 Palo Alto Film Festival, 1987 Ann Arbor Film Festival, 1988 Onion City Film Festival. Magna cum laude Cornell University, M.A. the University of California Berkeley.
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