‘Dusk like’

鱈つつむ衣の厚きゆふぐれを hibakusha といふ響きするどし

‘Ah me’

ああ吾は誰かの過去世まなかひに雪ふる朝を地の底として

Karan Kurose

Born in Osaka in 1977. Chief priest of Gannenji Buddhist temple, in Toyama. Studied with the modern tanka poet Ken Kasugai (1938-2004). Has published three volumes of poetry. Works as a poetry judge for the NHK tanka TV programme, and for the Mirai tanka society.

Mutsuo Takahashi

Mutsuo TAKAHASHI (born 1937) is one of Japan’s most prominent and prolific living poets, having won almost every major literary prize in the nation. Since first shocking the Japanese literary world with his bold poetic evocations of homoerotic desire in the 1960s, Takahashi has published several dozens of books of poetry and countless volumes of […]