by jkvincent | Jul 17, 2019 | haiku, novels |
I’m happy to report that the volume on the Japanese novelist Natsume Soseki, which I have co-edited with Reiko Abe Auestad and Alan Tansman has been published as the latest issue of Josai University’s Review of Japanese Culture and Society. The publication was...
by jkvincent | Jun 1, 2019 | haiku |
For my 51st birthday Anthony took me to see Daniel Fish’s production of Oklahoma! I knew it was supposed to be brilliant, but I had also read that the script was basically unchanged, and having recently rewatched the film version, I was having trouble imagining how it...
by jkvincent | Apr 17, 2019 | novels |
Portrait-Icon of Murasaki Shikibu (Murasaki Shikibu zu) Tosa Mitsuoki (1617-1691) Held at Ishiyama-dera Temple, Otsu, Shiga Prefecture (credit Wikimedia commons) I am writing today because I want to share my excitement about the stunning show now up at the Met in New...
by jkvincent | Jan 3, 2019 | novels |
Congratulations to my good friend Dawn Lawson, who has just won the Kyoko Selden Prize for her translation of Nakajima Shōen’s 1889 novel, A Famous Flower in Mountain Seclusion (『山間の名花』). Nakajima (1861-1901), also known as Kishida Toshiko, was one of...
by jkvincent | Dec 12, 2018 | haiku |
the white cat has disappeared snowy town Shironeko no / yukue wakarazu / yuki no machi 白猫の行衛わからず雪の町 It seems that Shiki was not satisfied with his first haiku about the cat on the roof that was heard but not seen. We know this because four years later, in 1889, he...
