Contemprary Tanka Poet Mariko Kitakubo.

I am very honored and glad to be selected from the many responses to the questionnaire of Kadokawa-shoten's  "Tanka" Feb. Special Edition - "Contemporaly Tanka Now - Voices from the poets".  Answers to the "Tanka Yearbook" questionnaire.

The text published is as follows.

One decade has passed since I started bilingual tanka reading in order to introduce Tanka to the people abroad.  Considering what I did during this period of time, I have made 70 reading performances in 25 cities worldwide, however, I still feel it is not enough.  Of course, I will continue making efforts to write higher-quality tanka, and at the same time, I would like to deliver Japanese poetical imagination and prosodies inherited from the era of "Manyo" to the people of different countries.  In coming year too, I will take another step forward to achieve my goal.

Mariko Kitakubo

*The text above was written in Nov. 2015.

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