What's New. Information on upcoming reading performance, newly issued books and more. Mariko Kitakubo

Mariko Kitakubo Profile

Mariko Kitakubo

Born in Tokyo.
Living in Mitaka-city, Tokyo
Membership
Japan Writers' Association,
Japan PEN Club,
Association of Contemporary Tanka Poets,
Japan Tanka Poets' Society,
Kokoro-No-Hana,
Tanka Society of America.
Tan-Ku Co-Founder
Tan-Ku Association, president

In commemoration of
15 years of tanka reading
The Latest Tanka Sequence
Original Tanka presented at
Spoken World Live

Contemprary Tanka Poet Mariko Kitakubo.
お知らせ

On May 31st, I will perform Japanese-English bilingual tanka reading for 30 minutes at the opening date of International Haiku Conference hosted by British Haiku Society (BHS).

It will be my first performance in UK, and I am very honored for the invitation.

Friday, May 10, 2019

My workshop at Graduate School of Hosei University is just around the corner!

Date: May 18th, Saturday
Place: Graduate School of Hosei University
"Getting Familiar with Tanka", a workshop for the students who study Japanese language at the Graduate School of Humanities of Hosei University.

Although it will be only one week since I retrun from a long journey overseas, I will try my best so that foreign students can enjoy the workshop.

Please click here to read the annoucement I made some time ago.

Friday, May 10, 2019

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It was my first tanka-reading presentation (with German translation) in Germany. Traben-Trarbach turned out to be the 39th city where I performed reading overseas.

Mr. Stefan Wolfshutz, a member of German Haiku Association, introduced me to the audience.
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Ms. Valeria Barouch, a poet who translated my tanka into German, supported me to offer German version while my reading performance.
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When I received comments from the audiene saying they were impressed with my performance, I felt relieved, and was very happy at the same time.
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This is the internet poetry journal in which German verison of my tanka is poseted. I selected 10 pieces from my anthology, "INDIGO", and Ms. Valerie Barouch translated them into German.
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Owing for Ms. Ono's much efforts, this bilingual Japanese-German tanka collection selected by Mr. Yukitsuna Sasaki has completed.

I also performed reading 10 pieces of tanka from this book.

I have got along very well with Ms. Masami Ono-Feller, who completed a huge project of compiling Japanese-German version tanka collection.
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I sincerely wish our good relationship lasts forever.
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The weather forcast was wrong, and I was very happy about it. I was able to spend comfortable morning.

Sunday, May 5, 2019