Reading performance in Japan and overseas. 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. Reading Performance.

Tanka reading performance oveseas.

performance_2016_12_09_01.jpg Dec. 9, 2016.

Performed Tanka reading at the Friday Reading Meeting held at Ms. K. Wilson's home.
performance_2016_12_09_02.jpg I performed "Banyan Tree", my new tanka sequence. Ms. Kathabela Wilson's Tambura and Mr. Rick Wilson's Shakuhachi added fantastical touch to my performance.
performance_2016_12_09_03.jpg Ms. Jean Sudbury and Mr. Rick Wilson played background music while I performed reading of WThe Dreamer", which is my another new sequence.

Ms. Sudbury is a professional musician who plays many kinds of musical instruments including Mandora.
performance_2016_12_09_04.jpg Ms. Kathabela Wilson, playing Tambura.

Friday, December 9, 2016

performance_2016_12_08_01.jpg Dec. 8, 2016.

Performed tanka reading at the Storrier Stearns Japanese Garden.
performance_2016_12_08_02.jpg  
performance_2016_12_08_03.jpg  

Thursday, December 8, 2016

performance_2016_12_07.jpg Dec. 7, 2016.

Performed tanka reading at the Reading Meeting held at Ms. K. Wilson's home.

One of the audience listened to my new tanka sequence, which is recently published in Kadokawa's "Tanka" magagine, in tears.

Wednesday, December 7, 2016

performance_2016_11_27.jpg Nov. 27, 2016.

Performed bilingual Tanka reading at Bolton Hall Museum in California.

Sunday, November 27, 2016