Contemprary Tanka Poet Mariko Kitakubo. Article details.
March, 2013 At Australia
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March 21. 10:30 Central Coast, NSW, Peninsula Community Centre. Performed tanka reading for more than 30 students of community college. I was very glad to see the audience showing interest in tanka. |
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During my visit, I did five reading performance - three sessions in Sydney and two in Adelaide - together with Ms. Beverley George, an Australian tanka poet and my friend living north of Sydney, on the central Coast. It was a busy schedule, but I was happy because many people listened to our reading. Photo on the left and one below, at Hornsby Library. |
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For our bilingual reading performance, we selected 21 pieces based on the season over there, seven pieces from MANYO-SHU, seven from Ms. Beverley George's work and other seven from my work. *Poems from MANYO-SHU were translated into Englsh by Prof. Hideo Levy of Hosei Univ. I translated Ms. Beverley George's tanka into Japanese, and Ms. Beverley George helped English translation of my tanka.。 |
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March 22, At Roseville Wellness Group Unit 3. One of the audience, who saw our performance in the past, liked my performance in total (tone of voice, background music sound, body language such as soft & slow hand movement, and the color of KIMONO) and purchased my tanka reading CD. I was very glad about this because I have been doing this activity to deliver the beauty of Japanese tanka to the world. |
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March 24, At Burnside Public Library. Wonderful performers appeared in this joint presentation. |
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Approximately 50 to 60 people gathered. Thank you very much for coming! |
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March 26, Performed reading before the audience of lifelong study Philosophy Group. |
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