Writers in Kyoto

Author: John Dougill

Kai Fusayoshi exhibition

  • By John Dougill
Introduction to a Kyoto street photographer and announcement of exhibit.

Old Man, Blue Sky

  • By Mark Schumacher
Description of a walk in a park and what it wrought.

Spiritual Journey to Kyoto

  • By Robert Weis
Photos and description of a modern day pilgrimage.

Introducing Yuki Yamauchi

  • By Yuki Yamauchi
Introduction to a translator of English and Irish literature and part-time event writer for The Japan Times.

Introducing Hans Brinckmann

  • By Hans Brinckmann
An introduction to both the man and his publications.

Hōjōki talk (Stavros)

  • By Jann Williams
A report on the Zoom talk by Matthew Stavros.

Book Review: Kyoto: A Literary Guide, edited by John Dougill

  • By John Dougill
Dougill presents a new work that he edited that takes the reader on a literary journey through 12 centuries of Kyoto.

Introducing Edward Levinson

  • By Edward Levinson
A photographer and writer who came to Japan at the end of the 1970s.

Today: Ten Tanka

  • By William Altoft
Tanka written on the Bristol harbourside.

Kyoto Journal update Dec. 2020

  • By Ken Rodgers
Kyoto Journal announcement with content description.

Book Review: Finding the Heart Sutra: Guided by a Magician, an Art Collector and Buddhist Sages from Tibet to Japan, by Alex Kerr

  • By Preston Keido Houser
An energizing read on the Heart Sutra is reviewed.

The Witches Play Macbeth

  • By Marianne Kimura
What the witches were up to.

Book launches at Home with Malcolm Ledger

  • By Felicity Tillack
Celebratory event with author presentations.

The Wind’s Word

  • By James Woodham
Poetry and photos from Lake Biwa.

Chikubujima

  • By Edward J. Taylor
A travel piece on a distant island.

Interview with Lisa Twaronite Sone

  • By WiK
Q & A with a Reuters journalist.

The Heron Catchers (Pt 2)

  • By David Joiner
The second part of a draft of the first chapter of a novel.

The Heron Catchers (Pt 1)

  • By David Joiner
A draft of the first chapter of a novel.

Notes from Himeji, Japan: Colour of the Hood

  • By Simon Rowe
A description of life in Himeji.

Six Love Limericks

  • By Preston Houser
Limericks liberated from form.

Lovely! (Part One)

  • By Tina deBellegarde
Part One of a short story set in a music store in Kyoto.

After Act

  • By Stephen Mansfield
A reflection on the current pandemic and other plagues.

Sōseki’s Evening Arrival in Kyoto

  • By Richard Donovan
A translation of a piece by Sōseki.

Sōseki’s Kyoto Haibun

  • By Richard Donovan
Commentary and translation of a work by Sōseki on Kyoto.

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