Category: Introductions

Description of the lives of three men and the impact Kyoto had on them and they had on Kyoto.
Introducing Catherine Pawasarat, a Kansas City native who ended up in Kyoto and writes about the Gion Festival.
An introduction to a musician and a writer.
Mark speaks of the challenges of studying divinities and demons.
On this occasion Roche writes about his arrival in Japan in 1969.
An interview with a writer who came to Japan by boat.
An introduction to Kanazawa's most celebrated writer and more about Kanazawa.
A soundscape of Kyoto, a sonic travel diary, the evocation of a utopian space, and a work of musique concrète.
An introduction to Donald Keene from several sources.
Introduction to an award-winning Japanese novelist.
An introduction to Sydney Solis, a creator of kamishibai.
An event description and stories of 1950s Kyoto from a prolific writer and old Japan hand.
Self-introduction from Rick Mitcham, an academic writer and cultural geography buff.
An introduction from Reggie Pawle, who writes on a variety of subjects, mostly connected to cultural issues and to the integration of Western psychology with the Asian traditions, focusing on Zen, Japanese culture, and Daoism.
Iris Reinbacher, a scientist who delves into personal writing as well.
Rebecca Otowa, a writer, painter, craftswomen and gardener introduces herself and her writing.
An interview with Marianne Kimura about her current and future writing projects.
On Writers in Oxford and the connection to Writers in Kyoto.
An interview with poly-linguist Milena Guziak who is both an academic and creative writer.
An interview with Nicholas Teele, an academic, editor and translator.
A Q&A with Kirsty Kawano, a freelance journalist.
An interview with Fernando Torres, a writer who lives near Tofuku-ji.
Introducing Mike Frieling, a writer and translator of poetry.
An extract taken from a longer biographical piece of Harold Stewart (1916-95).