Kyoto Journal Digital Issue 85
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Toutosha: A House Living with Tea
Okada Torajiro on sitting
Poetry from a Chinese factory
Japanese “proletariat literature”
How do we give ourselves space and time to disengage our mental autopilot, re-awaken our senses, re-enter the present? Can personal rituals lend us focus, ease and grace, and release creativity?
CONTENTS
Features:
A House Living with Tea – Alexandra Ting
The Life and Times of Okada Torajiro – Joshua Shapiro
#Bction: Reclaiming Creativity, Inspiring
Interactivity in Urban ‘Dead Space’ – Mon Ooyama
#bction Chanoyu: Talking with Tokyo – Teamaster Soryou Matsumura
An Exaltation of Rasa – Dola RC
Seeing the Wisdom of Compassion:The Art & Science of the Heart Sutra – Paula Arai
Heartwork:
Visualizing Intuition with Genesis Art – Liane Wakabayashi
In Translation:
For Dignity, Justice and Revolution: Comrade Taguchi’s Sorrow – Kobayashi Takiji; Translated by Norma Field
Encounters:
Any Ring is Commitment: Even One Made of Fire – Melissa Uchiyama
Giant Bonsai – Sara Yamasaki
Kyoto Notebook:
Small Buildings of Kyoto – John Einarsen
Poetry:
Through the Gateless Gate – Peter Schireson
Left Behind – Xu Lizhi
Psychocosm Nothingness – Sudeep Adhikari
Poetry, Dharma and Nourishment – George Jisho Robertson
Nature:
The Unseen Wild: Tracking the Elephants of Belum-Temegor Forest, Malaysia – Vinita Ramani
Renewal:
Hotaru Koi: Come Firefly – Sara Lewis
Fiction:
87 – Jesse Efrom
Ramble
My Life on the Eurasian Plate – Robert Brady
Reviews
Paul Rossiter on Isobar and English Poetry in Japan – Interview by Gregory Dunne
Published March 20th, 2016
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