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A poetry reading and discussion will be held by members of the Japan International Poetry Society at the Graduate School of Language and Culture at Osaka University (大阪大学の言語文化研究科) on November 17th between 1:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. Readers will include Eric Selland, Goro Takano, Jane Joritz-Nakagawa, Kiyoko Ogawa, Loren Goodman, Yoko Danno, and myself. Poetry […]
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I get a lot of questions from friends about my job here in Japan, and lots of requests for “descriptions of everyday life,” so here it goes. I’m currently working at Osaka University in the position of Gaikokujin Kyoshi (which is translated as “Visiting Foreign Lecturer”) in the Graduate School of Language and Culture. The […]
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Night sakura
One of the greatest pleasures of cherry blossom season is wandering around at night and finding the bunches and clusters of blossoms illuminated by artificial light. Although there are many places where this is done on purpose and the trees are spotlit and gorgeous, in other places it’s just the streetlights and fluorescents that do […]
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Tags: お花見, blossom viewing, cherry blossoms, cherry trees, night, ohanami, osaka university, photography, sakura, 夜, 大阪大学, 桜
Osaka Daigaku dance club
The Osaka University street dance club is always ready for a party.
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Night comets
Here are two photographs of the cherry blossoms at Machikaneyama campus at night. I had to take quite a few to get these — the wind was blowing and it was difficult to keep my hand from moving, so many of the shots came out blurry. But these two came out just fine. I think […]
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Osaka Daigaku Ohanami
Osaka University’s Machikaneyama Campus, where I teach, is populated with cherry trees. The trees blossom just before the term begins and students hold blossom-viewing parties under the trees. The Osaka University Graduate School of Language and Culture also holds an annual ohanami party under a tree that is the subject of at least two of […]
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