Seller: Amazing Books Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.
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Seller: Ria Christie Collections, Uxbridge, United Kingdom
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Published by JustFiction Edition 2020-10-07, 2020
ISBN 10: 6200495181 ISBN 13: 9786200495181
Seller: Chiron Media, Wallingford, United Kingdom
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Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United Kingdom
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Language: English
Published by Justfiction Edition Jan 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 6137413810 ISBN 13: 9786137413814
Seller: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -'I shall live here and now,' I told myself. To say this is easy, but to practice it every day is difficult. I walked and walked and walked; and I have finally come this far. I realized that we are alone after all. And life is a continuous journey. . . . Living in Japan, America, and Guam have provided me with many experiences that led me to think about the components of my daily life. During this time, writing tanka has become an important part of my life. Without writing tanka, I probably could not have survived in the world of academia. A well-known Japanese movie director said that laughter and seriousness are the two most important themes for his work, because these are essentially connected to life and death. The point is not just to live, but to live well. 'Living well' is the hardest assignment for all of us enrolled in the school called Life. I think of 'memento mori.' Both tasks (that is, to live well and to die well) motivate me to write tanka: to continue my journey in the woods of experiences and moments of connection that I will carry with me in the form of tanka. This book includes selected, representative tanka poems and short essays from each of my recent books. 104 pp. Englisch.
Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United Kingdom
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Seller: Ria Christie Collections, Uxbridge, United Kingdom
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Published by University Press of America, 2012
ISBN 10: 0761859055 ISBN 13: 9780761859055
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Published by Justfiction Edition Mai 2025, 2025
ISBN 10: 6208836735 ISBN 13: 9786208836733
Seller: buchversandmimpf2000, Emtmannsberg, BAYE, Germany
Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -The day I enter my Third Life. I thought it was still a long way off. But it is finally here. Without any warning, the day came for me too. The ten years between the ages of seventy and eighty comprise the last mentally and physically active phase of life. What should people do in these final ten active years of their lives What should people do before the wind of impermanence signals that it is time to leave this world I have never taken life more seriously. To enrich my Third Life, I will free myself from invisible chains: letting go of the burdens from my past. It is good to have a lifelong hobby. But I never really thought of 'tanka' poetry as a hobby. For me, writing tanka was food to survive each day in the harsh reality of the human world. In my First Life, I depended on my parents. After finishing my years as a student, my Second Life was a life devoted almost solely to work: mostly teaching at a university, there were limits to what I could decide on my own. But my Third Life is different. Most important is the fact that how I live in my old age is in my hands. I am the one to decide not to regret: to protect my independence.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 100 pp. Englisch.
Language: English
Published by Justfiction Edition Jan 2025, 2025
ISBN 10: 6200108838 ISBN 13: 9786200108838
Seller: buchversandmimpf2000, Emtmannsberg, BAYE, Germany
Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -I sat in a cold room in a college dormitory, making slow progress on my doctoral dissertation. I felt like I was groping my way through a pitch-black tunnel with no end in sight. But I knew that it was far too late to go back the way I came. In the days and years of intense solitude during my long-term study abroad, tanka helped me to keep going. Since I joined academia as a faculty member, I have taken every opportunity to provide lectures on tanka, simply because of my profound belief that 'emotions' are a universal language. Without writing tanka poems, I probably could not have survived in a jungle named academia. Put another way, for me, tanka is a way of life, after all.Just like writing a journal or keeping a diary, writing tanka has become an important part of my life. Tanka in Japanese is a truly short poem (written in a single unbroken line; and written in English, it is commonly arranged in five lines) that expresses our hearts, feelings, and thoughts. Tanka is an ideal medium. That is to say, 'modern souls' speak using this 'ancient form' of poetry.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 112 pp. Englisch.
Language: English
Published by Justfiction Edition Okt 2024, 2024
ISBN 10: 3330715618 ISBN 13: 9783330715615
Seller: buchversandmimpf2000, Emtmannsberg, BAYE, Germany
Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Tanka stresses love, beauty, and hope, in parallels between human life and nature. What is sought within the very simple form (five lines in English) is to express the essence of a yearning with a depth in which all the emotions are intermingled. The vivid expression of that which has touched the heart has the power to evoke a wealth of associations. Tanka is a wonderful medium of expression. Because of its brevity, it is a form in which poets can produce highly 'memorable' and 'memoizable' works. Like haiku, tanka often employs natural imagery and settings to evoke thoughts or feelings. However, tankäs greater length (compared with haiku) allows for expressions of deeper thoughts and of themes that would be too difficult for haiku to carry. As an easy definition, tanka in English is a new creation: an ancient style of poetry that speaks to the hearts and emotions of contemporary people. In this spirit, the author's journey in tanka, accompanied by two cats, continues.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 100 pp. Englisch.
Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United Kingdom
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Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United Kingdom
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Language: English
Published by Justfiction Edition Jan 2024, 2024
ISBN 10: 620674342X ISBN 13: 9786206743422
Seller: buchversandmimpf2000, Emtmannsberg, BAYE, Germany
Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Escape. This is an essential theme for my tanka. Feelings of wanting to escape. What I am talking about here is different from feelings of wanting to run away when being chased. It refers to a state of mind in which one feels like a bird in a cage. A bird with its wings clipped lives a miserable existence, in that cage. What drives my tanka poetry is often the despair of no escape. At other times, I also feel hope that I might be able to escape. I constantly sway between hope and despair. Those must be my honest feelings. I was once told that I had at most ten years of vision remaining. But since then, it has been thirty-five years, and I have not lost my eyesight. I wanted to fulfill my life¿s purpose in learning. For that reason, while I was trembling at the doctor¿s prediction of my blindness, I came to America to study at a graduate school. America was never my ¿safe haven.¿ Instead, I felt safe in simply knowing that I had a homeland to return to: cherry blossoms bloom and fall in my memories. Snow also reminds me of my snowy hometown.' cherry blossoms¿ and ¿snow¿ are themselves the origins of my tanka writing.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 104 pp. Englisch.
Seller: preigu, Osnabrück, Germany
Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. The Inescapable Seasons of Life | Expressing the Modern Soul in an Ancient Poetic Style | Yukiko Inoue-Smith | Taschenbuch | 132 S. | Englisch | 2018 | JustFiction Edition | EAN 9786137385593 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu GmbH & Co. KG, Lengericher Landstr. 19, 49078 Osnabrück, mail[at]preigu[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.
Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Tanka in Bloom | poems from a flower garden | Yukiko Inoue-Smith | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2026 | JustFiction Edition | EAN 9786209453670 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: SIA OmniScriptum Publishing, Brivibas Gatve 197, 1039 RIGA, LETTLAND, customerservice[at]vdm-vsg[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.
Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. The Third Life | Ultimately, I'll Decide for Myself | Yukiko Inoue-Smith | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2025 | JustFiction Edition | EAN 9786208836733 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu GmbH & Co. KG, Lengericher Landstr. 19, 49078 Osnabrück, mail[at]preigu[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.
Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Skies Blue and Gray | A Journey of Letting Go | Yukiko Inoue-Smith | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2025 | JustFiction Edition | EAN 9786136418339 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: SIA OmniScriptum Publishing, Brivibas Gatve 197, 1039 RIGA, LETTLAND, customerservice[at]vdm-vsg[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.
Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Ancient Form, Modern Soul | Poems on a Dark River | Yukiko Inoue-Smith | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2025 | JustFiction Edition | EAN 9786200108838 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu GmbH & Co. KG, Lengericher Landstr. 19, 49078 Osnabrück, mail[at]preigu[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. An Island of Plumerias | Embracing TANKA During My Days and Years in Guam | Yukiko Inoue-Smith | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2020 | JustFiction Edition | EAN 9786200495181 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu GmbH & Co. KG, Lengericher Landstr. 19, 49078 Osnabrück, mail[at]preigu[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.
Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Tanka Poetry and Ikigai | Proof that I am alive | Yukiko Inoue-Smith | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2026 | JustFiction Edition | EAN 9786209548727 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: SIA OmniScriptum Publishing, Brivibas Gatve 197, 1039 RIGA, LETTLAND, customerservice[at]vdm-vsg[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.
Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Love, Beauty, and Hope | An Eternal Traveler with Two Cats | Yukiko Inoue-Smith | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2024 | JustFiction Edition | EAN 9783330715615 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: SIA OmniScriptum Publishing, Brivibas Gatve 197, 1039 RIGA, LETTLAND, customerservice[at]vdm-vsg[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.
Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Winter Woods | My Journey into Tanka | Yukiko Inoue-Smith | Taschenbuch | 104 S. | Englisch | 2019 | JustFiction Edition | EAN 9786137413814 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu GmbH & Co. KG, Lengericher Landstr. 19, 49078 Osnabrück, mail[at]preigu[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.
Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. The Happiness of Living Unknown | Yukiko Inoue-Smith | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2023 | JustFiction Edition | EAN 9786200107787 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu GmbH & Co. KG, Lengericher Landstr. 19, 49078 Osnabrück, mail[at]preigu[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.