I’ve translated William Dalrymple’s “Nine Lives”, published in January this year.
It has been a year, so amazingly, since my last post, and although I have never…
31 March 2022It has been a year, so amazingly, since my last post, and although I have never…
Joler Niche Pa Dubabi Na… composed by Shashanko Goshai. Baul song and dance by Tomomi Paromita…
Yuta is a kind of shaman in Okinawa/Ryukyu and Amami islands in the far South of…
Continuation from Biwa Hoshi 2. Again, essentially a summary from Hyodo’s work on Biwa Hoshi. In…
This post is, like the last post, essentially a summary from Hyodo’s work on Biwa Hoshi…
This is Yoshiyuki Yamashika, the last Biwa Hoshi who has passed away in 1996. He was…
I am introducing a very famous poem, it is the very first stanza of the renown…
It was really by chance that I visited the Mosaic Tile Museum of Tajimi, where the…
I was going to end the posts on Goze with the last post, but then I…
This is in continuation from the previous post on Goze, the female shaman-minstrels who lived on…