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Back Issues: 2005
#59
Cover photograph by Michael Wolf: "Architecture of Density"
Received first prize in World Press Photo Awards 2005 for his "Factories in China" series
www.photomichaelwolf.com

CONTENTS:

Whimsical Forces – photographs by Hirokawa Taishi
Shipbreaking – photographs from Bangladesh by Edward Burtynsky
The Psychology of Zen – Reggie Pawle, Ph.D. (with ink paintings by James Jack)
Reporting Reality – An interview with Hirokawa Ryuichi, founder of Days Japan, by Eric Prideaux
Beyond East & West – Reliving Iran on the road in Burma and Cambodia, by Miro Phanruang (with photographs by Doc Ross, Stewart Wachs, Ken Straiton, and Yalda Moaiery)
Asian Iran – Jason Rezaian, photographs by Doc Ross
Architecture of Density – photographs by Michael Wolf
Before the Flood – photographs of the Three Gorges dam, by Edward Burtynsky
Interaction – photographs of hands in prayer by Suzuka Yasu

Haiku Evolves:
In the Footsteps of 'the Way of Haiku' – Michael Fessler
Reconnecting Through Poetry – Patricia Donegan
Remembering R.H. Blyth – Duncan Baker, with ink paintings by James Jack and photograph by Gulnara Samoilova
Old Mountain Soul – An interview with haikuist James Hackett, by Tim Hornyak
Allen Ginsberg's Naked Haiku – Patricia Donegan

In Translation:
Revealing the Invisible – Manoa's Frank Stewart & Patricia Matsueda on Expanding Cultural Horizons, by Ken Rodgers
The Pepper Tree – Ito Hiromi (fiction)
A Poem for my Young Lover – Du Tu Le
Land of Snows – Yidam Tsering
The Diabolical Sweetness of Pol Pot – Soth Polin

Tide Change in Saga: the Isahaya Bay dam debacle – Gavan McCormack, photographs by Nishida Hodaka
Keys to the Kingdom – Robert Brady
A Journey to the Residual World – an interview with photographer Hatakeyama Naoya, by Sean O'Toole
Eco-Savvy Village Shows the Way – Kavitha Kuruganti (Women's Feature Service)
Views from Two Ground Zeros – Hoshikawa Jun (photograph by Gulnara Samoilova, cartoon by Leem Hye Jeong)
Jumping to the Right: Suppressing a Manga on the Nanking Massacre – Philip J. Cunningham Encounter:
Manners of Speech: Coming to terms with Kyoto's code – Philip J. Cunningham

Reviews:
In the Qu Yuan Tradition – Mercury Rising: Contemporary Poetry from Taiwan, Manoa 15:1, by Ken Chen
Vietnamese Literature Inside and Out – Two Rivers: New Vietnamese Writing from America and Viet Nam, Manoa 14:1, by Roy Hamric
Teaching Cranes to Dance – Poems of the Masters: China's Classic Anthology, translated by Red Pine, by Preston Houser
Priest Issa of Haiku Temple – Pure Land Haiku: The Art of Priest Issa, David G. Lanoue, by Ken Rodgers
Slow-Release Karma – Peacock Hotel, Philip J. Cunningham, by Ken Rodgers
The Year of My Life: A Translation of Issa's Oraga, by John Brandi
Lost Heian, Hailstone Haiku Circle, by Brian Tasker
Love and Hope in Tokyo – Green Tea to Go, Leza Lowitz, by Suzanne Kamata
Matchlessly Illuminating Taisho – Matchibako: Japanese Matchbox Art of the 20s and 30s, Maggie Kinser Hohle, by John Einarsen

Voices:
In Memoriam: Sawano Minoru, husband of Kyoto poet Edith Shiffert – their haiku, with photographs by Micah Gampel

Street, Just Deeds, Transience, Media in Asia, Time, Transforming Conflict, Inaka, Orthodoxy & Heresy, Word, Sacred Mountains of Asia, The Death & Resurrection of Kyoto, Radicalism of Cultural Continuity, Neighborhoods, Allure of the Exotic, Kyoto Speaks, Eros, Japan in the Year 2020

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