Mayuzumi Madoka

Haiku poet. Born in Kanagawa Prefecture. In addition to her award-winning collections of haiku, has also written the libretto for an opera based on the Manyōshū, and lyrics for the song “Beginning in Spring: From Fukushima to the World,” which was premiered in New York as part of post-disaster relief efforts. From April 2010, spent a year in Paris as a Japanese cultural envoy for the Agency for Cultural Affairs. Numerous books include Hikizan no bigaku — Mono iwanu kuni no bunka ryoku (An Aesthetics of Substraction: The Cultural Power of a Silent Country) and Teppen no hoshi (Stars Over the Peak).

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Aug 5, 2013