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	Tawara Machi
		Tawara Machi (俵万智 Tawara Machi, born December 31, 1962) is a contemporary Japanese writer, translator and poet.
		Tawara is most famous as a contemporary poet, and is credited with revitalizing the tanka (a type of poem that can be seen as an predecessor of the haiku) for modern Japanese audiences.
		Tawara's popularity is mainly intertwined with her skill with tanka.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/t/ta/tawara_machi.html (390 words)

	Asiaweek.com \| Books: Japan's Stellar Poet \| 11/5/99
		Tawara insists: "I don't write with the intention to shock." She's just trying to make an ancient style relevant for the younger generation, she says, mostly through observations on daily life.
		Says publisher Akihori Kawana: "Tawara gave tanka, which was once synonymous with being old and crusty, the opposite meaning." Within the highly stylized format of the tanka form, she has been able to capture the feelings of young people by making sure the language is accessible - in a stream-of-consciousness way.
		Tawara grew up in an average household in Osaka, with a salaryman father and a devoted homemaker mother.
	www.pathfinder.com /asiaweek/magazine/99/1105/books.html (841 words)

	Digital Poetry Ark and Tawara Machi - Directory of Lost Causes - by Quentin S Crisp
		Through the kind intervention and good offices of Mami McGuinness, I was given the opportunity to translate some of the poetry of Tawara Machi into English for the Spring 2006 issue of Magma Magazine.
		Tawara Machi is a contemporary Japanese poet working in the tanka form - the thirty-one syllable poem from which the seventeen-syallable haiku is derived.
		I was not really a fan of Tawara Machi when the opportunity was first presented to me, though I knew of her work.
	my.opera.com /quentinscrisp/blog/2007/07/16/digital-poetry-ark-and-tawara-machi-3 (612 words)

	Tawara Machi's Chocolate BOX
		Machi Tawara, a shy, 26-year-old high school teacher living in Tokyo, took Japan by storm with the publication of her maiden work: a book of poetry called Sarada kinenbi, here translated as Salad Anniversary.
		Although love, or the lack of it, is the main focus of Tawara's poetry, she writes also of home and family; of life in a big city; of her experiences teaching; of music and cooking and baseball and the sea; of travels in China; of odd moments of sudden insight or whimsy, premonition, or surprise:
		It is ironic that(if we may believe her) Machi Tawara has no real lover; these real-sounding love poems spring largely from imagination, based(she says shyly) not on a particular longing for any one person so much as a general longing for human contact.
	gtpweb.net /twr/indexe.htm (1364 words)

	TAWARA, Machi
		Thousands of people have been inspired to write Tanka, and Tawara Machi seems to be personally satisfied at the fact that so many people have gained this interest.
		Tawara Machi changed the traditional style of Tanka that were often limited to themes of nature and confessions of emotion, and that were, originally intended for the imperial court and courtesans.
		Tawara Machi has incorporated both Kanji and Katakana in her poetry, against the tradition of strict hiragana usage, making reading Tanka relevant for today's generation, in particular the younger.
	www.ucalgary.ca /~xyang/j341/tawarapg.htm (337 words)

	The 5:7:5:7:7 sequence of this Japanese verse form hasn't changed since the inception of the tan... MACHI TAWARA Taking ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Nowadays, Japan has many tanka poets, but none can match Tawara for her sheer prolificness, or for the way she has consistently kept herself at the forefront of the rarified tanka world -- while at the same time deftly navigating the grubby pop-culture terrain of the promotional media.
		Tawara's biggest contribution to tanka is her ability to take the elements of everyday, modern Japanese life and sculpt them into impeccably elegant lines, brimming with girlishness and femininity.
		Tanka is all about capturing the moment and pinning it down; Tawara does this ever so gently, and in the clasp of her unclenched fist transitory emotions and moments give up their struggle to flee and become still, like tamed butterflies.
	www.sexandcelebritiesnews.com /node/650 (1313 words)

	Waseda University - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Much of the campus was destroyed in the firebombings of Tokyo during World War II, but the university was rebuilt and reopened by 1949.
		Waseda's literature program is particularly famous, and counts Haruki Murakami and Tawara Machi among its graduates.
		The Waseda University Library is also possessed of a unique collection which survived the Bombing of Tokyo in World War II unlike many of its counterparts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Waseda_University (670 words)

	Internet Book List :: Author Information: Machi Tawara (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Tokyo resident Machi Tawara was born in Osaka in 1962.
		Tawara taught high school Japanese until 1989, continuing to write meanwhile.
		Her first collection of tanka, Sarada Kinenbi (Salad Anniversary) sold 3 million copies in Japan alone, and inspired a tanka revival in the late 1980's.
	www.iblist.com /author7189.htm (87 words)

	Material Girls - BOOK WORLD
		Born in Osaka in 1962, Tawara's debut 1987 collection of tanka (the traditional thirty-one syllable poem also known as waka or literally "Japanese poetry") was oddly entitled Salad Anniversary (a phrase taken from a poem that commemorates the day her boyfriend complimented her cooking but nonetheless sold an unprecedented near three million hardcover copies.
		As a consequence Tawara was catapulted into celebrity status in Japan, and her work ever since has continued to prove extremely popular, particularly among teenage girls.
		Another reason, too, is that Tawara's poetry does not address the standard elevated themes of either traditional Japanese poetry (the change of seasons, for example, or the beauty of Mount Fuji) or its twentieth-century avant-garde successors, both increasingly difficult for young Japanese today to appreciate.
	www.worldandihomeschool.com /public_articles/1992/june/wis20320.asp (330 words)

	Machi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
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	www.profitmachine.us /machines/Machi.php (1875 words)

	Tawara Machi Did You Mean tawara?
		Tawara Machi, born December 31, 1962) is a contemporary Japanese writer, translator and poet.
		Tawara is most famous as a contemporary poet, and is cred with revitalizing the tanka (a type of poem that can be seen as an predecessor of the haiku) for modern Japanese audiences.
		She eventually released a collection of tanka sent to her by her fans, ed and selected by her.
	www.did-you-mean.com /Tawara_Machi_782d.html (489 words)

	AAS Abstracts: Japan Session 31 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The primary goal of the panel is to serve as a forum to introduce texts that we deem deserving, but which have not yet been translated into any Western language.
		In the late eighties, the immense popularity of Yoshimoto Banana's narratives and Tawara Machi's tanka redefined the meaning of contemporary literature.
		The willing abandonment of any plot structure, the lack of ideological content, and the "lightness" of their language characterizes the poetics of contemporary writing.
	www.aasianst.org /absts/1997abst/japan/j31.htm (1000 words)

	History of Natto and Its Relatives
		The people of early Japan were virtually surrounded by rice straw: they used it to make the roofs of their houses, floor mats (mushiro, goza, and later tatami), straw bags or bales (tawara), sacred braided ropes (shimenawa; rice straw was considered the sacred mother-body of the rice), sandals, and even their horse fodder.
		According to one version of the legend, one night during the war Yoshiie's soldiers were in camp cooking soybeans as feed for their horses when suddenly they were attacked.
		They hurriedly packed the beans into a rice-straw sack (tawara), tied the sack to a horse's back, and either escaped or fought.
	www.thesoyfanclub.com /SFC/Fsoyfoods451.asp (5043 words)

	[Detail]Tawara Machi "Tanka no Tabi" (A tanka travelogue), Futagami/Tawara Machi "Tanka no Tabi" (A ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Tawara Machi "Tanka no Tabi" (A tanka travelogue), Futagami
		Tawara Machi was invited to the Manyo Festival held in 1989.
		At that time, she wrote Tanka no Tabi, describing her impressions when she was taken to Manyo Drive.
	www.manabi-takaoka.jp /03/eng/category/detail/1181/1/detail.html (78 words)

	Kawade Shobo Shinsha
		The scope of our activities widened to the literary arts and culture, and at present we offer publications in literature, cultural social science, fine arts, popular science, reference book, children's books, etc.
		Especially in our literature sector, we have published several bestsellers including Kensaku Shimagi's "Life Study"(1937), Makoto Oda's "Looking Everything as possible" (1961), Atsushi Mori's "Gassan(Moon Mountain)"(1974), Masahiro Mita's "Who am I?"(1977), Yasuo Tanaka's "Feel like Christal"(1980), Amy Yamada's "Bed Time-Eyes" (1985), Machi Tawara's "Salad Memorial Day"(1987).
		Our quarterly literary magazine, "Bungei" has over the years been instrumental in cultivating promising young novelists, giving birth to scores of Japan's literary greats including the recipients of " The Akutagawa(Ryunosuke) Award".
	www.kawade.co.jp /english (241 words)

	Nikon \| Web Gallery \| 200311 \| UCHIYAMA, Hideaki
		It was also around this time when he was shocked by works of tanka poet Machi Tawara and continuously took pictures of her.
		Began supporting and photographing Yutaka Hirata who came out as HIV positive.
		Toushindai no seishun - Tawara Machi (Life-size adolescence, Machi Tawara)
	www.nikon.co.jp /main/eng/feelnikon/comfort/gallery/200311uchiyama_hideaki/index.htm (612 words)

	5-7-5-7-7 \| MetaFilter
		There's been a World Tanka Competition (mostly in Japanese, but the poems are translated into English) and a modern tanka poet, Machi Tawara, has had her work turned into movies, television shows, and a musical revue.
		All that's needed now is to make it popular in the English-speaking world...
		It was absolute freaky coincidence -- I've been a fan of Machi Tawara for a few years now (and, much to my dismay, I let someone borrow my copy of Salad Anniversary and never got it back), and I figured it was high time for a post on her...
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/22589 (365 words)

	Mark McGuinness \| poetry · Magma 34 out now! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		I’m very pleased that for this issue we have the first UK publication of the Japanese poet Machi Tawara.
		In Japan Tawara is a household name, having sold 2.5 million copies of her first book of poems, Salad Anniversary (1987).
		In Magma 34 we publish a selection of newly-commissioned translations from Salad Anniversary and from her latest book, Pooh’s Nose (2005).
	www.wishfulthinking.co.uk /poetry/?p=7 (659 words)

	Tanka Student Worksheet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		As in Machi Tawara's tanka, some of the best work can come out of seemingly ordinary events.
		Share the completed work with the whole class, either by reading it aloud or by displaying it in your classroom.
		Write an essay which compares Machi Tawara's tanka (Hanabi, pp.
	www.asiaeducation.edu.au /japan/tankaact.htm (247 words)

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