TALK AT WASEDA UNVERSITY, JAPAN, MAY 2024

 We're drawing near to my speaking and research tour of Japan. Getting very excited. This is the latest flyer promoting my talk (front and back). Waseda is the university from which Haruki Murakami - one of my favourite authors  - graduated, and many of his characters also. #Japan #writingcommunity #cultureireann #cultureireland

  

TALK AT MEIJI UNIVERSITY, JAPAN

 

Flyer announcing my talk at Meiji 

University, May 14, 2024. It's 

getting nearer! Dashing about with 

last-minute preparations. I'll be doing 

some research as well as my talks on 

haiku, haibun and Kabuki Theatre. 

#Ireland #Japan #speakingtour

SPEAKING TOUR JAPAN, MAY 2024

It's getting nearer! My presentation is all green and gold, how Irish can ye get. The maps in my Japanese translations are, of course, in Japanese script and there will some in my text slides also: 日々旅にして、旅を栖とす "their journey is life, their journey is home" (Matsuo Basho, Oku no Hosomichi). Also some Irish: Is an turas i n-ailithre é an saol "life is a journey through a foreign land" (ancient Irish poem). And I'll be blathering away in three languages. #nihongo #gaeilge #Japan #Ireland  

  

JAPANESE SPEAKING TOUR, MAY 2024

Flyer for my talk at the University of the Sacred Heart, Tokyo. I'll be giving a PowerPoint presentation with lovely images of Ireland and some of Canada too! The 7 editions translated into Japanese by Kodansha Publishers are The Druid's Tune, The Singing Stone and the 4 books of The Chronicles of Faerie series - The Hunter's Moon, The Summer King, The Light-Bearer's Daughter and The Book of Dreams (in 2 volumes). My books include Irish, Canadian and American characters and are set chiefly in Ireland but with Canadian mythology and magic highlighted in The Book of Dreams. I'll be in Japan to give talks but I'll also be doing research on haiku and haibun and the use of creative technology in Kabuki theatre. As I'm there a whole month, I'll do a spot of travelling and sight-seeing as well, lucky me! Working away on learning Japanese. The 3 scripts are difficult - hiragana, katakana and kanji - but otherwise I'd say it's easier than Irish. #Japanese #Japan #Ireland #Canada #nihongo *Supported by Cultúr Eireann/Culture Ireland*