Kyoto's centuries-old tradition welcomes first English poem

KYOTO (ANN/THE YOMIURI SHIMBUN) – Japan recently marked its Culture Day with an ancient poem-making event in Kitano Tenmangu shrine in Kyoto, which enshrines Sugawara no Michizane, an aristocrat and scholar from the ninth century. In addition to traditional Chinese- and Japanese-style poems, an English poem was recited for the first time at the event […]

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