Please send your submissions to writersglasgowjapan@yahoo.co.uk and familiarise yourself with our submission guidelines. The reading deadline is April 17th.
Want to contribute but struggling with the Japanese theme? Here are some inspirations and images for writers.
The haiku, including haibun (prose and haiku) and haika (images and haiku)
Flowering cherry-blossoms (sakura) in Spring
The short stories of Rynosuke Akutagawa
The white cone of Fuji-san, viewed from a Shinkansen train
The Imperial Palace of Tokyo, nestling in greenery behind its moat and ramparts
The films of Akira Kurosawa, including The Seven Samurai
Manga and anime artwork, bursting with action
The bustling modernity of the Shinjuku shopping district
Noh and Kabukai theatre
Kamakura and its tree-sloped shrines and daibutsu, or Great Buddha
Bushido, the Way of the Warrior
Pounding taiko drums and the plucked-strings of the koto
The ‘floating world’ of the Geisha
The ghost stories of Kwaidan and Ring
The gabled cypress-wood roofs of Kyoto Imperial Palace
The focussed elegance of the tea-ceremony
Wabi sabi, the imperfection of nature and the acceptance of transience
Whorl-raked pebbles in a tranquil Zen garden
The prints and paintings of Hokusai
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