A U.S. researcher of Japanese literature has published two books of “waka” poems composed by the emperor and empress of the ...

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Dominique Meyer, the French director of Milan's opera, is due to step down in early March. He will be replaced by an Italian, ...

“Yume” (dream) was this year’s theme for the tanka poems chanted at the ceremony, which included ones composed by the Emperor and the Empress as well as other members of the Imperial family. The event ...

Rudyard Kipling gave us this warning a century ago – and it echoed in my mind on patrols in Helmand – when he wrote in his poem Arithmetic ... You can’t easily copy Empress Lei Tzu and ...