Josai University Educational Corporation will hold an International Symposium Commemorating Winning of the Cikada Prize, entitled “Giving Word to the Inviolability of Life,” in commemoration of winning of Chancellor Noriko Mizuta’s Cikada Prize.
Josai has taken the winning of the Cikada Prize as an opportunity to organize this symposium by inviting the Ambassador of Sweden, previous winners, and renowned poets in East Asia to discuss Cikada as an encounter between poets of Northern Europe and East Asia, majesty of life, the world after radioactive contamination, roaming and wandering, experiences in foreign countries and poetry and expression, and the future of poetry.
We look forward to your participation.
Time and date: | 10:30 a.m. - 6 p.m., Saturday, June 7, 2014 |
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Venue: | No. 1 Building Hall, Tokyo Kioi-cho Campus, Josai University Corporation 3-26 Kioi-cho, Choyda-ku, Tokyo |
Co-hosted by: | Josai International Center for the Promotion of Art and Science, Embassy of Sweden, The Japan-Sweden Society, Shichosha |
Supported by: | Kinokuniya |
10:30 a.m. - 10:40 a.m. |
About the Cikada Prize Lars Vargö (Ambassador of Sweden to Japan, haiku poet) |
10:40 a.m. - 11 a.m. |
About Aniara Noriko Mizuta (Sixth winner of the Cikada Prize) |
Discussion on the Cikada Prize | |
11 a.m. - 12:20 p.m. |
Panel 1: Cikada as the encounter between poets of Northern Europe and East Asia Shin Kyong Rim (Fourth winner of the Cikada Prize, poet) Moon Chung-hee (Fifth winner of the Cikada Prize, poet) Han Sung Rea (Poet・Kouun's Translator) Akito Arima (Haiku poet) Lars Vargö Noriko Mizuta |
12:20 p.m. - 1 p.m. | Lunch break |
1 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. |
Panel 2: Experiences in foreign countries and poetry and expression Bei Dao (poet) Mutsuo Takahashi (poet) Toriko Takarabe (poet) Tian Yuan (poet) Noriko Mizuta *coordinator |
– Break – | |
2:50 p.m. - 4 p.m. |
Panel 3: Future of poetry in East Asia Kazuko Shiraishi (poet) Mutsuo Takahashi Toriko Takarabe Bei Dao Shin Kyong Rim Moon Chung-hee Lars Vargö Noriko Mizuta Gozo Yoshimasu (poet) Tian Yuan Aki Sagawa (poet) *coordinator |
4:20 p.m. |
Concert – Shigemi Yoshioka (*Special participants: Josai Kioicho Mixed Chorus) Concert program M-1:Watashi to kotori to suzu to (Me, the bird, and the bell)(poem: Misuzu Kaneko) M-2:Tairyo (Good catch) (poem: Misuzu Kaneko) M-3:Yawa-hada no … (Soft flesh) (tanka poem: Akiko Yosano) M-4:Toshi-doshi ni waga kanashimi no (Year by year, my sorrow…) (tanka poem: Kanoko Okamoto) M-5:Watashi ga ichiban kirei datta toki (When I was most beautiful) (poem: Noriko Ibaragi) M-6:Inochi (life)(poem: Naoko Kudo) M-7:Kono michi (This way) (poem: Misuzu Kaneko) M-8:Kakare nakatta love letter (A love letter that was not written) (poem: Noriko Mizuta) *Circumstances could cause the musical program to be changed. |
5:30 p.m. | – Reception |
Josai International Center for the Promotion of Art and Science
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