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Tada Chimako

Born in 1930 in Kita-Kyūshū City, Fukuoka, Japan, Tada Chimako spent most of her youth in Tokyo, during the tumultuous years of the second World War...
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	FURTHER READING


		Other Tankas
		A Spray of Water: Tanka [the hot water in] by Tada Chimako

		A Spray of Water: Tanka [the round spoon] by Tada Chimako

		Person of the Playful Star: Tanka [I listen to songs] by Tada Chimako

		Person of the Playful Star: Tanka [there is a hole at] by Tada Chimako

		Tanka Diary [Awakened too early on Saturday morning] by Harryette Mullen

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A Spray of Water: Tanka [one narcissus]
by Tada Chimako translated by Jeffrey Angles

one narcissus draws close to another like the only two adolescent boys in the universe

From The Forest of Eyes by Tada Chimako, translated by Jeffrey Angles. Copyright © 2010 by Tada Chimako and Jeffrey Angles. Used by permission of University of California Press. All rights reserved.

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