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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 [one narcissus] by Tada Chimako

		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

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

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

Person of the Playful Star: Tanka [there is a hole at] there is a hole at the end of night a secret surrounded by red road construction lamps

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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