Arthur Binard

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Arthur Binard アーサビナード

Born July 2, 1967




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Arthur Binard was born in Michigan in 1967. He studied English Literature at Colgate University. An interest in the ideogram led him to Japan where he now writes poetry and prose, in both English and Japanese. In 2001 he was awarded the Nakahara Chuya Prize for Tsuriagetewa, a book of his poems in Japanese. The collection was published in English in 2002 under the title Catch and Release.

He received the Kodansha Essay Award for Nihongo Pokori-Pokori, and the Japan Picturebook Prize for Home is Here ― Ben Shahn’s Lucky Dragon. His most recent collection of poems, Sayuno Anzen (Look Both Ways), won the Yamamoto Kenkichi Literature Prize in 2008.

Read the full interview here :
source: 　www.mofa.go.jp/dispatches

His haiku name is

pedaru　ペダル

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バスを待つ十人十色の白い息
basu o matsu juunin juushoku no shiroi iki

waiting for the bus -
ten people, ten colors
of white breath

This is a scene from the cold winter of Aomori. When different people have to wait, you can see the different breath from a strong man, a little boy, an old lady and all the others waiting at the bus stop.

source : flat.kahoku.co.jp


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Japanese Reference

アーサー・ビナード - Wikipedia


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