Here’s a short video in which I discuss the key emotions and images associated with the topic of ‘Summer Insects’ as well as the poems on that topic in Eikyū hyakushu.
Here’s a short video discussing the poems in Eikyū hyakushu on the topic of ‘Pinks’, with a focus on the poets’ use of intertextuality to add additional meanings to their poems on this topic.
Here’s a short video in which I talk about the first third summer topic in Eikyū hyakushu, ‘Summer Grasses’ (夏草), as well as going through the poems and providing some commentary on what the poems mean, and some of the vocabulary used.
Here’s a short video in which I talk about the first two summer topics in Eikyū hyakushu, ‘The Kamo Festival’ (加茂祭 kamo no matsuri) and ‘Summer Garb’ (夏衣 natsugoromo), as well as going through the poems and providing some commentary on what the poems mean, and some of the vocabulary used.