Keiko Imaoka

Beginner\'s Mind (Keiko Imaoka - Tucson, Arizona) I cannot be sure when I first became aware of haiku and tanka in my childhood in Japan. They seemed to have existed for a long time in the perimeter of my awareness, undifferentiated from proverbs, mottoes, aphorisms, and song lyrics that were phrased in similar forms. Sometime during my grade school years, \"Ogura Hyakunin-Isshu\" (\"Ogura Collection of One Hundred Tanka\", edited by Teika Fujiwara around 1235) became known to me as a New Year\'s card game, in which players compete to capture shimonoku cards (100 cards on each of which the last half of a verse is printed, spread out on the floor in front of the players) that finish the verses being read aloud. At abacus school, where we played this game at every new year\'s party, my prowess in the game improved dramatically when I was in the sixth grade, after I had memorized all the poems with my tenth-grade sister who was required to do so in her archaic grammar course in school. I...

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Iohann Mayer

An emissary of the Queen Christina of Sweden to the khan of the Tartars Islam Giray the 3rd, Iohann Mayer made a journey through Moldavia during May 1651. He was sent to accompany the Tartar messenger who had brought to the queen the letter of the khan that contained proposals of common operation against Poland and he was to hand over to the khan the answer of the queen as well. He passed through The White Citadel for the first time in December 1650 on his way towards Crimea. Now, in the summer of the next year, he was coming back on the same route and was finding again the same boatmen he had used six months earlier, on leaving. One cannot be aware of any other details of his winter journey towards Crimea, no other details about his itinerary through Moldavia he is most likely to have used to make his way to the khan` s court. His journey diary is preceded with the words: These are those that happened and occurred during my journey to Bakhchisaray and during the period I spent there,...

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I. M. Rascu

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I. Heliade Radulescu

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I.O. Suceveanu

I.O. Suceveanu, pe numele său adevărat Ion Olaru (n. 12 februarie 1905, satul Baineț, județul Suceava - d. 30 septembrie 1960, Sibiu) a fost un poet român. Biografie I.O. Suceveanu s-a născut la data de 12 februarie 1905, în satul Baineț (aflat astăzi în județul Suceava), din părinții Onofrei și Marina Olaru și a primit la naștere numele de Ion. A absolvit cursurile Școlii Tehnice Aeronautice (1921-1925), după care a predat ca profesor la Școala de meserii din satul Racovița (județul Olt). A lucrat ca maistru militar și telegrafist până în anul 1945, când a fost trecut în rezervă. Este angajat, apoi, ca tehnician la Întreprinderea Regională de Electricitate Sibiu. A încetat din viață la data de 30 septembrie 1960, în orașul Sibiu. Ion Olaru s-a remarcat ca poet, scriind sub pseudonimul I.O. Suceveanu. A debutat în revista "Ramuri" din Mediaș în anul 1933. De-a lungul vremii, a colaborat la diverse publicații literare și a editat revista "Darul" (1935-1936). În anul 1942 a primit...

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