(Albany, CA: Stone Bridge Press, 2018) Tracy Franz’s memoir, My Year of Dirt and Water: Journal of a Zen Monk’s Wife in Japan, chronicles the year her husband, Koun, attends intensive training in a cloistered temple to become a Zen … Continued
Translated from the Japanese by Takuma Sminkey (Berkely, CA: Stone Bridge Press, 2017) When In The Woods of Memory by Shun Medoruma opens, a number of girls are working and playing in a narrow passageway by the water, a “safe … Continued
Japanese Girl at the Siege of Changchun: How I Survived China’s Wartime Atrocity. Translated from the Chinese by Michael Brase. (Berkely, CA: Stone Bridge Press, 2016) There is an old Chinese curse that says “May you live in interesting times.” … Continued