Shakespeare, Machiavellian Prudence and Integrity by David Hurley A Presentation for the Shakespeare & Modern Authors Society 県立広島大学 September 2015 My paper will look at how prudential considerations place pressure upon the apparent integrity of various characters and the responsive strategies which those characters – and Shakespeare in his representation [Read more…]
On Sunday 19th July, we drove out into the countryside, to a village called Kimita, located near (and incorporated into) the town of Miyoshi, in Hiroshima Prefecture to view the sunflower fields. The sky was full of ominous clouds, but when we arrived there were some patches of blue and the [Read more…]
In this game, played out between myself (White, 1672) and Dr. M (Black, unranked) on Wednesday evening, I achieved a quick and perhaps undeserved victory after a lazy series of fast-paced opening moves that culminated in an egregious blunder in which I plonked my Bishop on d3, bringing on an obvious [Read more…]
Uta-garuta is a card-grabbing game based on a collection of tanka poems known as the Hyakunin Isshu (100 poems by 100 poets). The original collection of tanka poems is known as Ogura Hyakunin Isshu because it was compiled by the poet Fujiwara no Teika while he lived in the Ogura [Read more…]
I came across this Schloss Koblenz Mosel Riesling in the Avanse supermarket in Furue (a suburb of Hiroshima) one Saturday afternoon earlier this month. It instantly struck a chord with me and brought back memories of camping beside the river Mosel with my school friend Patrick Bayly in the summer of [Read more…]
It was sometime in the late 1970s when the Buzzcocks were playing at the Welly Club in Hull and were introduced to the poet, Philip Larkin. Here is a transcript of what was passed between them… Yeah – well – I say what I meanI say what comes to my mindThey bore [Read more…]
Tonight is the third of twelve games between World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen, (Norway) and challenger and former World Champion Vishy Anand (India). The first game, in which Anand was White, was a draw. The second game was won by Magnus Carlsen… Result: Anand Wins. Anand (White) opened with P-Q4 which [Read more…]
Here we are at Okeiko House in the middle of a Tuesday morning “Eikaiwa Cafe” class. (Eikaiwa = 英会話 = English Conversation.) We are playing a game of karuta using a deck of English vocabulary cards from the excellent “Let’s Go” children’s English study series. The class began with rotating-pair conversations around the [Read more…]
A couple of weeks ago, on of my students talked about a photographic exhibition that was being held at the Fukuya department store in Hachobori, in the centre of Hiroshima. The exhibition was celebrating the 100th birthday of Japan’s first female news photographer, Tsuneko Sasamoto. Intrigued by my student’s report [Read more…]
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