February 2025 Updates

Hello readers,

Just a couple small updates for the site.

First, I appreciate the feedback recently about challenges finding a suitable poem for an occasion. I’ve experienced this problem too, so I decided to update the poem index, and sort it three ways: by traditional, numerical order, by poetry topic, and also by the kimari-ji syllables. Different readers come to this site for different reasons, and hope this will make everyone’s life easier. Some of these lists already existed, but I tried to collect them in one, convenient place.

Second, I took a few months from the blog to focus on other things, and get some much-needed rest. Now that I am picking up the blog again, I decided that I want to focus more on the Hyakunin Isshu specifically. That was the original focus of the blog, but over time I branched out to other poetry anthologies and other topics. It was fun to explore, but I’d like to get back to the blog roots and narrow the focus again. It means fewer blog posts in the short-term, but I think I will make the blog more enjoyable in the long-run.

Thanks for reading, and feel free to continue dropping feedback and such.