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TELS Tokyo English Literature Society     Italian piano. 古いイタリア製のピアノを弾いています。 F umiko Tachibana

I'm looking for Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Holter. Her maiden name is Miss Mary Elizabeth Mohler.Any information about her is greatly appreciated!I found that she taught at "Glradora" High School I tried but I had no luck. .2006 Alice in Nara It was my dad who took me to Mora-sensei's house.

About Fumiko Tachibana Old and New FumikoTachibana.com The most beautiful place in the world Community Activitiest Awards/ Fellowships/Scholarships/ Distinctions Publications List Otherside River, Collection of Modern Japanese Women's Poetry "To the Continent and Back" Saru International, SF, CA (out of print) ach this year.) Poetry Page "Alice in Nara" semi-biographical story Published Books Local Presentations List Teaching Experience Educational Background Countries Visited Useful Links for the students Useful Links Hobbies Family under construction Some of my old photos when young Today I found three old photos inside             Per-Olov Kindgren plays "Sakura."

http://www.kunaicho.go.jp/okotoba/50ibby-01.html
And today I found my own work on the internet^_^ Lead Me to Heirinji Temple by Fumiko Noda (Tachibana)
music by 1Mr. Foreman 2Foreman sensei who put music to the poem for opera. It was recorded
in Europe while I was away from Japan. ! Mr. Foreman also put a beautiful music to Msaya Saito's haiku poem.
We are looking for you! Saito Masaya san, please contact me. fumikotachibana@yahoo.co.jp
Susan, where are you? "Alice in Nara by Fumiko Noda (Tachibana)" a short story written
in 1980. Won a writing contest that came with a round trip ticket to Manila in 1982.

The most beautiful place in the world "MY ALBUM" is almost all about the years spent as a Japanese language teacher since 1991. All other previous years spent as an English teacher and a writer/poet in Japan. It's about time to go back to where I was supposed to be. Fujimoto sensei at ET Blog Thank you^_^ "I am very fond of sunsets. Come, let us go look at a sunset now." "But we must wait," I said. For what?" "For the sunset. We must wait until it is time." At first you seemed to be very much surprised. And then you laughed to yourself. s "I am always thinking that I am at home!" from The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupery http://www.angelfire.com/hi/littleprince/frames.html	.....
	March 30, 2006. Japanese high school students visited our classroom.
	And Time Hurries on Salzburg, Austria 2005
way to the moon I rowed a boat to climb up the sun out of place out of pace you were shining in the night sea I had long forgotten I was the moon and the moon was me In the dark you saw one side of my body that was your own shadow ... way to the moon 1987

2000	Treva's Cute Illustration appears in Trip2005 jworkbook	Do you remember the days when the sky had no limit?
I'm looking for Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Holter. Her maiden name is Miss Mary Elizabeth Mohler. Any information about her is greatly appreciated! I found that she taught at Glradora (Glendora?) High School near Los Angeles from the article that I found. I would llove to contact the school in the near future!!! fumiko	"Professor Nishimura" in ALICE IN NARA おとうさん　わかいねえ！	Nara Joshidai Fuzoku @2000
	2001-2002SPRING なつかしい！	2002 FALL The Ninja at F-7
	2000 もう十年もたつ！	2001SUMMER
December 1989, Audium Cafe & Bar: The year I came to the States. "Lead Me to Heirinji" (1982) mp3 Poem written by Fumiko Tachibana Music by Burton V. Foreman	Erin, how are you doing? 2002	2002 FALL(EVEING CLASS) Tea lesson with Nahoko & Kaori Pugay san click to expand Kaori san2
San Diego, Poetry Reading	2002	2002 FALL(EVEING CLASS)
SUMMER2002 AT HANAOKA	2003	2004 Summer
Hachi passed away	Tanshikattane! 2004	How are you guys doing? Let the memories not fade Hope you are doing fine!! That was my last semester at swc. JPN220 Write me when you have time.
Yukio	2004	2003 Fall
On the way back from Drosh The man keep watching me and the night is cold with trees on the slopes showing off their roots. We drive and drive not knowing if we'll ever reach the refugees tonight. And the yellow moon is the only headlight as I curl in this Chitrali goathair carpet tough in hunger and thirst warm as a goat and wishing I were a tourist again. -Fumiko	1988	1988 Ladakh
大理 1988 Like its hush and flow we walk into the yelp of a faraway dog -fumiko	Butterfly Spring here we are after your pedaling hours and hours on the heavy bicycle me behind you with your dirty shirt as a seat me behind you stuck to your sunburnt back -- here we are with skies high above us clouds low above us birds together with us the waterfall sounding around us and evening light is solid as the stone stairs as voices' laughter spills over the tops of green leaves children from faraway maybe by the lake and your bathing in springwater as a cuckoo is telling us when to look up, look up, look up -to the continent and backs	2005 Vienna
	| Kikyougaoka, Mie Mizuma Akira chan & Emi 4 at Kikyogaoka Yukio 3 in Kunitachi with Ojiichan ^_^

old photos:

AomoriiTakadaIkenodairaTakada
Ascona Colloquiam, Swit zerland: I miss you all!San Diego
My house party:my early days in San Diego with friends 1989 Country Day Playing drums with students Spring 1986 photo by Joshua Blake
HawaiiChulaVista2002 SWC Summer Course students
Wine






1998Temecula Winery photo by bm



Community Service/Community Involvement:


Hosting/organizing/chairing San Diego Region Japanese Speech Contest 2009 and Contest Committee 2009:
appointed by Japan-US Center, June 2008. http://www.mykittyland.com/nihongo_ganbatte/index.html

Volunteered as Contact Person & PR for San Diego Region Japanese Speech Contest & web since 2001:
http://www.mykittyland.com/japanuscenter.htm 2001- 2006. Renewed page: http://www.mykittyland.com/japanuscenter/

Board member, TJSC (Teachers of Japanese in Southern California, Los Angeles) (2005)

web: http://www3.ezbbs.net/21/ftachibana/ and some others. (1999 - 2006 No longer functioning due to spams.)

News, students work students work being creative in the foreign language and many others pages, can't list because
fumiko herself cannot locate all of them...

Online work by Fumiko Tachibana available upon request.

Nominated for DFA. Palomar College, March 2005.

Teacher Training Summer Institute (Exchange Japan), Bryn Mawr College, 1994 (Scholarship)

National Endowment for the Humanities, second half of the program, Gakushuin University, 1993 (NEH)

National Endowment for the Humanities, first half of the program, San Francisco State University, 1992 (NEH)
Authentic material based teaching led by late Dr. Mishima, San Francisco State University.

Goddard Graduate Program, Vermont College of Norwich University, 1982 - 1984 (Scholarship)

Grand prize (Poetry Contest), Tokyo English Literature Society, Poetry Contest open to native speakers of English, 1983 (prize: cash)

Grand Prize (Short story), Japalish Review, Philippin Ministry of Tourism, a Trip to the Phillipines 1982 (prize: round trip to the Phillipines)

and several other local poetry awards.


Fond memories winning school prizes in schools:

Third Place: English Speech Contest, Niigata University, Japan
Special Prize, School Song Contest, Lyric, Nara Joshidai Fuzoku High School :) Cash award (1000 yen)
Grand Prize, School Song Contest, Music, Nara Joshidai Fuzoku High School :) Cash award (1000 yen)

Otherside River

StoneBridge web site:
http://www.stonebridge.com/OTHERSIDERIVER/osr.html
http://www.stonebridge.com/LONGRAINY/long_rainy_season.html
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5270/is_/ai_n28670966

Amazon.co.jp
Stone Bridge Pressからの「Contemporary Japanese Women's Poetry」シリーズ第2弾は、シリーズタイトル
の示すとおり「日本人女性が書いた詩の英訳集」である。 日本の伝統的な詩的表現である短歌、および俳句
の歴史が数百年にもなるのに比べて、詩（フリー・バース）の日本での歴史はわずか100年足らず。女流詩人
による詩の誕生はさらに遅れて20世紀も半ばになる。本書は、戦争による自己の喪失を「わたしが一番きれい
だったとき」をはじめとする詩に詠んだ女流詩人の草分け的存在茨木のり子や、本コレクションのタイトル
（『Other Side River』）にもなった詩「あっちの岸」の作者白石かずこ、そして伊藤比呂美、小池昌代とい
った若い詩人たち、またアウトサイダーといわれる在日韓国人やアイヌの詩人まで36名の詩人の作品を集めて
いる。つまり、詩（フリー・バース）の誕生から現在に至るまでの日本の女流詩人たちの作品を一度に読む
ことができるのだ。

日本語で彼女たちの詩を読むことのできない人にとって、本書は、「ゲイシャ」でも「男性社会の中で服従する
日本女性」でもない、自分自身、家庭、子ども、恋や性について、また差別や社会に対する悩みや怒り、よろ
こびや悲しみを語るありのままの女性の、美しく伸びやかな言葉を伝える1冊になるだろう。

一方、本来オリジナルの言語で読むことが一番とされている「詩」の英語訳集であ る本書を日本人が読む
場合はどうか。アルファベットで表記された詩人の名前からは、「女性」という日本語に付属するさまざまな
イメージが不思議と取り除かれ、それぞれの女流詩人がジェンダーを越えたひとりの「詩人」として存在する。
またそれぞれの言葉も、性別が気にかからない、ただ生一本の「詩人の言葉」として伝わってくることにも驚
かされる。つまり英訳された詩を読むことは、余分を取り去った裸の言葉を受け取るという、原文では決して
経験できない快感を味わわせてくれるのだ。（前田美紀）

Book Description
Japanese poets have been writing tanka and haiku for hundreds of years. Japanese free verse, however, is barely a century old, and women's free verse in Japan is younger still. This collection, the second volume in the Stone Bridge anthology of contemporary Japanese women's poetry, introduces the work of some three dozen of Japan's finest women poets who specialize in free verse. Remarkable for their diversity and passion, these poems provide a vivid contrast to the more traditional verse forms featured in Volume One, A Long Rainy Season.

Book Description
Japanese poets have been writing tanka and haiku for hundreds of years. Japanese free verse, however, is barely
a century old, and women's free verse in Japan is younger still. This collection, the second volume in the Stone Bridge
anthology of contemporary Japanese women's poetry, introduces the work of some three dozen of Japan's finest
women poets who specialize in free verse. Remarkable for their diversity and passion, these poems provide a vivid
contrast to the more traditional verse forms featured in Volume One, A Long Rainy Season.

From the Publisher

Stone Bridge Press is a leading English-language publisher of Japanese literature in translation.
Our ROCK SPRING COLLECTION OF JAPANESE LITERATURE features absorbing and important translations of
classical and contemporary Japanese fiction and poetry. We believe that literature is a window into culture and
society, and an expression of what is most peculiarly, and universally, human..."New Canadian Review, Midwest
Poetry Reviews

WPBS Poetry and many periodicals.

Presentations:

2009

ACTFL 2009 San Diego (11/21 Saturday session between 8:00 - 9:00 am)

Creative Use of Songs from Anime/Films in the Japanese Classroom; This session will examine/demonstrate innovative ways to use students' favoriate Anime songs and J-Pop to reinforce litgeracy in Japanese, including speaking (pronunciation, fluency) and listening (sound discrimination); reading and writing hiragana, katakana, and kanji. The songs can serve as assessment tools and present ways to learn about Japanese culture/literatures.

CATJ21 http://www.msu.edu/~catj09/program.htm, Michigan State University, April 11, 2009
｢モチベーションを確実に高める歌・音楽の利用｣{日}
Fumiko Tachibana (Palomar College) http://www.msu.edu/~catj09/tachibana.pdf


2007

Integrating images into our daily teaching, from a technical point of view, CAJLT, San Dieuito Academy High School, December 22, 2007, CAJLT
CASTEL-J in Hawaii, August 2007
Integrating images into our daily teaching, from a technical point of view, CAJLT, San Dieguito Academiy High School, April 30,

2006

Yamatesen Kanji studies thru Yamatesen, as part of Spring Japanese Afternoon at PalomarCollege, April 24, 2005,
Japanese Afternoon, October 2, 2004, Palomar College

2004
San Diego Japanese Teachers Workshop Spring 2004, Saturday March 27 9:30 - 2:30, CSUSM (University Hall 260)
1:05 - 1:35音楽を聴きながら楽しく漢字を覚えさせてしまう方法
(Ongaku o kikinagara Tanoshiku kanji o oboe saseteshimau hoho)
(web site available for worksheets): Hamasaki Ayumi's Whatever and Utada Hikaru's "First Love" were presented.

2003

Enhancing Learning Via Virtual and Actual Foreign Excursions and Cultural Exploration, LA, November 9, 2003.
Teachers of Japanese in Southern California (TJSC/Program)

2002
Anime as a Learning Tool for the study of Japanese, San Diego Japanese Teachers Workshop, Palomar College June29, 2002 (ChibimarukoSentoniikunomaki was introduced.)

2001
Anime as a Learning Tool for the study of Japanese, CLTA (California Language Teachers Association) Conference, April 26-29, 2001 (with . Ms. Yoko Wong)

Email , San Diego Japanese Teachers Workshop, Cal State University San Marcos, January 20, 2001

1995
Communicative Approach and the Jorden Method: Can We Mix Them?(with Ms. Kyoko Shoji), Teachers of Japanese of Southern California (TJSC), the Japan Foundation Language Center, Santa Monica, CA, November1994.
We are looking for our own handouts.
TJSC/Program

 

1992

Ideas for Enhancing Student Motivation, TJSC, Cypress College, CA, April1992
TJSC/Program

1982
Using Pop Songs in Teaching English, Department of English,
Niigata University, Japan, 1982
http://www.human.niigata-u.ac.jp/05/englishassociationweb/publication22.html
Poetry Readings:

Odium Cafe & Bar, San Diego, 1989, San Diego "Artwork Festival, " (with Steve Garber), Downtown San Diego, 1990

and 1992. Border Voices, Organ Pavilion, Balboa Park, San Diego 1994

Poetry & Music with MaryLu, La Jolla Country Day School, February 1998.

& numerous readings at coffee shops, galleries, etc. in Tokyo and San Diego.



Teaching in the US:

Tachibana Language Center, Summer 2009 -present
Palomar College, San Marcos, San Diego (Fall 1991, Fall 1999 - Present) JPN 101, 101 A, B, 102, 201, 202, JPN 197
Wow! this fall was the tenth anniversary!
MiraCosta College, Fall 2008. (This concludes I have taught all community colleges in San Diego County :)
California State University San Marcos, Fall 2007 (For Mrs. Mikiko Imamura-Seyller who passed away in 2007)
Honolulu University/Independent studies (1999)
Self-designed sabatical for one year.
San Diego Mesa College, Japanese 1,2, Conversation (Spring 1995 - Summer 1989)
Grossmont College, Japanese 1 (Fall 1997)
La Jolla Country Day School, Middle School & Upper School (Japanese 1,2,3,4,4Honors) , (Fall 1991 - Summer 1998)
Southwestern College, Chula Vista, San diego, Japanese 120, 120A 120B 130, 220, (Spring 1991 - Fall 1994, Fall 1999 - Fall 2004)
San Diego State University, Comparative Literature, Visiting Researcher, December 1989 - December 1990.
College Counselor for Bunka Women's University 1989.

I left Japan in the spring of 1989:

Happy 20th Anniversary! April 2009
My sincere and heart-felt thanks to Dr. Dan McLeod at San Diego State Universtiy, Prof. Steve Kowit at Southwestern College,
and all the writers and poets at the Writer's Bookstore and Haven, who gave me all the support.

Teaching in Japan:

Tokyo University of Liberal Arts (Tokyo Gakugei Daigaku=東京学芸大学) 1984 - 1989
Saitama University 1988 - 1989
Senzoku Junior College 1984 - 1988
Osaka Kinki University Fuzoku High School
Niigata Prefectural Takada High School
Niigata Prefectural Takada Kitashiro High School

Academic Background:


BA, English Literature, Department of Humanities and Science, Niigata University, Japan

MA, English: English and Creative Writing (Poetry), Goddard Graduate Program at Vermont College of Norwich University.

Interviewed (by Dr. Tony Pearce) in Zurich, Switzerland, January 1980. Goddard College, Plainfield, VT.
Goddard College sold the Goddard Graduate College Program to Norwich University in Fall 1981.

Other Graduate Courses completed:

San Francisco State University (Japanese)

University of California Davis (English)

East Carolina University:

Proglems and issues in Education: Curriculum and Instruction for Japanese Language
Design of Multimedia Instructional material

Pennsylvania State University: Teaching of English as a Second Language

Writer's Workshop (Poetry) completed at Rochester University: summer of 1982
while I was working toward the master's degree through Goddard Graduate Program.

Malcom Cowley's words still ring in my ears:

"Read a great deal, write a great deal, and get published."
Joel Agee and Linda Gregg, the author of TOO BRIGHT TO SEE were my mentors.



Countries visited/stayed:

(As being an individual traveler, none of these trips were funded nor luxurious. It was basically backpacking. )

Lived over one month: Ladhak, Northern India

Traveled 3 months in the Hindu Kush mountains with my own children.


Lived one month: Surgy, France 2000

Lived six months: Honolulu, Hawaii. 1998-1999

Living in San Diego since 1989

I was a trourist in the following countries:


Asia:

Annual Trip to Japan with students since 2000 - current.
Annual visit to my parents grave
Annua. visit to my daughter in Tokyo. (My son works in Los Angels.)

Phillipines (Manila, White Sands) 1983 (Writing Contest Award)
China (Shanghai, Kunming, Dali, 1987, April.
Like its hush and flow we walk into the yelp of a faraway dog

India, Ladhak (1988)
Pakistan (Peshawar, Chitral, Drosh, Islamabad, Lahol) 1988, July - October


Europe:

Austria (Sarzburg, Vienna) 2005,
Belgium (Brussel) 2004,
Germany (Munich, Wurzburg) 1980, 2004,
Switzerland (Ascona, Geneva, Zurich) 1980, 2000, 2004,
Italy (traveling through northan part of it, Rome) 1980, 2000,
France (Sergy, Paris) 2000, 2005,
Spain (Madrid) 2003, Portugal (Faro, Lisbon) 2003,
Monaco 2000,
Vatican 2000,
Great Britain: London 2003, 2005, Scotland (Edingborough) 2005


US: my favoriate spot in the world: Delicate Arches in Utah.

Mexico: major trips

Zihuatanejo 2004 Ixtapa2004, etc. Zihuatenejo is the best among many other parts in Mexico.


Canada: Toronto May 2007, Niagara Falls Montreal August 2008

Hobbies:

Tachibana Fumiko.com

Playing Satie and Mozart

Gymnopedie No.1

conducting an orchestra in Austria!!

Dance: ballet, modern dance, etc.


when I was 12.If my legs had been 30 centimeter longer, I would have absolutely become a dancer.

Guitar: Playing classical guitar.

I played this and performed at the club meeting Asturias by Albeniz��
H—@MIDI

Asturias (Leyenda) performed by John Williams,
The best piece! --I thought so but after I listened to Segovia's piece, I believe
Segovia's interpretation is true to the composer's intention.

When I was 21, I completey memorized this piece and played, I never thought I would forget it so I gave the music
book to Abe Etsuko san. I did forget the gakufu.

I like this piece the best of all. The player says he did not have a teacher.
This tells me a lot of things.





I ama dedicated fan of this guitarist. A fan on facebook!
Concerts attended: Tottori1982, Tokyo1987, 1988, San Diego 1995,
Nice, France 2000, Nice France 2003, San Diego 2005, and one more time in San Diego after that.


Jazz Fest in Nice, France 2005

(C) Fumiko Tachibana 2008
from all good things old and new