Charles Shiro Inouye

CHARLES INOUYE {[email protected]} is a professor of Japanese and the co-director of the international literary and visual studies program.

Nantucket Sound

Articles/Essays – Volume 57, No. 3

The day is overcast.
Our boat drenched with dew.

We shove off
and glide with the current,

Heart Sutra (In the guest bedroom at dawn, after the pandemic)

Articles/Essays – Volume 56, No. 2

1Today we scorn Russians,But we were invaders, too.Our lifestyle at stake in Iraq.Searching but not finding.Blood and bones and dirt.Infection and tears.Fighting to prove . . . what?Truth? America? God on our side? Twenty years ago, I heard…

An Astonishing String of Stories | Steven L. Peck, Tales from Pleasant Grove

Articles/Essays – Volume 52, No. 1

There is a kind of madness that comes from living in Utah. Its sources are many—tall mountains and vast deserts, the ability to see a hundred miles at a time, the imaginative force of a…

For All His Creations of Which I’m a Part: Buddha Nature, Neo-Animism, and Postmodern Mormonism

Articles/Essays – Volume 47, No. 3

When my parents died, I inherited our family’s Buddhist altar, or butsudan. It now sits in my living room in Lexington, Massachusetts. I pray before it about twice a month. I burn a stick of incense and ring a small brass bell. I close my eyes, and thank my ancestors for what they have given me. Usually, I do this with my youngest son, Kan, who is now three years old.