Charles Shiro Inouye
CHARLES INOUYE {[email protected]} is a professor of Japanese and the co-director of the international literary and visual studies program.
Articles
Nantucket Sound
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)
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…
Read moreAn Astonishing String of Stories | Steven L. Peck, Tales from Pleasant Grove
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…
Read moreFor All His Creations of Which I’m a Part: Buddha Nature, Neo-Animism, and Postmodern Mormonism
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.
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