Thoughts on "Is it Poetry?" by Toshiko Hirata 

Translator here. Thank you for this wonderful review!

I liked the ones you read… I’ll have to check it out!

You could learn japanese, it has become really popular so you can find a lot of online courses and resources, plus there's anime. It seems daunting because of all the different alphabets they use... and it is. I just started learning and all I know is I know nothing yet... it's a long journey so I'm not rushing it. I feel her pain, I've been stuck in a parking lot needing change to pay but only having a large bill. My interpretation is that she has the capital to write the novel, the story, and the poem, from her experiences, emotions, and imagination... but how can she translate this into words and condense it into a couple of lines, how does she break the bank notes into coins? One of the downsides of being an international viewer of your channel is that sometimes the books are hard to get, not available, or expensive. I would also like to get this one!