Special Feature 2
Special Feature 2

Summary/Abstract: Dear Silva Iaponicarum, Please accept my congratulations on your 20th anniversary! Let me extend congratulations and words of gratitude to all the editors, members of the research council, authors, reviewers and everyone who has helped in publishing these 70 fascicles (and counting!). I am happy to have been there from the very beginning in 2004, when Arkadiusz Jabłoński and Maciej Kanert invited Iwona Kordzińska-Nawrocka and me to work together on publishing Silva. Such an occasion calls for a poem. No, not mine, of course. In the 2nd and 3rd fascicle of Silva my translation into Polish of the first chapter of Nampōroku, or The Southern Records (a 17th century chasho, tea treatise, ascribed to Nambō Sōkei, who might be a fictive character) was published and in episode 33 there is a record that the famous tea master, Takeno Jōō, cited the following poem by Fujiwara Teika to express the spirit of the way of tea (Nanbō Sōkei 2005: 44).

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