Nature : Mono Episode Five - Daryl Maude

This episode features an interview with Daryl Maude, Ph.D. Candidate in the East Asian Languages and Cultures Department at the University of California, Berkeley. Daryl is the translator of Shinjo Ikuo’s “Male Sexuality in the Colony: On Toyokawa Zen’ichi’s Searchlight,” which is included in the edited volume Beyond Imperial Aesthetics: Theories of Art and Politics in East Asia, as well as the poetry of Yamanokuchi Baku. Daryl reads his translation of Takara Ben’s poem “Cebu Sea,” and we discuss Takara’s oceanic poetics and what they mean for various registers of comparison between Okinawa and Japan, and the Pacific world.