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Name: Otsuru Tadashi, Kyûshû
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	dear Matthias , - i want to express my heartfelt congratulations to you and your colleagues on the occasion of the foundation of the committee Mark Tobey! i attache here three of my shortly written new tanka-poems. giving the permission for publishing the poems on your website as a hommage to the great painter is a pleasure for me. sincerely yours – Tadashi. Kyushu, 23 June 2005


	At the top of the camphor tree Rests an old heron: Spiritualized. So similar to the loneliness Of my sighing breath!


	The morning-fog on the ricefield Begins to raise. All of a sudden The herons stretch Their slender necks.


	The fleecy clouds turn to red In the twilight of day’s end – So i understand: It’s a call Of a far-living friend.


	Dr. Otsuru Tadashi, japanese poet and philosopher, lives at Kyûshû, southernmost and third largest of the four main islands of Japan.