Publications

Print Books

2018. Summer Grasses, Autumn Wind. An annotated and illustrated translation of Bashō's Oku no Hosomichi (Narrow Roads of the Deep North). The text comes in a color edition and a black and white edition.

2015. Roads of Oku: Journeys in the Heartland. Essays on Japanese literature, religion, history and culture. Honolulu: Kalamakū Press.

• Review: "Literary, personal pilgrimage comes to life in new book," Pat Matsueda (Honolulu Star Advertiser, May 10, 2015).

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2004. Local Geography: Essays on Multicultural Hawai‘i. Honolulu: Kalamakū Press.

• Review: Ragnar Carlson. (Honolulu Weekly. Vol 9, June 8-14, 2005.)
• Readers' Comments

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1999. Storied Landscapes: Hawaiian Literature and Place. Honolulu: Kalamakū Press.

Reviews:

• Stu Dawrs, “Sense of Place.” (Honolulu Weekly. Nov. 17-23, 1999).
• Charlene Luke, “The best of ’99, Nonfiction” (Honolulu Advertiser, Dec. 25, 1999).
• Paul Lyons, Review (Marvels and Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies, Vol. 14, No. 2, 2000).
• Rob Wilson, Review (The Contemporary Pacific. Fall 2001).

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Online Books

• 2004-2015. Roads of Oku: Travels in Japan (a new Kapi‘olani Community College Library website).
• 1994-2012. Hawaiian Voyaging Traditions: Archival website of research and materials, from the revival of voyaging and non-instrument navigation led by the Polynesian Voyaging Society and its voyaging canoe Hōkūle‘a.
• 1999-2006. Traditions of O‘ahu: Stories of an Ancient Island (a new Kapi‘olani Community College Library website).

Edited Works

• 2006. La‘ieikawai. S.N. Haleole. Honolulu: Kalamaku Press.
• 2006. Hawaiian Fishing Traditions. Moke Manu and Others. Revised Edition. Honolulu: Kalamaku Press.
• 2005. The Wind Gourd of La‘amaomao. Moses K. Nakuina. Revised Edition. Honolulu: Kalamaku Press.
• 2004. Voyaging Chiefs of Havai‘i. Teuira Henry and Others. Online Version. Honolulu: Kalamaku Press.
• 2001. Ancient O‘ahu: Stories from Thrum and Fornander. Revised Edition. Honolulu: Kalamaku Press.

Translations

• 2005. “Cane Fire.” Translation of a short story by Naoto Nakashima, with Masako Ikeda. Printed in Bamboo Ridge, Summer 2005. Nakashima’s Hawaii Monogatari is ca ollection of ten stories, including “Cane Fire,” published in Japan in 1936.

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Photo Gallery

Mango Trees on Keaʻahala Road c. 1957. See "Mango Trees on Keaʻahala Road."

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Oyu Stone Circles, Aomori, Japan, Summer 2005. These stone circles, perhaps marking burials or used for astronomical observations, date from the Jomon period, around 4000 years ago. See Japan Suumer 2005: “Roads of Oku: In the Footsteps of Basho and Beyond.

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Winter Sunset over Lake Shinji, December 2006. The sun goddess Amaterasu’s splendid rays giving way to the cloud forms and wintry darkness of the storm-god Susanoo. See Japan Autumn 2006: “Where Gods Alight: Sacred Sites in Western Japan.

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Ise Shrine, Spring 2014. The shrine to the sun goddess Amaterasu.

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Hane, Ua Huka, Marquesas Islands. See Marquesas 1999: On the Voyaging Canoe Hokule‘a to Six Islands in the Marquesas.

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Uxmal. See Yucatan 2000: Mayan Ruins.

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Travel Writing–Japan

Note: The webpages from this section have been moved to a new Kapiʻolani Community College server. See Roads of Oku: Travels in Japan

• 2015 Summer: "Saké-Tasting in Niigata, the Kingdom of Local Brew"
• 2013 Summer: Far Roads: Finishing Touches" (Hokkaidō and Tōhoku).
• 2012 Summer: “Travels in the Fifth Moon" (Kantō, Chubu, and Kansai).
• 2011 Spring: "On the Far Side of Disaster" (Travels in Southern Japan in the aftermath of the Great Tōhoku Earthquake).
• 2010 Summer: "Legends of the Land (Travels in Tōhoku).
• 2009 Fall: North Country Fall Colors (Travels in Tōhoku).
• 2009 Summer: "Summer Delights—Fireflies and Sweet Fish" (Travels in Shikoku and Chugoku).
• 2008 Spring: "Full Bloom and Festivals" (Sakura Season on the Tōkaidō and Nakasendō).
• 2008 Winter: "Snow Country" (Winter Travels in Japan. An earlier version was published in Honolulu Star Bulletin, March 9, 2008.)
• 2007 Summer: "On the Voyaging Canoe Hōkūle‘a, from Uwajima, Shikoku, to Yokohama"
• 2006 Fall: Where Gods Alight (Sacred Sites in Western Japan.An earlier version was published in Honolulu Advertiser, January 7, 2007.)
• 2005 Summer: Roads of Oku (Tōhoku and Hokkaidō. An earlier version was published as "Poetry in Motion: Travels in Northern Japan in the Footsteps of Bashō and Beyond" in Honolulu Advertiser, June 26, 2005.)
• 2004 Spring: "On the Road in Kansai" (Nara, Ise, Kumano, Kyōto, and Tango. An earlier version was published as “On the Road in Kansai: Scenery and Shintō Shrines” in Honolulu Advertiser, June 6, 2004.)

Travel Writing–Pacific

• 2006, Philippines: “Manilla and Beyond.” Traveling with the governor of Hawai'i's tour to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Filipino immigration to Hawai'i.
• 2000, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands: “Sanctuary.” On the Rapture with scientists conducting an ecological survey of the islands. Published in Local Geography: Essays on Multicultural Hawai‘i.
• 1999, Marquesas: On the Voyaging Canoe Hōkūle‘a to Six Islands in the Marquesas.
• 1993, Marquesas: “Journey to the Isles of Hiva.” On an archaeological expedition to Nukuhiva in the Marquesas Islands. (An earlier version appeared in the Honolulu Advertiser, Sept. 19, 1993.)
• 1992, Tahiti: On the Voyaging Canoe Hōkūlea from Tahiti to Ra‘iatea.

Travel Writing–Americas

• 2000, Yucatan: Mayan Ruins, Yucatan Peninsula. 12 photo images and a map.
• 1995, Native British Columbia and Alaska: On the Voyaging Canoe Hawai'iloa from Vancouver to Juneau.
• 1992, New Mexico: Chaco Canyon-Acoma-O‘ke, with 3 photos and a map.

Polynesian Voyaging and Navigation

• 1999. “Wayfinding: Modern Methods and Techniques of Non-Instrument Navigation, Based on Pacific Traditions.” Compiled from the teaching of Nainoa Thompson and other Sources. Posted at the PVS website.
• 1999. “Voyaging Chiefs of Kaneohe Bay”). Published in Storied Landscapes (1999).
• 1995. “Isles of Hiva”: History and culture of the Marquesas Islands. Posted at the PVS website.
• 1993. “No Na Mamo: Hōkūle‘a’s 1992 Voyage for Education” (KCCN Hawaiian Radio Cultural Vignette Series, broadcast, February to April 1993). Posted at the PVS website.
• 1992, 2002, and 2004/ Updates of Voyage from the Past [history of Hōkūle‘a for children]. Kamehameha Schools Press.

Essays, Introductions, Reviews, Interview

• 2016. Introduction to E Luku wale e: Photos of the H-3 Construction/Destruction by Kapulani Landgraf and Mark Hamasaki, a photo-documentary of the building of the H-3 Freeway.
• 2009. “This Land (Native Hawai‘i) is Your Land, That Land (Multicultural Hawai‘i) is My Land,” a response to comments on Storied Landscapes in Ku‘ualoha Ho‘omanawanui’s “This Land Is Your Land, This Land was My Land,” in the anthology Asian Settler Colonialism: From Local Governance to the Habits of Everyday Life in Hawai’i, edited by Candace Fujikane and Jonathan Y. Okamura, University of Hawaii Press, 2008).
• “The Myth of ‘Asian Settler Colonialism,” a critique of Candace Fujikane’s introduction to Asian Settler Colonialism: From Local Governance to the Habits of Everyday Life in Hawai’i (2008).
• 2008. "Authenticity of Place: An Interview with Dennis Kawaharada" by Lee Tonouchi and Barbi Hanohano-Medeiros in Wea: Da Land Get Stories, Kapi'olani Community College.
• 2005. Review of Greg Dening’s Beach Crossings, Voyaging across times, cultures and self. Printed in The Great Circle: Journal of the Australian Associaton for Maritime History. Vol. 27, No. 1, 2005.
• 2004. “Mango Trees on Kea‘ahala Road.” Growing up in Kane‘ohe in the 1950’s. Published in Local Geography.
• 2004. “Alive in Story.” Printed in Wao Akua, Sacred Source of Life (Department of Land and Natural Resources Division of Forestry and Wildlife. 2003). Published in Local Geography (2004).
• 2001. “Local Mythologies, 1979-2000.” Printed in Hawai‘i Review 56 Spring 2001.
• 2001. “A Search for Kū‘ula-kai.” In Literary Studies East and West: Navigating Islands and Continents: Conversation and Contestations in and around the Pacific / Selected Essays, edited by Cindy Franklin, Ruth Hsu, and Suzanne Kosanke. UH Press and EW Center Press, 2001. Published in Storied Landscapes (1999).
• 1999. “He Mele no Kane / A Song of Life” published in Storied Landscapes. Related reading: “Nihoa and Mokumanamana,” posted at the PVS Website.
• 1999. “The Discovery and Settlement of Polynesia.” Posted at the PVS website.
• 1983. “Images of Local Culture.” In The Hawaii Herald. Vol. 4, No. 10. May 20, 1983.

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Education and Career

Education

• University of Washington, Ph.D. in English, 1988. Dissertation: The Rhetoric of Identity in Japanese American Writings, 1948-1988
• University of Washington, M.A. in English, 1976
• University of Hawaii, B.A. in English, 1974
• Castle High School, Kane‘ohe, 1969

Teaching

• Kapi‘olani Community College (KCC), faculty in English, 1984-86, 1988-2004, 2010-2016
• City College of San Francisco, lecturer in English1987-88
• University of California at Berkeley, lecturer in Asian American Studies,1986-88
• University of Hawaii, lecturer in English, 1979-84
• University of Washington, teaching assistant in English, 1977-79

Administration

• Kapi‘olani Community College, Interim Program Dean, Arts and Sciences and Business and Legal Education, March 2008-February 2010.
• Kapi‘olani Community College, Interim Program Dean, Emergency Medical Services, Health Sciences, Nursing, Business and Legal Education, and Library and Learning Resources; April 2005-March 2008
• Honolulu Community College, Interim Program Dean, Arts and Sciences, May 2004-April 2005

Editing and Publshing

• Kalamaku Press / Noio and Far Roads Publications, Editor, 1989-present.