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Harumi Setouchi was born in Tokushima prefecture in 1922. She graduated from the Women's Christian College, and began writing in 1952. In 1973, she became a Buddhist nun, taking the name of Jakucho, but she has continued with her writing career. She has received numerous awards for her books and has been declared a Person of Cultural Merit in Kyoto.

Sanford Goldstein, Professor Emeritus of Purdue University, USA, and Professor Emeritus of Keiwa College in Japan, has a Ph.D from the University of Winconsin. He has spent most of his working life at Purdue University, but has also held positions at Niigata University and Nagasaki University. After his retirement from Purdue in 1992, he spent 11 years at Keiwa College. He is currently a visiting researcher at Keiwa Liberal Arts Research Institute. Professor Goldstein is a gifted tanka poet and founding editor of Five Lines Down, the influential American tanka magazine, and has had two recent anthologies dedicated to him. He has translated several classics of modern Japanese literature.

After his retirement from Niigata University, Japan, where he was attached to the English department, Kazuji Ninomiya taught English at the Nippon Dental University in Niigata. He continues to live in Niigata.