Yukio and the Flying Plum Tree

Yukio and the Flying Plum Tree

by | Oct 25, 2023 | Japanese Culture

It happens every time I introduce students to the ill-fated 9th-century exile, Sugawara no Michizane. In the midst of describing the wrongs he incurred, his heart-broken ox, and the flying plum tree, I nearly burst out laughing. It’s not that I relish Michizane’s...