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Sign: Berkeley - Berkeley Poetry Walk - "Sakai Harbor" a song by Yosano Akiko

Address:
2080 Addison St, Berkeley, CA 94704, USA
Category:
Walking path
City:
Berkeley, CA For all manhole covers in Berkeley, CA
Country:
USA For all manhole covers in USA
Shape:
Square
Material:
Metal
Placement:
Ground
Tags:
Literature and poetry 
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On the sign:
Sakai Harbor:

When ships from the foreign south
sailed to and fro
what a mingling of springs and
autumns there must have been

-Yosano Akiko, celebrating the diversity of the early days of Sakai, her birthplace and now Berkeley’s sister city, translated by Janine Beichman
Photography:
2023
Ariel Rubinstein
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Berkeley’s poetry Walk was laid in October 2003 along Edison Street between Shattuck and Milvia Streets. The route includes 128 metal plates with excerpts from songs, each of which is related in one way or another to the city of Berkeley.

The current plate features poetry by the Japanese writer and poet Shō Hō (her pen name is Yosano Akiko) (1878-1942), one of the pioneers of feminism. The connection to Berkeley appears on the sign itself, the poet was born in the city of Sakai, a twin city to Berkeley, and her port appears in the poem

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The closest sign from this series (3 Meter): Berkeley - Berkeley Poetry Walk - "The Drouth" a song by Charles Keeler

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2080 Addison St, Berkeley, CA 94704, USA (3 Meter)
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2080 Addison St, Berkeley, CA 94704, USA (4 Meter)
Berkeley - Berkeley Poetry Walk - Patrons
2080 Addison St, Berkeley, CA 94704, USA (4 Meter)
Berkeley - Berkeley Poetry Walk - Acknowledgements
2080 Addison St, Berkeley, CA 94704, USA (6 Meter)
Berkeley - Berkeley Poetry Walk - "The Purple Cow" a song by Gelett Burgess
2080 Addison St, Berkeley, CA 94704, USA (7 Meter)
Berkeley - Berkeley Poetry Walk - "The Black Vulture" a song by George Sterling
2080 Addison St, Berkeley, CA 94704, USA (10 Meter)

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