All my writing living in various places

  • very basic line drawing of a paper boat. Black lines on white background.

    A Lack Thereof

    This is where my life writing belongs. I started writing this blog when I first moved onto a boat on the Thames about ten years ago. This is why it’s called A Lack Thereof - A blog from a boat.

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  • Japanese mother and daughter. Mother Akemi Tanaka wears a golden kimono and daughter wears an embroidered dress

    My Search for Samurai Women

    Where I put discoveries I’ve made while researching samurai culture. In particular, featuring stories about women in Japan. This photo is of me and my mum, Akemi Tanaka, author of The Power of Chowa.

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  • Windswept remote beach on the Okrney Isles with a golden sunset

    Published Pieces

    Places where my writing has been published in indie presses, blogs and zines like The Selkie, York Literary Review and Glasgow Women’s Library. Shout out to my South East London Writers Group!

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MY STORY

MY STORY

A Japanese woman in pink and blue dress and sneakers standing beneath cherry blossom trees. She holds a canned beverage and looks upward. In the background, other people are walking and taking pictures among the cherry blossoms.

Rimika Tanaka is a writer and researcher who champions the performing arts. Born in Japan and now based in London, she is on a mission to make arts and culture accessible to all. She believes in the transformative power of the arts and sees the potential in every person to be creative in their lives.

She studied Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Oxford, and the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas at the Sainsbury Centre at University of East Anglia. Through such disciplines she has cultivated a passion for material culture, post-colonial theory and non-western ways of thinking.

When she was a little girl, she left Japan and moved to the remote Scottish islands of Orkney – a totally different culture that spoke of similarities via their myths to the folktales of Japan. Living between islands and cultures has become normal for her. She has found that writing and other creative acts can stem the confusion that often comes with floating between worlds.

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