Ákos Fodo, born in 1945 in Hungary, has published numerous poetry collections that exclusively pay homage to the Japanese short form. One can only wonder how such a quiet muse survives in turbulent times like ours. MMag. Dr. phil. Vera Ahamer, a historian and translation scholar, is a university lecturer in Nizhny Novgorod. Her research focuses on community interpreting and language acquisition in migration.