Tag: Japan

Sucked into the soft, light-filled sky

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Yūko Tsushima

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This moment of daybreak, and this singing back and forth

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Lady Sarashina

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The secrets inside her mind are like flowers in a garden at nighttime

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Fumiko Enchi

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His writing was so extraordinarily beautiful that her eyes misted over

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But time flows in many streams,

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Yasunari Kawabata

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Can I remain indifferent to those birds on the water?

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Murasaki Shikibu

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The words we speak leave small bruises on the skin,

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Hiromi Goto

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“Once you start doubting, it’s hard to know what to believe”

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Jun’ichirō Tanizaki

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“I bear with my loneliness now”

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Natsume Sōseki

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