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Scribes and Sake: Kasa-Jizo (かなじぞ)

Aug 3, 2021

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Reading fairytales within the origin language. Contextual agreements between time and place, emotions and aesthetics. We might localize our hearts out but truth be told we humans are too complex to translate. #japanese #japaneselanguage #folklore #fable
The Japanization of Modernity: Murakami Haruki between Japan and the United States

Feb 1, 2021

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Oh, Murakami, you sly fox, you mercurial and fluid, thread a web between East and west that we at once desperately need and can’t quite comprehend. And yet we return, thirsty and increasingly drunk of the elixir that is the product of your craft.

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Scribes and Sake: Kasa-Jizo (かなじぞ)

The Japanization of Modernity: Murakami Haruki between Japan and the United States