Nicholas Andriani

Tag: 日本

Scribes and Sake: Kasa-Jizo (かなじぞ)

Aug 3, 2021

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Nicholas Andriani

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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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Nicholas Andriani

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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.