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mistyrealms.blog
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| | | | | Hi everyone! Recently I've been reading more works in translation to expand genre and themes of the books I'm reading, so today I'm going to share some books that I have really loved, and some that I am excited to get into! If Cats Disappeared from the World by Genki Kawamura Our narrator's days are... | |
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travelbetweenthepages.com
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| | | | | April is National Poetry Month. Waka, or Japanese poetry, flourished in the court culture of the 6th to the 14th century in Japan. One of the well-known waka poets of this period was Ono no Komachi (?? ??, c. 825 - c. 900). She was one of the Rokkasen (???, "six poetry immortals) of the... | |
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christinesunflower.com
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| | | | | Reading this week's cinema sessions at ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image) and saw the renowned Japanese film Ugetsu (1953). It is part of the centre's "Spotlight on Japanese Horror" series that recently piqued my interest. "Ugetsu", meaning "rain and moon", is adapted from Japanese author Ueda Akinari's 1776 book Ugetsu Monogatari or "Tales... | |
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geopolicraticus.wordpress.com
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| | | Saturday A Scientific Research Program That Never Happened Carl Sagan liked to characterize the Library of Alexandria as a kind of scientific research institution in classical antiquity: "Here was a community of scholars, exploring physics, literature, medicine, astronomy, geography, philosophy, mathematics, biology, and engineering. Science and scholarship had come of age. Genius flourished there. The... | ||
