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The year is Reiwa 7– 2025, by the Western calendar. In Japan, Naruhito reigns as emperor, and Takaichi Sanae is Prime Minister, the first woman in that role. Murai Yoshihiro governs Miyagi Prefecture, whose modern form is the result of Sendai d...

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Trusting my horse to know the way, I ride home.
En route at people’s houses:
“How far til Sendai?”
Each time, it is far indeed.
Spring rain dampens my sleeves; the sun’s already
begun to set.
And are they blooming yet:
the flowers that wait back home...

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“Of course anyone would like to leave behind a name that will last into the future. But do we only call superior those of high rank and exalted status? No: for we know of many foolish and quite stupid men born into fine houses who, blessed wit...

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“Our world is a place as changeable as the pools and shallows of the Asuka River: time moves along, things pass away, happiness is overtaken by sorrow; a splendid dwelling becomes a field without inhabitants, while another house stays the same...

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“Summer doesn’t begin only after spring has ended, nor does autumn come only with summer’s demise. Rather, in time the spring itself begins to feel like summer; and in summer already autumn appears. Then autumn suddenly turns cold, and i...

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馬上少年過
世平白髪多
残躯天所赦
不楽是如何

-Date Masamune (1567-1636)

The year was Genna 5– 1619, by the Western calendar. In China, at the Battle of Sarhu, the Ming Dynasty’s armies were defeated by the Jurchen-led rival dynas...

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At this point they came in sight of thirty or forty windmills that there are on that plain, and as soon as Don Quixote saw them he said to his squire, “Fortune is arranging matters for us better than we could have shaped our desires ourselves,...

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So far into the hills,
there’s no sky to show the way.

-Sōgi, from “Three Poets at Minase”

The year was Keichō 19– 1614, by the Western calendar. In Holland, the States General granted permission for the New Netherland...

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“The Master said, “Is it not a pleasure to learn and, when it is timely, to practice what you have learned? Is it not a joy to have friends coming from afar? Is it not gentlemanly not to become resentful if no one takes notice of your learning...

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The yellow nightingale ascends [from] the valley and cries three times.
It enjoys life and sings of peace.
This is a stable basis for the flowering of ten thousand-fold bliss.
It is the new spring of the Luoyang Castle of the Eastern Country.