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Japanese Gothic
Honey in the Wound
Questions 27 & 28
The Book of Fallen Leaves (The Autumn Empire, #1)
Tojo: The Rise and Fall of Japan's Most Controversial World War II General
Strange Houses (Strange Houses, #1)
Strange Pictures
Klara and the Sun
Strange Buildings (Strange Houses, #2)
Japanese Gothic
Flashlight
We'll Prescribe You a Cat (We'll Prescribe You a Cat, #1)
The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop
Dandadan, Vol. 1
Look Back
Water Moon
The City and Its Uncertain Walls
さよなら絵梨 [Sayonara Eri]
Before We Say Goodbye (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #4)
愛しさに気づかぬうちに [第6巻]
Norwegian Wood
Convenience Store Woman
Kafka on the Shore
Memoirs of a Geisha
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)
Kitchen
Pachinko
1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
Snow Country
No Longer Human
博士の愛した数式 [新潮CD]
Kokoro
After Dark
Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)
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Of Kings and Queens
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Natsume Sōseki
From then on, my thesis hung over me like a curse, and with bloodshot eyes, I worked like a madman.
Natsume Sōseki, Kokoro

Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
We Orientals tend to seek our satisfactions in whatever surroundings we happen to find ourselves, to content ourselves with things as they are; and so darkness causes us no discontent, we resign ourselves to it as inevitable. If light is scarce, then light is scarce; we will immerse ourselves in the darkness and there discover its own particular beauty. But the progressive Westerner is determined always to better his lot. From candle to oil lamp, oil lamp to gaslight, gaslight to electric light— ...more
Junichirō Tanizaki, In Praise of Shadows

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