Kusamakura (22 page)
Authors: Natsume Soseki
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Chao Buzhi:
Buzhi (1053-1110) was a Chinese poet, painter, and scholar. The following quotation is from
Traveling to the Northern Mountains of Xincheng
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CHAPTER 12.
Chao Buzhi:
Buzhi (1053-1110) was a Chinese poet, painter, and scholar. The following quotation is from
Traveling to the Northern Mountains of Xincheng
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There was once a youth . . . on the rock above:
In 1903, at the age of eighteen, Fujimura Misao, a disciple of Soseki, committed suicide at the Kegon Falls in Nikko. He left a final poem on a nearby tree.
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There was once a youth . . . on the rock above:
In 1903, at the age of eighteen, Fujimura Misao, a disciple of Soseki, committed suicide at the Kegon Falls in Nikko. He left a final poem on a nearby tree.
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Beset by thoughts . . . all about:
A poem composed by Soseki in March 1899, contemporaneously with the period of his life on which this novel is based.
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Beset by thoughts . . . all about:
A poem composed by Soseki in March 1899, contemporaneously with the period of his life on which this novel is based.
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in the style of the Kano School:
Kano was an elegant painting style dating from the fifteenth century.
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in the style of the Kano School:
Kano was an elegant painting style dating from the fifteenth century.
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