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Literature · 1962

The Old Capital

Yasunari Kawabata, 川端康成, J. Martin Holman

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The Old Capital
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Keeps the route inside japan as a lived cultural field rather than treating place as backdrop.

Seasonal beauty, doubled identity, and formal distance open the corridor outward without loosening it.

This work has been selected for the Aravien index based on editorial review.

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Shift medium The Bhagavad Gita Reroutes the identity thread into essay so the line keeps moving.

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Seasonal beauty, doubled identity, and formal distance open the corridor outward without loosening it.

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Seasonal beauty, doubled identity, and formal distance open the corridor outward without loosening it.

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