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Lightly literary

Lightly literary

Reclaiming snow

She liked to go skiing alone. People were always surprised when she told them. Aren’t you afraid? Isn’t it dangerous? Don’t you get lonely…

3 min readMar 22, 2022

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Reclaiming snow

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A few hours of one’s own; to potter

Overall, I like what I do for my day job— some parts more than others. I think I started down this road (Japanese literature/ Japanese…

4 min readMar 20, 2022

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A few hours of one’s own; to potter

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Lightly literary

Two cats

Two cats sat in the window, watching the world go by. One had a white belly and gray stripes on her back, and the other one was a tabby…

3 min readMar 1, 2022

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Two cats

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To sketch, to depict, to describe

I have given one or two academic presentations about Meiji period (1868–1912) writers and their discussions on realistic description, and I…

4 min readFeb 24, 2022

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To sketch, to depict, to describe

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Lightly literary

Your mind is a monkey

…is what our yoga instructor keeps telling us, and every time I imagine a little monkey inside my skull, jumping up and down trying to…

3 min readFeb 18, 2022

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Your mind is a monkey

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I have to write about Mariyan

Well, of course I don’t have to, but I guess I should, because I said I would a few posts ago (here, when I first mentioned Nakajima, and…

4 min readFeb 17, 2022

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I have to write about Mariyan

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Lightly literary

Literary walks in Kansai

In Japan (and maybe in other places, too, but I wouldn’t know) there is such a thing as a literary walk (bungaku sanpo), where you go…

4 min readFeb 10, 2022

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Literary walks in Kansai

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Lightly literary

I played with AI today

The other day, my husband shared a link to a little project about human-AI collaboration by this PhD student at a university in Australia…

2 min readFeb 7, 2022

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I played with AI today

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Lightly literary

Sweet child of Meiji

You might be familiar with Akutagawa Ryūnosuke because of Akira Kurosawa’s 1950 movie “Rashōmon,” which is based off of two of his…

4 min readFeb 5, 2022

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Sweet child of Meiji

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Pierre Loti: not your best ball guest

The name Pierre Loti came up in my previous post, where I talked about Nakajima Atsushi’s stories of the Southern Seas; in probably the…

4 min readFeb 4, 2022

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Pierre Loti: not your best ball guest

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Lightly literary

Lightly literary

Student, teacher, and translator of Japanese literature; wannabe potter(er) and knitter, hiking and skiing aficionada; slave to two cats.

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