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History of Japan
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Bibliography
Crowley, James Buckley. "Bibliography". Japan's Quest for Autonomy: National Security and Foreign Policy, 1930-1938, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1966, pp. 399-416. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400877904-011
Crowley, J. (1966). Bibliography. In Japan's Quest for Autonomy: National Security and Foreign Policy, 1930-1938 (pp. 399-416). Princeton: Princeton University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400877904-011
Crowley, J. 1966. Bibliography. Japan's Quest for Autonomy: National Security and Foreign Policy, 1930-1938. Princeton: Princeton University Press, pp. 399-416. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400877904-011
Crowley, James Buckley. "Bibliography" In Japan's Quest for Autonomy: National Security and Foreign Policy, 1930-1938, 399-416. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1966. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400877904-011
Crowley J. Bibliography. In: Japan's Quest for Autonomy: National Security and Foreign Policy, 1930-1938. Princeton: Princeton University Press; 1966. p.399-416. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400877904-011
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The Guest Cat: Takashi Hiraide
Takashi Hiraide's words
Like dewdrops on cat's whiskers.
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I still can recall the expression on my students’ faces when I explained the rules of writing haiku poems to them. It was a mixture of bewilderment and incredulity. They seemed to be asking: you must be joking, it’s sure not enough to be called a poem?! I think the kids’ reaction is similar to many adults’. Especially nowadays, when we live so fast that immortalizing moments and stopping for a while just to admire cherry blossoms or to gaze at a hairy caterpillar, seem pretty eccentric activities.
I guess some readers of ‘The Guest Cat' might feel like my students because this book is similar to haiku. Its structure is different of course, as it is a short novel, actually something in between a novel an an essay, but Takashi Hiraide ponders on moments too. The narrator declares: ’I want to somehow grasp every detail of the events of that day, that one day like a tiny dewdrop . . . but now it’s all engulfed in the profound darkness of time.' Like all haiku poets, Hiraide saves moments from oblivion. As Lucien Stryk states in the introduction to 'On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho' : ‘The effect is one of spareness, yet the reader is aware o