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Consequently, [Terayama Shuuji] often played the buffoon to his more serious colleagues, as he did in a July, 1970, dialogue with Mishima Yukio . . . At one point, [Terayama] laughingly suggested to the very earnest Mishima that Tenjou Sajiki might sponsor a one-man show in which Mishima would demonstrate his famous ability to flex his carefully sculpted upper-body muscles. Mishima refused to be angered by this obvious lack of respect.


Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei


#japanese-lit #anger

Until I met you," she said, "I never realized how precious each day could be. When I was working, each day was over before I knew it, and then a week just flew by, and then a whole year...What have I been doing all this time? Why didn't I meet you before? If I had to choose a whole year in the past, or a day with you-I'd choose a day with you...


Shūichi Yoshida


#love #regret #romance #sappy-love #time-passing

The line between him and the enemy had simultaneously blurred and solidified. Somehow, while perhaps it shouldn't have, this thought provided a strange sense of peace.


Kristina McMorris


#peace #philosophy #war #wisdom #world-war-ii

Is that so? He who lives in the mountains years for the city, and the city-dweller would rather live in the mountains," the Abbot chuckled, "and nothing is ever to one's liking...


Eiji Yoshikawa


#the-heike-story #love

Here--you warriors--why this moaning and complaining? Have you no more sense than toads and vipers? Our time hasn't come. Have you no patience? Are we not the 'trodden weed' still? The time is not yet here for us to raise our heads. Must you still complain?


Eiji Yoshikawa


#taira-no-kiyomori #the-heike-story #love

Everything in my life revolves around people playing at being something.


Banana Yoshimoto


#inspirational #japanese #life #personal #inspirational

An obstacle which would frighten discreet men is nothing to determined women. They dare what men avoid, and sometimes they achieve an unusual success.


Ōgai Mori


#japanese #japanese-literature #women #men

History demonstrates that previous military drawdowns invited aggression by our enemies. After World War I, America drew down forces until the U.S. Army had fewer than 100,000 men in uniform. That weakness invited Nazi aggression in Europe and the imperial Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor.


Frank Gaffney


#aggression #america #army #attack #demonstrates

The President wishes the Japanese to be very prudent about the introduction of opium, and if a treaty is made, he wishes that opium may be strictly prohibited.


Townsend Harris


#introduction #japanese #made #may #opium

To hear the Japanese plead for free trade is like hearing the word love on the lips of a harlot.


Lane Kirkland


#free trade #harlot #hear #hearing #japanese