The Japan Society takes me on the Narrow Road to the Deep North
Translations – don’t they drive you up the wall? They’re either accurate or readable but somehow never both. You’re always having to settle for one or the other. So what’s got me so bothered about them...
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© Tenri Central Library The Brunei Gallery at SOAS, where 100 years of Japanese Books, an exhibition of rare Japanese books, documents and manuscripts is on show, is easy to get to – just a few minutes...
View ArticleBasho and Wordsworth – more in common than you’d think
It’s a bit far for a day trip, but up in Cumbria there’s an exhibition on called Wordsworth and Basho: Walking Poets. It’s at the Wordsworth Museum, next to Dove Cottage where William Wordsworth wrote...
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