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The old pond- A frog leaps in, And a splash.

1686

★ 7.1

The months and days are the travelers of eternity. The years that come and go are also voyagers... I too for years past have been stirred by the sight of a solitary cloud drifting with the wind to ceaseless thoughts of roaming.

1694

★ 5.3

Living only for the moment, turning our full attention to the pleasures of the moon, the snow, the cherry blossoms and the maples, singing songs, drinking water and diverting ourselves in just floating, floating; caring not a whit for the poverty staring us in the face, refusing to be disheartened, like a gourd floating along with the river current: this is what we call ukiyo.

Tales of the Floating World · 1661

★ 5.2

Radio broadcast · Speech · Political speech

The enemy has begun to employ a new and most cruel bomb, the power of which to do damage is indeed incalculable, taking the toll of many innocent lives. Should we continue to fight, it would not only result in an ultimate collapse and obliteration of the Japanese nation, but also it would lead to the total extinction of human civilization. Such being the case, how are we to save the millions of our subjects, or to atone ourselves before the hallowed spirits of our imperial ancestors?... It is according to the dictate of time and fate that we have resolved to pave the way for a grand peace for all the generations to come by enduring the unavoidable and suffering what is insufferable.

Emperor Hirohito

1945

★ 5.2

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Books

21set here

The Tale of Genji

Murasaki Shikibu

1021★ 9.3

Hiroshima

1946★ 8.0

The Pillow Book

1002★ 7.4

Snow Country

Yasunari Kawabata

1948★ 7.2

The Narrow Road to the Deep North

1702★ 7.1

In Praise of Shadows

Junichiro Tanizaki

1933★ 7.1

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Movies

21set or made here

Seven Samurai

1954★ 9.9

Tokyo Story

1953★ 9.8

Spirited Away

2001★ 9.3

Rashomon

1950★ 9.1

Ran

1985★ 8.7

Late Spring

1949★ 8.6

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Art

8held here

Pine Trees (Shorin-zu byobu)

Hasegawa Tohaku

1595★ 9.1

Red and White Plum Blossoms

1715★ 8.8

Haboku (Splashed-Ink) Landscape

1495★ 8.2

Wind God and Thunder God (Fujin Raijin-zu)

Tawaraya Sotatsu

1630★ 8.2

Cypress Trees

1590★ 8.0

Night Scene in the Yoshiwara

1850★ 5.7

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