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"In every nook and corner
Cold remains:
Plum blossoms" Buson
(images: Hoitsu Sakai / Kiyokata Kaburagi)
"What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love." Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
(image: William Blake)
"Deep in the mountains,
too deep to know of spring,
sparkling beads of melted snow
fall slowly, drop by drop,
on my pine bough door" Princess Shikishi
(image: Koukei Kojima)
"'What makes us the most normal,' said Reiko, 'is knowing that we're not normal.'"
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
(images: Sai Tamiya / Shunso Hishida)
"a new year --
the same nonsense
piled on nonsense" Issa Kobayashi
(images: Kyosai Kawanabe / Shotei Takahashi)
Paul Simon - 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover https://t.co/khmpls0M6t via @YouTube
(image: Harunobu Suzuki)
"the cat sits down
as one of us --
year-end party"
― Issa Kobayashi (tr. Chris Drake)
(images: Hiroshige / Kyosai Kawanabe)
Ryuichi Sakamoto- 'Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence' https://t.co/mlhGRnYr4t via @YouTube
(images: Seiichi Hayashi )