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The Maiden of Forgetfulness & The Angel of Remembrance

Yamakawa Tomiko & Yosano Akiko.

More information about them below the cut!

Her nameless poem is dedicated to Yosano Akiko:

Yamakawa Tomiko was a fellow poet, however she was the total opposite of Yosano in the sense that she was obedient and modest. They were best friends (or perhaps even more? According to some sources!) for a long while, producing poetry magazines together, such as myōjo. Tekken — Yosano Akiko's husband — liked her for those reasons. Due to that, Yosano Tekken had destroyed their relationship by making them rivals for his affection. With poetry being published publicly on the matter, there was no privacy for them. Yamakawa, wanting the best for Akiko, decided to enter the arranged marriage her family prepared for her while Akiko married Tekken. She contracted tuberculosis from her husband, which led to an early death.

"I quietly surrender the red flowers to my friends, and weep and weave the forget-me-nots." (Source)

Which was also translated into English as,

I leave all the scarlet flowers

For the woman I love

And hiding my tears from her

I pick

The flowers of forgetfulness.

(Taken from Women Poets of Japan.)

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From Asagiri’s “Reception of Modern Literature” lecture at Chuo University’s Hakumon Festival. It's quite interesting, so sharing it here. It's confirmed that there'll be more arcs after this one is finished!

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Basically chapter 119

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You mean Atsushi hasn't been vividly hallucinating in the middle of fights this whole time????

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How can Fyodor be so dispicable and cunty at the same time?

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My only expectation going into the new chp was that it was going to get worse... and oh boy did it.

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You will not use AI to get ideas for your story. You will lie on the floor and have wretched visions like god intended

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"How do you write such realistic dialogue-" I TALK TO MYSELF. I TALK TO MYSELF AND I PRETEND I AM THE ONE SAYING THE LINE. LIKE SANITY IS SLOWLY SLIPPING FROM BETWEEN MY FINGERS WITH EVERY MEASLY WORD THEY TYPE OUT. THAT IS HOW.

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And no Im not going to talk about Kunikida, what do you mean, he's perfectly fine, he needs a little break anyway...

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If I had a nickle for everytime Yokohama was hijacked by a God id have two nickles, which is not a lot but its funny it happened twice.

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Did I save this picture or did this picture save me

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No I absolutely agree with Kunikida WTF IS going on in that airport?????

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I thought, “As long as I can make them laugh, it doesn’t matter how, I’ll be alright. If I succeed in that, the human beings probably won’t mind it too much if I remain outside their lives. The one thing I must avoid is becoming offensive in their eyes: I shall be nothing, the wind, the sky.” My activities as jester, a role born of desperation, were extended even to the servants, whom I feared even more than my family because I found them incomprehensible.

Dazai Osamu, No Longer Human

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The Danish training ship “Georg Stage” (1934) dresses in rainbow colour, 2021 

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Happy Pride Month

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I hate them.

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Born to shojo forced take over the world