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  2. Death by Water (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Death by Water (Japanese: 水死, Hepburn: Suishi, "Drowning") is a 2009 novel by Kenzaburō Ōe. It was published in hardcover by Kodansha on 15 December 2009. [1] It was published in paperback in 2012. [3] An English translation by Deborah Boliver Boehm was published in 2015. [2]

  3. Yukio Mishima - Wikipedia

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    The Death of a Man (Otoko no shi (男の死)) by Kishin Shinoyama and Mishima (photo collection of death images of Japanese men including a sailor, a construction worker, a fisherman, and a soldier, those were Mishima did modeling in 1970) (Rizzoli 2020 ISBN 978-0-8478-6869-8) [292] Books

  4. Death poem - Wikipedia

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    [a] Sometimes they are written in the three-line, seventeen-syllable haiku form, although the most common type of death poem (called a jisei 辞世) is in the waka form called the tanka (also called a jisei-ei 辞世詠) which consists of five lines totaling 31 syllables (5-7-5-7-7)—a form that constitutes over half of surviving death poems ...

  5. The Honjin Murders - Wikipedia

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    It was filmed as Death at an Old Mansion in 1975. In 2019, it was translated into English for the first time by Louise Heal Kawai, [1] and the translation was named by The Guardian as one of the best recent crime novels in 2019. [2] The novel introduces Kosuke Kindaichi, a popular fictional detective who featured in seventy-seven Yokomizo ...

  6. Man'yōshū - Wikipedia

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    In 2009, Alexander Vovin published the first volume of his English translation of the Man'yōshū, including commentaries, the original text, and translations of the prose elements in-between poems. [32] He completed, in order, volumes 15, 5, 14, 20, 17, 18, 1, 19, 2, and 16 before his death in 2022, with volume 10 set to be released posthumously.

  7. Japanese Historical Text Initiative - Wikipedia

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    JHTI is an expanding online collection of historical texts. The original version of every paragraph is cross-linked with an English translation. The original words in Japanese and English translation are on the same screen. [4] There are seven categories of writings, [2] including

  8. Kodokushi - Wikipedia

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    Kodokushi (孤独死) or lonely death is a Japanese phenomenon of people dying alone and remaining undiscovered for a long period of time. [1] First described in the 1980s, [ 1 ] kodokushi has become an increasing problem in Japan, attributed to economic troubles and Japan's increasingly elderly population .

  9. Otsuichi - Wikipedia

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    Despite calling the 5 years at the college "the gloomiest in all of his life," [5] during summer vacation when he was around 15 years old, he read the first volume of the light novel series Slayers by Hajime Kanzaka which he borrowed from a friend and discovered his love of reading, and began dabbling into the world of light novels and manga. [6]