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Demodochus's avatar

As an appendix, Japanese literature changes towards the later 1800s when Isolationism ends and the Americans are able to exchange literary ideals. One example of this is Yone Noguchi, who travelled to America to live with the Great Poet of the Sierras: Joaquin Miller. His novel The American Diary of a Japanese Girl details this experience. Noguchi was also friends with Arthur Ransome the great M15 spy and author of the wonderful Swallows and Amazons series, close friend of ER Eddison and mentor to MP Shiel. WB Yeats, in 1896-7 plagiarized several hokku poems from Noguchi as well. From the end of Japanese isolation to the introduction of Noguchi in America, we can see how this model has slightly crept into the American conscious today. When and how, most specifically.

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Reterritorialise's avatar

756AD is later than I would have thought

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