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Yū Miri

Japanese author

Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami

Japanese author

Endō Shūsaku

Endō Shūsaku

Japanese author

Mishima Yukio

Mishima Yukio

Japanese author

Ishihara Shintarō

Japanese writer and politician

Ōoka Shōhei

Ōoka Shōhei

Japanese author

Kitano Takeshi

Japanese actor, director, writer, and television personality

Ernest F. Fenollosa

American orientalist and art critic

Ōe Kenzaburō

Ōe Kenzaburō

Japanese writer

Bashō

Bashō

Japanese poet

Hearn, Lafcadio

Lafcadio Hearn

British-born writer and translator

Chikamatsu Monzaemon

Japanese dramatist

Uchida Shungicu

Japanese artist and author

Fukuzawa Yukichi.

Fukuzawa Yukichi

Japanese author, educator, and publisher

Arishima Takeo.

Arishima Takeo

Japanese writer

Abe Kōbō

Japanese author

Banana Yoshimoto

Banana Yoshimoto

Japanese writer

Kakinomoto Hitomaro

Kakinomoto Hitomaro

Japanese poet

Murasaki Shikibu

Murasaki Shikibu

Japanese courtier and author

Uno Chiyo

Japanese writer

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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:

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Japanese poet Kakinomoto no Hitomaro (Kakinomoto Hitomaro), woodblock print by Yashima Gakutei, c. 1820; in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul

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