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Nothing happens, and everything happens. In the stillness between moments, Sōseki captures the ache of modern consciousness, the loneliness of being awake in a world that no longer believes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Another Country","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47677888463099,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0747\/2064\/1275\/files\/The-Gate.jpg?v=1762372348"},{"product_id":"the-gate-by-natsume-soseki-copy","title":"Moon Woke Me Up Nine Times by Matsuo Basho","description":"\u003ch3 data-start=\"278\" data-end=\"294\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"282\" data-end=\"294\"\u003eAVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"139\" data-end=\"350\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eMoon Woke Me Up Nine Times \u003c\/em\u003eis a tender, circular meditation on love, reincarnation, and the small miracles that structure ordinary life. Each poem reads as an echo of the last, quietly suggesting that meaning isn’t linear but cyclical.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"352\" data-end=\"799\"\u003eWritten by Matsuo Bashō, Japan’s most revered poet of the classical Edo period, this collection traces a life spent in motion. A bohemian wanderer of seventeenth-century Japan, Bashō predates Jack Kerouac by nearly three centuries. Where Kerouac wrote in fevered jazz-fueled bursts, Bashō wrote in short, enigmatic prose—\u003cem\u003ehaiku\u003c\/em\u003e (then known as \u003cem data-start=\"700\" data-end=\"707\"\u003ehokku\u003c\/em\u003e) and linked-verse \u003cem\u003erenku\u003c\/em\u003e—composing his journeys as meditations rather than manifestos.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"801\" data-end=\"1075\"\u003eBashō is a poet equally attuned to the subtleties of the natural world and the humility of human endeavors. 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This tumultuous period of change was marked by growing contact (and conflict) with the West and a parallel effort to redefine what it meant to be Japanese in a modernizing world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Another Country","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47678262018299,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0747\/2064\/1275\/files\/Dictionary-Color-Combinations-Volume-2.jpg?v=1762379802"},{"product_id":"dictionary-of-color-combinations-volume-2-by-sanzo-wada-copy","title":"NYRB | Once And Forever by Kenji Miyazawa","description":"\u003ch3 data-end=\"294\" data-start=\"278\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-end=\"294\" data-start=\"282\"\u003eAVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"139\" data-end=\"350\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eTales of farmers, foxes, and dreamers rendered in cosmic simplicity. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"139\" data-end=\"350\"\u003eMiyazawa is Japan’s answer to Saint-Exupéry, who wrote the beloved French children's story \u003cem\u003eLe Petit Prince\u003c\/em\u003e. He writes children’s stories for grown-ups: ecological, moral, and quietly transcendent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"139\" data-end=\"350\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eA modern fableist, deeply embedded in Japanese endemic folklore tradition, Miyazawa writes stories of caution and comedy,\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e many of which were later adapted into anime features,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e most notably \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Night_on_the_Galactic_Railroad\" title=\"Night on the Galactic Railroad\"\u003eNight on the Galactic Railroad\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. 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Punk, prophetic, and deeply disillusioned, she saw the collapse of gender, technology, and modern love long before we did. Reading her feels like catching up with a ghost, or an imaginary friend, at a bar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"987\" data-start=\"497\"\u003eJapan’s “it girl” of the 1960s and 70s, Suzuki’s life was as varied, fantastical, and bleak as her prose. If Eve Babitz chronicled Los Angeles through cigarettes, parties, and heartbreak, Suzuki did the same for postwar Tokyo, trading Hollywood glamour for Shinjuku neon, and sexual liberation for something stranger, colder, more existential. Both turned their lives into mythologies of desire and disillusionment; both blurred the line between muse and author, beauty and critique.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"987\" data-start=\"497\"\u003e–\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1282\" data-start=\"989\"\u003eInitially finding work as a typist, upon moving to Tokyo Suzuki began working as a hostess, a nude model, and acting in \u003cem data-end=\"1060\" data-start=\"1048\"\u003epink films\u003c\/em\u003e—soft-core pornographic films produced by the Yakuza—which led her to being “discovered” by Nobuyoshi Araki, the Japanese erotic photographer with whom she cultivated a decade-long working relationship.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1574\" data-start=\"1284\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eShe broke into science fiction’s male-dominated writing scene almost by accident, bringing with her a voice that alternated between rawness, sarcasm, and tenderness. 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She made the speculative feel intimate, the erotic feel existential.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1919\" data-end=\"2175\"\u003eAfter a tortuous marriage to the experimental jazz musician Kaoru Abe—who died of a Bromisoval overdose in 1978, just a year after their divorce—Suzuki took her own life in 1986 at the age of thirty-six, the same age as Princess Diana and Marilyn Monroe. Their chaotic relationship haunts her first novel, \u003cem data-start=\"2228\" data-end=\"2262\"\u003eSet My Heart on Fire Immediately\u003c\/em\u003e (1983), and later inspired Kōji Wakamatsu’s film \u003cem data-start=\"2312\" data-end=\"2327\"\u003eEndless Waltz \u003c\/em\u003e(1995).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"2088\" data-start=\"1780\"\u003eLike Babitz, Suzuki understood that style as a form of truth-telling. And like all futurists, she wasn’t predicting what was to come, but describing what was already here...only no one else could see it, yet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"4529\" data-start=\"4279\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Another Country","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47678301208827,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0747\/2064\/1275\/files\/Terminal-Boredom.jpg?v=1762382099"},{"product_id":"set-my-heart-on-fire-immediately-by-izumi-suzuki","title":"Set My Heart on Fire by Izumi Suzuki","description":"\u003ch3 data-start=\"278\" data-end=\"294\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"282\" data-end=\"294\"\u003eAVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"495\" data-start=\"160\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThe first novel of Izumi Suzuki, published in 1983, is perhaps her most desolate: a visceral account of mistaken relationships, the convolutions of desire, and the failed promise of subterranean musical rebellion. 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