Sitting in the shade,
I look acoss the river
at a wall of eastern
pines; it could be several
hundred years ago.
The sun is shining there
and not a motor boat
has been invented yet.
And I remain unborn.
~Kokoro Sonzai 2010 (trans. Son Rivers)
Happa
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Happa wo kakeru is a Japanese phrase meaning, roughly, to bait or insult
someone into trying harder. I had always assumed that the happa was the
common J...
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