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the reader comes to see “tu” as a stand-in for the narrator’s own self
Why have humans portrayed him like this
Previously unpopulated mountainous areas of the Japanese countryside are being leveled to accommodate new waves of people
merely by looking
" —Edmund White
The Budding Tree Markus Werner the reader comes to seeby Aiko Kitahara Translated by Ian MacDonald Publication Date: 12 01 2007 ISBN: 9781564784896 This Naoki Prize winning work is a personal yet precise account of the lives of working women in the Edo period (1600 1868). In the latter half of the Edo period, the warrior caste was finding itself pushed out of the top echelons of society by the rising merchant class, and repeated famines swept the countryside. Against this backdrop, a small number of