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Cover of my copy of Ueda Akinari's
Ugetsu Monogatari (Tales of Moonlight
and Rain), bought in Japan |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Ueda Akinari (1734; died August 8, 1809) Japanese author;
Ugetsu Monogatari (
Tales of Rain and the Moon);
Harusame Monogatari (
Tales of Spring Rain)
Frank Waters (1902; died June 3, 1995) American writer; novels:
The Man Who Killed the Deer;
The Yogi of Cockroach Court;
The Woman at Otowi Crossing; also,
Book of The Hopi;
Pumpkin Seed Point
Died on this day:
Thomas à Kempis (1471; born Unknown Date, 1380) Dutch monk who wrote
The Imitation of Christ
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1834; born October 21, 1772) English poet and philosopher;
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner;
Christabel;
Kubla Khan;
Biographia Literaria
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