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Article: Sewing without mother: a zuihitsu. (autobiography)
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- TriQuarterly
- Article date:
- September 22, 1997
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As with tending a newborn, the days pass slowly, the months quickly. With each new season we all, even the littlest, recognize what Mother has missed since she died over a year ago and what we see through our loss. Even the bamboo shoots that father digs up with the girls and parboils for us to take home. Mother had suggested it and now we eat them thinking - how tender, how tender.
I think of famous writers such as Basho, Ki no Tsurayuki, Issa, Sei Shonagon - Kamo no Chomei's bubbles we read about in bungo class with Professor Varley, read even the annotations in Japanese. A decade ago. I am returning to the work now to see how they wrote diaries and miscellaneous ...
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