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Episode image is a detail from the cover of Thousand Cranes by Yasumari Kawabata, translated by Edward G. Seidensticker and published by Penguin Classics in 2011; cover photograph by Rinko Kawauchi.
Joining Charles Adrian for the 88th Second Hand Book Factory is artist, designer, musician and all-round creative Satoshi Dāté. They talk about a kind of self-help literature, a very particular strain of Englishness and a lot of origami cranes. Satoshi reads in Japanese so there is ear porn on offer for language addicts.
Incidentally, Charles Adrian asks Satoshi about his age in this episode; Satoshi could simply have pointed him to this blog post.
You can find some of Satoshi’s work on Not Just A Label here.
Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata is also discussed in Page One 187.
Episode released: 24th May, 2016.
Book listing:
Kōfukumono (A Happy Man) by Saneatsu Mushanokōji
It Shouldn’t Happen To A Vet by James Herriot
Sembazuru (Thousand Cranes) by Yasunari Kawabata
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