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narcasse"Japan is a great distance from China – separated by a myriad ri and a great ocean. It is only after a fashion [in poetry] has waned in China that it comes to its height in Japan. Circumstances make that inevitable. In general we are about two hundred years behind."
- Emura Hokkai, Nihon Shishi
Cited by: Morris, I., ([1964], 1994), The World of the Shining Prince, p. 10, New York, Kodansha International.
- Emura Hokkai, Nihon Shishi
Cited by: Morris, I., ([1964], 1994), The World of the Shining Prince, p. 10, New York, Kodansha International.