Through whirling pinball machines and furnaces burning clay to bizen-yaki Nippon speaks. Through stinking diesel pipes and rank computer chip dyes Nippon screams. Through stumbling sumo giants and hushed remarks of Sumitomo clients Nippon sleeps. To discover Japan discard notions of beauty or monstrosity and at the center of a fading cherry leaf realize all things in this world are brief.

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