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podcasts. Hello and welcome to the History of Japan podcast.

Episode 249, Every Day is a Journey.

This week, I want to take some time to highlight one of the most influential literary figures

in Japanese history.

A man so famous, his name, if not his works themselves, are generally fairly well known outside

of Japan itself.

I'd hesitated to do this episode for a long time, because the medium of his work, poetry,

doesn't lend itself well to the format of this particular show.

Japanese poetry works best in, well, Japanese, keeping the flow and style of the original

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