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This week, I'm going to recommend

the narrow road to the interior and Hojoki

by Matsua Basha and Kamo Chomei, narrated by Tolgoi Gha.

So these are two of the most famous works of poetry in Japanese history.

The narrow road to the interior or the narrow road to the deep north or Okuno Hosomichi is, of course,

Bosho's magnum opus, and Hojoki is one of the most famous works

of the much earlier poet, Kamun Ochole, who will definitely do something on at some point.

They're both classics, and now you can check him out on the go by going to audible trial.com

slash Japan.

Okay. by going to audible trial.com slash Japan. Hello and welcome to the History of Japan podcast.

Episode 238.

What a strange thing.

All right, I have a confession to make to you all.

You see, simply put, I don't really like poetry.

I have nothing against it, but my experience with poetry and my own education was pretty uniformly a negative one.

It involved a lot of time reading works like Howell or the various jottings of the notoriously confusing T.S. Eliot,

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