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Kawabata uses the Tea Ceremony almost as a character in Thousand Cranes, because it is the setting for which most of the book takes place. We first meet Kikuji Mitani on his way to a Tea Ceremony that is in memory of his father, given by one his father's mistresses, Chikako. At this ceremony we meet all the characters in the book, and we feel the tension between them almost immediately. Chikako is not only hosting the Tea Ceremony but is acting as a matchmaker between Kikuji and her student in t
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Traditional Japanese people are such interesting creatures. It is enlightening to read about them even if they are fictional as is the case here.
When you come back and re-read a book 15 years later and you don't remember anything and realize that you might just pick it up again in fifteen years, because you forgot you read it the first two times . . .
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I feel like I missed many of the cultural nuances, but still enjoyed its minimalism.
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