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Reginald Horace Blyth

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Reginald Horace Blyth (3 December 1898 – 28 October 1964) was an English author and devotee of Japanese culture. [1]

81 relations: Akihito, Alan Watts, Aldous Huxley, Allen Ginsberg, Attack on Pearl Harbor, Beat Generation, Brain tumor, Camellia sasanqua, Carlos Castaneda, Christmas Humphreys, Citizenship, Complication (medicine), Conscientious objector, D. T. Suzuki, Death poem, Divinity, Donald Richie, Dorothy Wordsworth, Douglas MacArthur, E. E. Cummings, Enemy alien, Essex, Flute, Fukuda Chiyo-ni, Gakushuin University, Gary Snyder, Haiku, Haiku in English, Harold Gould Henderson, Henry David Thoreau, Henry Miller, Hirohito, HM Prison Dartmoor, HM Prison Wormwood Scrubs, Home Office, Humanity Declaration, Ilford County High School, Imagism, Imperial Household Agency, India, Internment, J. D. Salinger, Jack Kerouac, James William Hackett, Janwillem van de Wetering, Japanese poetry, Johann Sebastian Bach, Kamakura, Kanazawa, Kanazawa University, ..., Keijō Imperial University, Kobayashi Issa, Korea, Lawrence Durrell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Masaoka Shiki, Matsuo Bashō, Myōshin-ji, Order of the Sacred Treasure, Pneumonia, Princetown, Pure Land Buddhism, Rajneesh, Raymond Smullyan, Robert Anton Wilson, Robert Baker Aitken, Robert Shea, Seoul, St. Luke's International Hospital, Tōkei-ji, Tuttle Publishing, UCL Institute of Education, University of London, University of Tokyo, William J. Higginson, World War I, World War II, Yosa Buson, Yoshiwara, Zen, Zen master. Expand index (31 more) »

Akihito

is the current Emperor of Japan.

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Alan Watts

Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was a British philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and populariser of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience.

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Aldous Huxley

Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer, novelist, philosopher, and prominent member of the Huxley family.

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Allen Ginsberg

Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet, philosopher, writer, and activist.

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Attack on Pearl Harbor

The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, on the morning of December 7, 1941.

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Beat Generation

The Beat Generation was a literary movement started by a group of authors whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics in the post-World War II era.

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Brain tumor

A brain tumor occurs when abnormal cells form within the brain.

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Camellia sasanqua

Camellia sasanqua, with common name sasanqua camellia, is a species of Camellia native to China and Japan.

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Carlos Castaneda

Carlos Castaneda (December 25, 1925April 27, 1998) was an American author with a Ph.D. in anthropology.

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Christmas Humphreys

Travers Christmas Humphreys, QC (15 February 1901 – 13 April 1983) was an English barrister who prosecuted several controversial cases in the 1940s and 1950s, and later became a judge at the Old Bailey.

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Citizenship

Citizenship is the status of a person recognized under the custom or law as being a legal member of a sovereign state or belonging to a nation.

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Complication (medicine)

Complication, in medicine, is an unfavorable evolution or consequence of a disease, a health condition or a therapy.

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Conscientious objector

A conscientious objector is an "individual who has claimed the right to refuse to perform military service" on the grounds of freedom of thought, conscience, or religion.

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D. T. Suzuki

Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki (鈴木 大拙 貞太郎 Suzuki Daisetsu Teitarō; he rendered his name "Daisetz" in 1894; 18 October 1870 – 12 July 1966) was a Japanese author of books and essays on Buddhism, Zen (Chan) and Shin that were instrumental in spreading interest in both Zen and Shin (and Far Eastern philosophy in general) to the West.

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Death poem

The death poem is a genre of poetry that developed in the literary traditions of East Asian cultures—most prominently in Japan as well as certain periods of Chinese history and Joseon Korea.

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Divinity

In religion, divinity or godhead is the state of things that are believed to come from a supernatural power or deity, such as a god, supreme being, creator deity, or spirits, and are therefore regarded as sacred and holy.

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Donald Richie

Donald Richie (17 April 1924 – 19 February 2013) was an American-born author who wrote about the Japanese people, the culture of Japan, and especially Japanese cinema.

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Dorothy Wordsworth

Dorothy Mae Ann Wordsworth (25 December 1771 – 25 January 1855) was an English author, poet and diarist.

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Douglas MacArthur

Douglas MacArthur (26 January 18805 April 1964) was an American five-star general and Field Marshal of the Philippine Army.

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E. E. Cummings

Edward Estlin "E.

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Enemy alien

In customary international law, an enemy alien is any native, citizen, denizen or subject of any foreign nation or government with which a domestic nation or government is in conflict with and who are liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured and removed.

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Essex

Essex is a county in the East of England.

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Flute

The flute is a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group.

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Fukuda Chiyo-ni

Fukuda Chiyo-ni (Kaga no Chiyo) (福田 千代尼; 1703 - 2 October 1775) was a Japanese poet of the Edo period, widely regarded as one of the greatest poets of haiku (then called hokku).

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Gakushuin University

is a private university in Mejiro, Toshima Ward, Tokyo.

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Gary Snyder

Gary Snyder (born May 8, 1930) is an American man of letters.

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Haiku

(plural haiku) is a very short Japan poem with seventeen syllables and three verses.

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Haiku in English

A haiku in English is a very short poem in the English language, following to a greater or lesser extent the form and style of the Japanese haiku.

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Harold Gould Henderson

Harold Gould Henderson (1889–1974) was an American academic, art historian and Japanologist.

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Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau (see name pronunciation; July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American essayist, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian.

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Henry Miller

Henry Valentine Miller (December 26, 1891 – June 7, 1980) was an American writer, expatriated in Paris at his flourishing.

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Hirohito

was the 124th Emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession, reigning from 25 December 1926, until his death on 7 January 1989.

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HM Prison Dartmoor

HM Prison Dartmoor is a Category C men's prison, located in Princetown, high on Dartmoor in the English county of Devon.

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HM Prison Wormwood Scrubs

HM Prison Wormwood Scrubs (informally "The Scrubs") is a Category B men's prison located in the Wormwood Scrubs area of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, in inner West London, England.

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Home Office

The Home Office (HO) is a ministerial department of Her Majesty's Government of the United Kingdom, responsible for immigration, security and law and order.

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Humanity Declaration

The is an imperial rescript issued by the Emperor Shōwa (Hirohito) as part of a New Year’s statement on 1 January 1946 at the request of the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers.

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Ilford County High School

Ilford County High School (often abbreviated to ICHS) is a selective secondary grammar school for boys located in the Barkingside area of the London Borough of Redbridge.

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Imagism

Imagism was a movement in early 20th-century Anglo-American poetry that favored precision of imagery and clear, sharp language.

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Imperial Household Agency

The is an agency of the government of Japan in charge of state matters concerning the Imperial Family, and also keeping of the Privy Seal and State Seal of Japan.

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India

India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.

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Internment

Internment is the imprisonment of people, commonly in large groups, without charges or intent to file charges, and thus no trial.

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J. D. Salinger

Jerome David "J.

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Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac (born Jean-Louis Kérouac (though he called himself Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac); March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969) was an American novelist and poet of French-Canadian descent.

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James William Hackett

James William Hackett was an American poet born in Seattle, Washington on August 6, 1929, and is most notable for his work with haiku in English.

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Janwillem van de Wetering

Jan Willem Lincoln "Janwillem" van de Wetering (February 12, 1931 in Rotterdam – July 4, 2008 in Blue Hill, Maine) was the author of a number of works in English and Dutch.

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Japanese poetry

Japanese poetry is poetry of or typical of Japan, or written, spoken, or chanted in the Japanese language, which includes Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese, and Modern Japanese, and some poetry in Japan which was written in the Chinese language or ryūka from the Okinawa Islands: it is possible to make a more accurate distinction between Japanese poetry written in Japan or by Japanese people in other languages versus that written in the Japanese language by speaking of Japanese-language poetry.

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Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a composer and musician of the Baroque period, born in the Duchy of Saxe-Eisenach.

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Kamakura

is a city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.

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Kanazawa

is a city located in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan.

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Kanazawa University

is a national university of Japan in the city of Kanazawa, the capital of Ishikawa Prefecture.

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Keijō Imperial University

, or for short, was an Imperial University of Japan from 1924 to 1946.

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Kobayashi Issa

was a Japanese poet and lay Buddhist priest of the Jōdo Shinshū sect known for his haiku poems and journals.

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Korea

Korea is a region in East Asia; since 1945 it has been divided into two distinctive sovereign states: North Korea and South Korea.

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Lawrence Durrell

Lawrence George Durrell (27 February 1912 – 7 November 1990) was an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein (26 April 1889 – 29 April 1951) was an Austrian-British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language.

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Masaoka Shiki

, pen-name of Masaoka Noboru (正岡 升), was a Japanese poet, author, and literary critic in Meiji period Japan.

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Matsuo Bashō

, born 松尾 金作, then, was the most famous poet of the Edo period in Japan.

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Myōshin-ji

is a temple complex in Kyoto, Japan, and head temple of the associated branch of Rinzai Zen Buddhism.

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Order of the Sacred Treasure

The is a Japanese order, established on 4 January 1888 by Emperor Meiji as the Order of Meiji.

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Pneumonia

Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung affecting primarily the small air sacs known as alveoli.

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Princetown

Princetown is a villageDespite its name, Princetown is not classed as a town today – it is not included in the County Council's list of the 29 towns in Devon: in the Dartmoor national park in the English county of Devon.

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Pure Land Buddhism

Pure Land Buddhism (浄土仏教 Jōdo bukkyō; Korean:; Tịnh Độ Tông), also referred to as Amidism in English, is a broad branch of Mahayana Buddhism and one of the most widely practiced traditions of Buddhism in East Asia.

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Rajneesh

Rajneesh (born Chandra Mohan Jain, 11 December 1931 – 19 January 1990), also known as Acharya Rajneesh, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, and latterly as Osho, was an Indian godman and leader of the Rajneesh movement.

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Raymond Smullyan

Raymond Merrill Smullyan (May 25, 1919 – February 6, 2017) was an American mathematician, magician, concert pianist, logician, Taoist, and philosopher.

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Robert Anton Wilson

Robert Anton Wilson (born Robert Edward Wilson; January 18, 1932 – January 11, 2007) was an American author, novelist, essayist, editor, playwright, poet, futurist, and self-described agnostic mystic.

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Robert Baker Aitken

Robert Baker Dairyu Chotan Aitken Rōshi (June 19, 1917 – August 5, 2010) was a Zen teacher in the Harada-Yasutani lineage.

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Robert Shea

Robert Joseph Shea (February 14, 1933 - March 10, 1994) was an American novelist and former journalist best known as co-author with Robert Anton Wilson of the science fantasy trilogy Illuminatus!.

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Seoul

Seoul (like soul; 서울), officially the Seoul Special Metropolitan City – is the capital, Constitutional Court of Korea and largest metropolis of South Korea.

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St. Luke's International Hospital

is a general and teaching hospital located in the Tsukiji district of Chūō, Tokyo, Japan.

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Tōkei-ji

, also known as or, is a Buddhist temple and a former nunnery, the only survivor of a network of five nunneries called, in the city of Kamakura in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.

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Tuttle Publishing

Tuttle Publishing, originally the Charles E. Tuttle Company, is a book publishing company that includes Tuttle, Periplus Editions, and Journey Editions.

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UCL Institute of Education

The UCL Institute of Education (IOE) is the education school of University College London (UCL).

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University of London

The University of London (abbreviated as Lond. or more rarely Londin. in post-nominals) is a collegiate and a federal research university located in London, England.

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University of Tokyo

, abbreviated as or UTokyo, is a public research university located in Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan.

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William J. Higginson

William J. Higginson (December 17, 1938 – October 11, 2008) was an American poet, translator and author most notable for his work with haiku and renku, born in New York City.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Yosa Buson

was a Japanese poet and painter of the Edo period.

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Yoshiwara

Yoshiwara (吉原) was a famous in Edo, present-day Tōkyō, Japan.

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Zen

Zen (p; translit) is a school of Mahayana Buddhism that originated in China during the Tang dynasty as Chan Buddhism.

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Zen master

Zen master is a somewhat vague English term that arose in the first half of the 20th century, sometimes used to refer to an individual who teaches Zen Buddhist meditation and practices, usually implying longtime study and subsequent authorization to teach and transmit the tradition themselves.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald_Horace_Blyth

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