Reading Satow

Reading Sir Ernest Satow's Private Letters to W.G. Aston and F.V. Dickins. Japanologist, interpreter - they make the difference between interpreting and translation. A month before going to Italy, Satow announces he will spend some time learning the language. Comme ça. without the Internet. Long letters, slow motioned like slow food. Pre-140 signs era. One thing doesn't change is the nostalgia for how Japan was when one stumbled upon it first time. These days, Japan looks just like on the video over YouTube.

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