Sarah Strong and Karen Colligan-Taylor both did work on Miyazawa Kenji. As did Takeo Hagiwara. And then there is a bunch of new stuff relating to ecocriticism, 3.11, and social activism.

I will read to you. It is lovely and sweet and best read out loud. I loved it, my niece loved it, and my grand-niece loved it. I bet you will too. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/gideo...

Thank you. I got distracted by my <likely last> toilet talk this week. There is some really good research in English now on Japanese toilet culture. It was a joy to catch up on it.