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fishing boats at new year

twenty-eight years and a million words

Miyazaki, 2020.01.12

Every new year, the locals have some days off. They decorate their boats with flags and pennants and these stripped-down bamboo or cedar saplings.

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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

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