Zuihitsu, or "following the brush," is a genre of Japanese literature dating from the Heian period (794-1185). Writers would loosely string together observations, recollections, musings, humorous stories, and bits of poetry, creating works that often had implicit themes such as the ephemeral nature of life, but could also be read as a series of more or less random jottings.
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Although Tokyo dwarfs the other top megacities of Mumbai, Mexico City, Sao Paulo and New York, it has less air pollution, noise, traffic jams, litter or crime, lots of green space and a humming public transport system.
— Tokyo, the megacity that works - Yahoo! News (via durf)
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