“The true joy of a moonlit night is something we no longer understand. Only the men of old, when there were no lights, could understand the true joy of a moonlit night.”

— Yasunari Kawabata, book Palm-of-the-Hand Stories

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Japanese author, Nobel Prize winner 1899–1972

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