Japan and Donald Keene

[Samurai_Jerk]

"Who's your daddy?"

Well, maybe not...as a friend pointed out, there's not likely to be too many nanogenerian tops around.

"Who's your great granddaddy?"

[Russell]

Keene adopts shamisen player as son

Son?
I suspect the professor's keenness may actually extend to Seiki's seiki...

Kyodo must surely be reporting tongue-in-cheek? Japan has had gay marriage for far longer than anywhere else and Keene and his seiki are displaying precisely how it is done. I suspect that awareness of traditional Japanese arts extends beyond joruri and that Keene's seiki may also be proficient in shakuhachi.

Hmm, technically that would be incest.

Isn't there a law in Japan against that?!?

[Taro Toporific]

"Who's your daddy?"

Well, maybe not...as a friend pointed out, there's not likely to be too many nanogenerian tops around.

Famed Japanese literature scholar Donald Keene dies at 96 of the world's worst comb-over
The Japan Times | Feb. 24, 2019
A prominent U.S.-born Japanese literature scholar Donald Keene, who introduced a number of Japanese talented writers to the world, died of cardiac arrest at a Tokyo hospital on Sunday. He was 96...more...

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About his life: https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-topics/ ... ature.html

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Donald Keene (standing at center) pictured with Japanese-American
subordinates during the time

[matsuki]

“I am glad that I had the chance to contribute to a basic understanding in the West of Japanese literature, and of Japanese culture in general,” he wrote.

Well....

[jingai]

I'm very sad to hear of his passing. He was a giant in the field and I used his books to learn about Japanese literature and history. What a life he had!