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Ernest F. Fenollosa
American orientalist and art critic
Hearn, Lafcadio
Lafcadio Hearn
British-born writer and translator
Futabatei Shimei
Japanese author
Tsubouchi Shōyō
Japanese author
Arthur David Waley
British translator
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Klabund
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