Nipponese
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One minor craze in the current Nipponese nuptial season is the extravagant "performance" wedding.
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The Japanese, who spent more than $1 million for their pavilion, have included a pristine Nipponese garden with a languid stream flowing through it like a haiku.
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Seemingly inspired more by Italian comedy thin Nipponese realism, Hobo nonetheless makes some sharp comments on the present state of prosperous, overly Westernized Japan.
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An old Nipponese castle around a small lake, the pavilion demonstrates the manufacture of silk, parasols, dolls; offers a culinary oddity, tea ice-cream, nauseous grey-green in color, but pleasantly piquant in taste.
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The sanctity of learning, the inheritance in these bishops and priors of the merits of those who went before, has kept and keeps the appellation in the minds of the generations of the Nipponese.
From Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2 by De Benneville, James S. (James Seguin)
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