A few years ago a friend took me to Samurai, a jazz bar in Tokyo’s Shinjuku district whose owner, a haiku poet, stood behind the bar surrounded by thousands ofmaneki neko—smiling, waving cat figurines. He had a primitive video camera trained on the sleeve of the record album he was...
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