1. Perhaps each and every one of you have gone to a bookstore not actually check through a few books but rather to inhale that peaceful and alluring smell of the ink on paper akin to an incense itself. Guess what? The English language has a proper word to describe this “addiction” called: “Bibliosmia”!
2. This is an interesting word which may shock a lot of you: “Tsundoku” (積ん読). It is made up of 2 separate words: 「積んでおく」(Tsundeoku) which means “to pile up” and 「読書」(Dokusho) which means “to read”. This word refers to people who buy a pile of books only to never read them.
3. Critically acclaimed Japanese writer Dazai Osamu (famous for “Schoolgirl”, “No longer human”, …) is terribly fearful of dogs, to the point of him writing a custom pen named “bastard dog”. In contrast, Kawabata Yasunari (author of “Snow Country”, “Thousand Cranes”, “The Lake”, …) loves to play with dogs.
4. There are also Japanese authors who are a fan of cats, a prime example being Nakajima Atsushi (exemplary works include “The Moon Over The Mountain”, “Light, wind, and dreams”, …) or Haruki Murakami whose stories have lots of cats appear in, and he even owned a bar named “Peter Cat”.
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