The cherry among…
The cherry among flowers, the samurai among men. – Kanadehon Chūshingura; trans. by Hidesaburo Saito [斎藤秀三郎] (1866 – 1929) (Image by shell_ghostcage from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »


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