The title of this book, like its opening tanka sequence, was inspired by the Japanese poet and classical scholar at the end of the Edo period, Tachibana Akemi (1812 - 1868), who wrote 52 poems that begin with the phrase, tanoshimi wa, "how pleasant it is."
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