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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 6672548" data-attributes="member: 82106">I think we're saying exactly the same thing, give or take. I will say, I don't know that I agree that Japanese and Chinese are related at all, at least linguistically. Japanese has borrowed a lot of words over the last 2000 years from Chinese, but at its heart they are utterly different. Its hard for me to say much about how really similar their poetry is, since I can barely read a tiny bit of modern simplified Chinese and I don't know zip about Japanese. There are perhaps some areas of sensibility that are shared between them, perhaps. My wife is Chinese and reads a lot of old literature, she probably has a whole completely other opinion! (don't get her started on the Japanese, they're NOT a popular subject with the Chinese!). Sorry for the digression...</blockquote>