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Written in the 19th century and staged as various Kabuki plays and made into dozens of movies, a particularly scary scene is ...

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“GROWING IN THE mud, and yet so clean, the lotus is a symbol of purity,” writes the Sri Lankan historian Ananda K. Coomaraswamy in his 1913 book “The Arts and Crafts of India & Ceylon.” The lotus pool ...