Asakusa

is a place that chatters on and on: Ueno, by contast, is mute.

But the poet knows. The places are really not at all alike. The nov- elist Saito Ryoku (as quoted by Edward Seidensticker) wrote: ‘Ueno is for the eyes, a park with a view; Asakusa is for the mouth, a park for eating and drinking . . . Ueno is silent, mute; Asakusa chatters on and on.’

is for the mouth, a park for eating and drinking. Ueno, by contast, is for the eyes, a park with a view.

But the poet knows. The places are really not at all alike. The novelist Saito Ryoku (as quoted by Edward Seidensticker) wrote: ‘Ueno is for the eyes, a park with a view; Asakusa is for the mouth, a park for eating and drinking . . . Ueno is silent, mute; Asakusa chatters on and on.’

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