Ueno

is for the eyes, a park with a view, as compared with Asakusa, which is for the mouth, a park for eating and drinking.

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.’

is silent, mute; Asakusa chatters on and on.

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.’

ueno, n.Definitions

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