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DG: Now what's your father's name?

BU: Huh?

DG: What was your father's name?

BU: Shigejiro.

DG: Shigejiro Uyeno.

BU: Nobody knows him by Shigejiro. He has a pen name. He's best known for his poetry, senryuu. Senryuu is like haiku. It's five-seven-five. And he was a master of it. And he, he also wrote a book just before he died, which is... and I'm going to give that to the Japanese, Japanese museum.

DG: So he did belong to a club here?

BU: Yeah, he belonged to it. He was the head of it. He was a sensei.

DG: What, what was that? Senryuu.

BU: The senryuu no club.

DG: Was it...

BU: It was called the Hokubei Ginsha.

DG: Oh.

BU: And he was a teacher. He, at the club they make poetry, then he'd correct it. And he wrote at eighty years of senryuu poetry into a book on his eightieth birthday. So that's all right.

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