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    Ho-ku-sa-i. ‘H’ and ‘k’ and ‘s’ for the san in three, the Japanese ‘i’ a close homonym to the German ‘e’. “Hokusai,” you say to yourself, soft consonants hitting the edge of your teeth that end in a hiss of sibilance. You taste the blueness of its sound, the wash of each sea-tinged vowel over your tongue; the navy of an infantry tunic wading waist-deep in rye fields.

    The making of the modern gun known as ‘Hokusai’, from plausible start to predetermined finish.

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