The Story of Weaving a Boat (original Work of the Movie of the Same Name)
by Miura Shion
About This Novel
The acclaimed film of the same name, starring Ryuhei Matsuda, Aoi Miyazaki, and Joe Odagiri, swept the 37th Japan Film Academy Awards and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The work of Miura Shion, winner of the Naoki Prize, won the NO.1 Japan Bookstore Award. Xuanwu Shufang planned to publish a medium-sized dictionary "Daduhai" for contemporary people. This work was presided over by Mr. Matsumoto, an experienced and meticulous scholar. Unexpectedly, his most valued editor, Araki Koji, had reached the age of retirement and chose to go home to take care of his sick wife. At this time, the only people in the editorial department were the impetuous Masashi Nishioka and the temporary worker Sasaki. Araki and Nishioka searched many places and finally fell in love with Ma Diguangya, a young man in the sales department who was not good at interacting with people but had a keen awareness of words and was extremely dedicated to his work. In the vast ocean of words, Ma Di and his colleagues spent fifteen years building a boat sailing to the other shore. They are willing to be lonely, but they also reap precious happiness...
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Official(3)Scraped 23d ago
This is a kind of romance that belongs to text editors. Traveling in the paper covered with dense handwriting, in order to connect with the dead and the people who have not yet been born, people create words.
When sailing in the boundless sea of words, we must not be careless when weaving a boat, because if we are not careful, the boat rider will fall into the sea of words.
The so-called boat compilation is to compile a large dictionary called Daduhai. If words are compared to the ocean, and the dictionary is a boat carrying people across the sea, this is a very beautiful implication.
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Official(3)Scraped 23d ago
This is a kind of romance that belongs to text editors. Traveling in the paper covered with dense handwriting, in order to connect with the dead and the people who have not yet been born, people create words.
When sailing in the boundless sea of words, we must not be careless when weaving a boat, because if we are not careful, the boat rider will fall into the sea of words.
The so-called boat compilation is to compile a large dictionary called Daduhai. If words are compared to the ocean, and the dictionary is a boat carrying people across the sea, this is a very beautiful implication.
