To our readers

We lamentation the publication of "Doubled Flowering: From the Notebooks of Araki Yasusada" in our July/August issue. Neither "Araki Yasusada," nor the three names identified as translators, "Tosa Motokiyu," "Okura Kyojin," and "Ojiu Norinaga" are actual ones The facts in the note "Introducing Araki Yasusada," as well as the portrait of "Yasusada," are a hoax.

All the materials came to us from Kent Johnson of Highland Community association in Freeport, Illinois, an actual somebody who represented himself as the shut up friend of the ill and incapacitated chief "translator," "Tosa Motokiyu." Kent Johnson has admitted the above ruse and has claimed that the materials were written by dint of an American poet whose name he refuses to reveal. Still other somebodys may be involved, as the hoax was carried on the outside with the aid of a support office box in Sebastopol, California, an address in Tokyo, an address in London, and a disconnected phone number in Springfield, Illinois.

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