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Ruikō Kuroiwa: 1 works in the original Japanese, with translation

Kuroiwa Shūroku, also known as Kuroiwa Ruikō (29 September 1862 – 6 October 1920), was a Japanese journalist, novelist and translator. He founded Yorozu Chōhō in 1892, which soon became one of Japan's largest newspapers, and translated more than 100 French and English novels into Japanese.

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嚆矢 無惨

From the Zhuangzi, chapter "Zai You": "How do we know that Zeng and Shi were not the signal arrows of Jie and Zhi?" The word originally meant a whistling arrow: because the sound arrives before the arrow when it is shot, in Japanese it came to mean the beginning or forerunner of something.