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Question

In The Tale of Genji, one of these animals named Okinamaro is temporarily exiled from the palace until the Emperor forgives it after it starts crying. For 10 points each:

[10h] What animals also name a group of warriors that title a Kyokutei Bakin novel set during the Ashikaga period that is considered the longest novel in Japanese history?

ANSWER: dogs [accept Nansō Satomi Hakkenden, The Eight Dog Chronicles, Tale of Eight Dogs, or Biographies of Eight Dogs; accept inu]

[10e] The narrator falls in love with a girl who dies after contracting the plague from the village dog Leo in this author’s novel Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids. This author also wrote the semi-autobiographical novel A Personal Matter.

ANSWER: Kenzaburo Oe (“OH-ay”)

[10m] A dog named after Charles Lindbergh is gifted to Hiroshi, the son of Kaname and Misako in this Jun’ichirō Tanizaki novel. Kaname gets drawn into his father-in-law’s obsession with Bunraku theater in this novel.

ANSWER: Some Prefer Nettles [accept Tade kū mushi]

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California (South)	Main Site	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Canada	Main Site	Y	9	15.56	89%	67%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	3	13.33	67%	67%	0%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	7	17.14	71%	57%	43%
Northeast	Main Site	Y	4	20.00	100%	75%	25%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	3	13.33	100%	0%	33%
UK	Main Site	Y	9	7.78	78%	0%	0%

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UCLA A	UCSD B	0	10	10	20
UCLA B	UCSD A	0	10	0	10
Carleton University	Toronto Metropolitan	0	10	10	20
Guelph	McMaster A	0	10	10	20
Queen's	Toronto B	0	10	0	10
Brock	Toronto D	0	10	10	20
Toronto E	Simon Fraser	0	0	0	0
Waterloo B	Toronto F	0	10	0	10
UBC A	McGill B	0	10	10	20
Ottawa	UBC B	0	10	10	20
Waterloo A	McGill A	0	10	10	20
North Carolina B	South Carolina B	0	0	0	0
Virginia Tech A	Virginia	0	10	10	20
William and Mary	Virginia Tech B	0	10	10	20
Indiana B	Chicago E	0	10	0	10
Chicago B	Chicago D	0	0	0	0
Chicago A	Chicago C	10	10	10	30
Northwestern D	Notre Dame B	10	0	0	10
Illinois B	Purdue A	0	10	10	20
Illinois A	Illinois C	10	10	10	30
Brandeis A	Harvard B	0	10	0	10
MIT	Brandeis B	0	10	10	20
Brown	Yale	10	10	10	30
Iowa State	Carleton College	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech A	Missouri A	0	10	0	10
Washington A	Claremont	10	10	0	20
Birmingham	LSE	0	10	0	10
Cambridge A	Imperial A	0	10	0	10
Manchester	Cambridge B	0	10	0	10
Cambridge C	Oxford C	0	0	0	0
Imperial B	Durham	0	10	0	10
Bristol	Edinburgh A	0	10	0	10
Montpellier	UCL	0	10	0	10
Oxford A	Warwick A	0	10	0	10
Warwick B	City St. George's	0	0	0	0
Harvard A	Bowdoin A	0	10	10	20
Indiana A	Northwestern B	0	10	10	20