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Paradise in the Sea of Sorrow: Our Minamata Disease
Title of a 1960 semi-fictional novel by Michiko Ishimure about Minamata disease. Used as a proper noun.
石牟礼道子の『苦海浄土』は水俣病を描いた作品です。
Michiko Ishimure's 'Paradise in the Sea of Sorrow' is a work depicting Minamata disease.
The title combines 苦海 (sea of suffering, a Buddhist metaphor for the world of suffering) and 浄土 (pure land, paradise). The exact derivation is uncertain; it is the title of a specific literary work.