Autumn at the Monastery and Other Stories

Seven short stories by Nanbu Shūtarō (1892-1936), a member of Akutagawa Ryūnosuke's circle and editor of Mita Bungaku. A young writer's pilgrimage to a Trappist monastery; a night of confessions among former classmates; a schoolboy's portrait of an eccentric teacher; a night march and a fallen rifle; a husband's unsent memoir about a doubt born in an operating room; a lottery-bond daydream; a painter, his wife and a wasp. Complete, with endnotes.