Stories, Plays & Essays
Rosary Beads and The Last Days of Akahiko
念珠集 島木赤彦臨終記
Saitō Mokichi · 1925–1926 · translated by Valentin Sarić
Saitō Mokichi's memories of his stubborn, pious farmer father in a snowbound Yamagata village, and his day-by-day account of the death of his friend and fellow poet Shimaki Akahiko in the spring of 1926. Two intimate prose records of loss by one of modern Japan's great tanka poets.
A New English Translation by Valentin Sarić. AI-assisted translation.
59pages
1925–1926first published
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