Sunrise and Other Stories

Five stories by Kunikida Doppo, from a teacher's lesson at dawn to a boyhood rivalry in drawing: quiet, searching fiction about the lives people choose and the longings they cannot name.

A teacher's example turns the sunrise into a way of living. An apparently honest man exposes the gulf between his reputation and his conduct. Reading Wordsworth, a writer returns to the landscapes of his youth; another man discovers that his longing is for love itself. A remembered friendship gives the act of drawing its sorrow.

All five works complete and unabridged, newly translated from Japanese, with endnotes.