Stories, Plays & Essays
The Bedbug Diary and Other Essays
南京虫日記 ほか
Saitō Mokichi · 1926–1929 · translated by Valentin Sarić
Munich in the hungry year of 1923: a poor Japanese psychiatrist-poet hunts for a room free of bedbugs while news of the Great Kantō Earthquake trickles in by telegram. Seven essays by Saitō Mokichi, from the banks of the Isar to the slopes of Vesuvius and a night on Mount Kōya listening for a sacred bird.
A New English Translation by Valentin Sarić. AI-assisted translation.
65pages
1926–1929first published
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