The Teacher and Other Stories

Six stories by the author of Soil, newly translated.

A provincial science teacher listens to a colleague's story of how he came to teach. An old villager and his dog outlive their quarrels with the neighbors. A girl on an embankment, a charcoal burner's daughter, a scar from a long walk at eighteen, and a pair of gourds in a melon patch: Nagatsuka Takashi's short fiction turns the exact looking of the Shiki school on the lives of country people.

Included: The Teacher (1909), Taju and His Dog (1910), Ofusa of the Embankment (1909), The Charcoal Burner's Daughter (1906), The Mark of the Wound (1906), White Gourds and Green Gourds (1912). Complete and unabridged, with endnotes and a translator's note.