继续Rashomon ：雨后

日本 · Ryūnosuke Akutagawa · Japan

Continue In a Grove: the fourth testimony

Three testimonies, three truths: the bandit, the wife, the dead man speaking through a medium. Akutagawa's 'In a...

日本 · The Tale of the Heike · Japan

Continue the Heike: after Dan-no-ura

The Taira clan is destroyed at Dan-no-ura; the child emperor drowns with the imperial sword. 'The sound of the Gion...

日本 · Natsume Sōseki · Japan

Continue Kokoro: after the letter

Sensei is dead, the student inherits his confession and his guilt. Sōseki's Kokoro ends with a letter — the past...

日本 · Sei Shōnagon · Japan

Continue the Pillow Book: after the court

Sei Shōnagon's pillow book is a thousand years of lists: elegant things, hateful things, things that make the heart...