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 Shōja bells echoes the impermanence of all things.' Continue: Japan after the Taira — who remembers them, and how?
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日本 · Ryūnosuke Akutagawa · Japan
Continue Rashomon: after the rain
The servant steps out into the rain, and Akutagawa ends there — Rashomon's gate, the rain, a choice we never see....
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...