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While reading you may find mistakes, misinterpretations, translationese, or parts that are just poorly written. Though I’m no longer a student, I’m still new at this. The main goal of this blog is to bring undertranslated authors and ideas to a new audience, but it’s also a way for me to practice and improve, so please let me know if you find something wrong or strange.

AKUTAGAWA Ryūnosuke (芥川 龍之介).

• The Nose (excerpt). 1916.

DAZAI Osamu (太宰 治).

• Diary of Distress (悶悶日記). 1936.
• The Sea (海).
• Butterflies (蝶蝶). 1935.

FURUKAWA Hideo.

• Horses, Horses, Despite Everything The Light is Still Pure (馬たちよ、それでも光は無垢で）(excerpt). 2011. Collaborative translation at the British Centre for Literary Translation Summer School 2012.

HAYASHI Fumiko (林 芙美子).

• Flounder School (ひらめの学校）.
• Breakfast (朝御飯).
• Lake Mashū Journals (摩周湖記行).

ISHIKAWA Takuboku (石川 啄木).

• Poems from Sad Toys (悲しき玩具). Parts: one, two, three. 1912.

KAJII Motojirō (梶井 基次郎).

• Beneath the Cherry Trees (桜の樹の下には). 1927.
• Blue Sky (蒼穹). 1928.

MATSUI Sumako (松井 須磨子).

• An Unforgettable Moment (忘れ難きことども). 1918.

MIYAMOTO Yuriko (宮本 百合子).

• Crossing the New Siberia (新しきシベリアを横切る). 1931.
• Soviet “Workers’ Clubs” (ソヴェトの「労働者クラブ」). 1931.
• On The Fascistization of Bourgeois Writers (ブルジョア作家のファッショ化に就て). 1932.
• The State of Moscow: Christmas There (モスクワの姿――あちらのクリスマス). 1931.
• On War and Female Writers (戦争と婦人作家). 1948.

OKAMOTO Kanoko (岡本 かの子).

• The Ways of Young Women Today (現代若き女性気質集).

TAKAO Keiko (高尾 慶子).

• English newspapers: being interviewed (excerpt). 2004.

TANIKAWA Shuntarō (谷川 俊太郎).

• Dusk.

TERADA Torahiko (寺田 寅彦).

• Nishina Rhapsody March (二科狂想行進曲). 1928.

TSUTSUI Yasutaka (筒井 康隆).

• The Mixed-Up Encyclopedic Literary Dictionary (乱調文学大辞典) (excerpt). 1986.

WATAYA Risa (綿矢 りさ).

• The Back I Want to Kick (蹴りたい背中) (excerpt). 2003.