Tangerines
蜜柑
芥川竜之介 · Japanese
A weary narrator boards an evening train from Yokosuka until a shabby country girl tosses a handful of tangerines from the window to her younger brothers.
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A weary narrator boards an evening train from Yokosuka until a shabby country girl tosses a handful of tangerines from the window to her younger brothers. Akutagawa Ryunosuke at his most lyrical.
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芥川竜之介
Akutagawa Ryūnosuke (1892-1927) was a Japanese writer and the master of the modern short story in Japanese. Rashōmon, In a Grove and The Spider's Thread rework old tales into studies of self-interest and unreliable truth. He took his own life at thirty-five, citing a vague unease about the future, and Japan's foremost literary prize carries his name.
Tangerines
蜜柑
芥川竜之介 · Japanese
A weary narrator boards an evening train from Yokosuka until a shabby country girl tosses a handful of tangerines from the window to her younger brothers.
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或曇つた冬の日暮である。私は横須賀發上り二等客車の隅に腰を下して、ぼんやり發車の笛を待つてゐた。とうに電燈のついた客車の中には、珍らしく私の外に一人も乘客はゐなかつた。外を覗くと、うす暗いプラットフォオムにも、今日は珍らしく見送りの人影さへ跡を絶つて、唯、檻に入れられた小犬が一匹、時時悲しさうに、吠え立ててゐた。これらはその時の私の心もちと、不思議な位似つかはしい景色だつた。私の頭の中には云ひやうのない疲勞と倦怠とが、まるで雪曇りの空のやうなどんよりした影を落してゐた。私は外套のポケットへぢつと兩手をつつこんだ儘、そこにはひつてゐる夕刊を出して見ようと云ふ元氣さへ起らなかつた。 が、やがて發車の笛が鳴つた。私はかすかな心の寛ぎを感じながら、後の窓枠へ頭をもたせて、眼の前の停車場がずるずると後ずさりを始めるのを待つともなく待ちかまへてゐた。所がそれよりも先にけたたましい日和下駄の音が、改札口の方から聞え出したと思ふと、間もなく車掌の何か云ひ罵る聲と共に、私の乘つてゐる二等室の戸ががらりと開いて十三四の小娘が一人、慌しく中へはひつて來た。と同時に一つづしりと搖れて、徐に汽車は動き出した。一
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Pagera Editor's Note
A weary narrator boards an evening train from Yokosuka until a shabby country girl tosses a handful of tangerines from the window to her younger brothers. Akutagawa Ryunosuke at his most lyrical.
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芥川竜之介
Akutagawa Ryūnosuke (1892-1927) was a Japanese writer and the master of the modern short story in Japanese. Rashōmon, In a Grove and The Spider's Thread rework old tales into studies of self-interest and unreliable truth. He took his own life at thirty-five, citing a vague unease about the future, and Japan's foremost literary prize carries his name.
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