Vol. 3June 2026
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The Tale of the Fountain

噴水物語

岡本かの子 · Japanese

Okamoto Kanoko's late-Taishō to early Shōwa short prose set in 1930s London.

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Okamoto Kanoko's late-Taishō to early Shōwa short prose set in 1930s London. The Japanese narrator visits Mr. Roger, an aging English interior designer, and his young poet wife Edna, who has installed an unconventional new indoor fountain. Edna insists that only the great fountains of Europe reveal the four Greek water-nymphs—Prymno, Kallirrhoe, Acaste, Plexaure—and dismisses Conan Doyle's spiritualism in favor of her own rational aesthetic transcendence. A delicate meditation on art, perception, and the asymmetry of marriage.

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