Vol. 5August 2026

桜の森の満開の下

坂口安吾

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In the Forest, Under Cherries in Full Bloom

桜の森の満開の下

坂口安吾 · Japanese

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坂口安吾

Sakaguchi Ango (1906-1955) was a Japanese novelist and essayist associated with the Buraiha, the postwar writers who rejected the old pieties. His 1946 essay Discourse on Decadence told a defeated nation that survival was not shameful, and his fiction, including In the Forest, Under Cherries in Full Bloom, turns beauty into something dangerous.

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