桜桃
太宰治
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太宰治 · Japanese
An autobiographical short story by Dazai Osamu (1948), written only months before the author took his own life.
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An autobiographical short story by Dazai Osamu (1948), written only months before the author took his own life. A bitter reflection on the vulnerability of a postwar Japanese father — wracked by self-contradiction, by drink born of despair, and by the quiet wounds inside a poor household raising three small children — delivered through Dazai's signature gallows humor and the line 'the parent matters more than the child.' The drinking and self-laceration here serve as a mirror to the trauma of early-Shōwa-postwar Japan, never as glorification.
Cherries
桜桃
太宰治 · Japanese
An autobiographical short story by Dazai Osamu (1948), written only months before the author took his own life.
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桜桃 太宰治 われ、山にむかいて、目を挙ぐ。 ――詩篇、第百二十一。 子供より親が大事、と思いたい。子供のために、などと古風な道学者みたいな事を殊勝らしく考えてみても、何、子供よりも、その親のほうが弱いのだ。少くとも、私の家庭においては、そうである。まさか、自分が老人になってから、子供に助けられ、世話になろうなどという図々しい虫のよい下心は、まったく持ち合わせてはいないけれども、この親は、その家庭において、常に子供たちのご機嫌ばかり伺っている。子供、といっても、私のところの子供たちは、皆まだひどく幼い。長女は七歳、長男は四歳、次女は一歳である。それでも、既にそれぞれ、両親を圧倒し掛けている。父と母は、さながら子供たちの下男下女の趣きを呈しているのである。 夏、家族全部三畳間に集まり、大にぎやか、大混乱の夕食をしたため、父はタオルでやたらに顔の汗を拭き、 「めし食って大汗かくもげびた事、と柳多留にあったけれども、どうも、こんなに子供たちがうるさくては、いかにお上品なお父さんといえども、汗が流れる」 と、ひとりぶつぶつ不平を言い出す。 母は、一歳の次女におっぱいを含ませながら、そうして、お
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Pagera Editor's Note
An autobiographical short story by Dazai Osamu (1948), written only months before the author took his own life. A bitter reflection on the vulnerability of a postwar Japanese father — wracked by self-contradiction, by drink born of despair, and by the quiet wounds inside a poor household raising three small children — delivered through Dazai's signature gallows humor and the line 'the parent matters more than the child.' The drinking and self-laceration here serve as a mirror to the trauma of early-Shōwa-postwar Japan, never as glorification.
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太宰治
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