Vol. 5August 2026

すみだ川

永井荷風

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The River Sumida

すみだ川

永井荷風 · Japanese

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永井荷風

Nagai Kafū (1879-1959) was a Japanese novelist who spent his career recording a Tokyo that was disappearing. A Strange Tale from East of the River and his forty-year diary set the pleasure quarters and back alleys of the old city against the modernity replacing them.

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