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The Days and Nights – Short Stories by Fumiko Hayashi – Now in Paperback
“Obscured by the rain, Mount Fuji was not visible the entire day. But I knew that the moment the sky cleared, a massive mountain would appear before my eyes. As I looked out from the second floor, within the twilight mist a verdant, green cornfield stretched far into the distance.”
(Fumiko Hayashi, The Tryst)
Tsuchiya Koitsu, Evening Glow at Lake Sai, 1938
Last spring and this spring I had the pleasure of reading and reviewing two short story collections, “The Downfall and Other Stories” and “The Days and Nights” by a Japanese writer Fumiko Hayashi (1903-1951), translated by J.D.Wisgo. All the short stories were really beautiful and thoughtful, slightly tinged with melancholy, and the atmosphere conveyed in the stories lingers in your room long after you close the pages of the book. The author’s writing style is what really appeals to me, but the choice of motives is interesting as well. Hayashi writes about themes such as loneliness, fate, love, nostalgia and desolation in a way that is both simple and yet deep and thoughtful, the heaviness and lightness of life, the main theme of Milan Kundera’s novel “The Unbearable Li
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Fumiko Hayashi (author)
Japanese novelist and poet
Fumiko Hayashi (林芙美子, Hayashi Fumiko, December 31, 1903 – June 28, 1951) was a Japanese writer of novels, short stories and poetry, who has repeatedly been included in the feminist literature canon.[3] Among her best-known works are Diary of a Vagabond, Late Chrysanthemum and Floating Clouds.[1][2][4]
Biography
[edit]Hayashi was born in Moji-ku, Kitakyūshū,[a] Japan,[1][2] and raised in abject poverty.[5] In 1910, her mother Kiku Hayashi divorced her merchant husband Mayaro Miyata (who was not Fumiko's biological father) and married Kisaburo Sawai.[4] The family then worked as itinerant merchants in Kyūshū.[4]
After graduating from high school in 1922, Hayashi moved to Tokyo and lived with several men, supporting herself with a variety of jobs,[5][6] before settling into marriage with painting student Rokubin Tezuka in 1926.[4][7] During this time, she also helped launch the poetry magazine Futari.[4][7] Her autobiographical novel Diary of a Vagabond (Hōrōki), published in 1930, became a bestseller and gained her high popularity.[1]&#