¡Hoshi to Matsuri
¡Inoe Yasushi / [Cho]
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[Machine Translation] Company president Kikiyama loses his precious daughter in an accident on Lake Biwa. His daughter's body has not been recovered even after seven years. Unable to accept death, Kikayama sees it as a period of "struggle" that exists between life and death, and begins a dialogue with his daughter in his mind. One day, he is invited by Omiura, the father of the young man who died with his daughter, to an old temple near Lake Biwa, where he encounters the eleven-faced Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva. Hearing that "Kannon is a Buddha in training who has taken it upon himself to save people from their troubles and suffering," Kikiyama becomes captivated by the eleven-faced Kannon and begins to visit the eleven-faced Kannon by the lake. In the meantime, he is invited to a moon-watching trip in the Himalayas, and decides to go to the Himalayas to have a private dialogue with his daughter. Kikiyama feels "Eternity" in the snow-capped mountains, which shine divinely in the moonlight. Kikayama accepts his daughter's death as "fate" and tries to overcome his grief, while Omiura joins his hands to repose the souls of the dead. Through these two fathers, this moving full-length novel painstakingly depicts "how to mourn for loved ones.
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