¡Akai Hana(Shogakukan Bunko)
¡Tsuge Yoshiharu
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[Machine Translation] This is a collection of short stories that summarizes over 20 years of Yoshiharu Tsuge's creative activities. From the heartwarming "The Old Book and the Girl" in his early days to "A View of the Neighborhood" in the 1980s, his kaleidoscopic world is here. There is a teahouse on a mountain pass where a girl is the sole keeper of the house. One day, a man stopped by the teahouse on a fishing trip. While he is resting for a while, Masaji, a classmate of the girl, comes there. Guided by Masaji, the man heads for a hole for landlocked salmon, but along the way he sees a strange red flower growing in clusters. In the meantime, they arrive at the hole, and Masaji leaves the man and heads back along the mountain road. Masaji sees the girl at the teahouse squatting in the shallow end of the river. In front of Masaji's eyes, a stream of fresh blood from the girl's buttocks flows down, swallowing many falling red flowers... ( Episode 1 ). A beautiful woman lies down beside a man sunbathing. He likes her, but is unable to speak to her, and is only jealous of the man who seems to be her companion. However, when the man comes back to the sea at sunset, he finds her alone on her knees. When he asks her about the man she met during the day, she tells him that he is not her companion and that she only met him at the inn. With this, they continue to talk in an indifferent manner about things that don't mean much, and part, promising to meet again. The next day, as he waits in the pouring rain, she comes running to him, gasping for breath. She tells him that she will return to Tokyo the next day, and he goes into the sea to finish his swimming, and he goes swimming with her. She compliments him on his swimming, and he continues swimming forever and ever ( ep. 4 ). Other DATA/Commentary by Shigesato Itoi
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