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164 Satō Haruo

desk with a still unlit cigarette in his mouth, and who slowly turns the pages of one of those large books.

It is a very warm spring afternoon. I am in a thicket of trees that nestles among the hushed hills.

Satō Haruo (b. 1892)
This story was first published in 1916
Translated by George Saitō