: A fifteen-year-old teenager leaves home, hoping to avoid his father's prophecy, but the intervention of mystical forces and the mistakes of others determine the path of the boy. The novel is an alternation of two storylines in chapters: odd - the story of Kafka Tamura, told in the first person, even ...

Once upon a time there lived a middle adviser named Minamoto-no Tadayori, and he had many beautiful daughters whom he loved and cherished in luxurious chambers. And he had another daughter, unloved, he had visited her mother once, but she had died a long time ago. And his main wife had a cruel heart, she disliked ...

Not these days, but long ago, old man Taketori lived, wandered the mountains and valleys, chopped bamboo and made baskets and cages from them. And they called him Taketori - the one who cuts bamboo. Once an old man Taketori went into the very depths of a bamboo thicket and sees: radiance is pouring from one tree, looking - what a wonder!...

: A detective of a private detective agency is looking for the applicant’s missing husband and, at the same time entangled in the vicissitudes of the case, finds meaning in a completely different way of his own life. A private search agency filed a search for the 34-year-old Hiroshi Nemuro, the head of the department of a trading company ...

In the "villages of love", this paradise of love for simpletons, the sea of ​​passion cannot be scooped up. In the fun quarter, Sonezaki is always full of cheerful guests, they bawl songs, make faces, imitate their favorite actors, dance and mock. From all the houses of fun you can hear rollicking music, funny busting of the Shamisen....

The adopted daughter of a wholesaler of ready-made clothes, Takichiro Sada, notes that on an old maple growing near their house, two bushes of violets have blossomed - they grow in two small hollows on the trunk of an old maple and blossom every spring, as Tieko remembers himself. They look like miserable girls ...

Thirties japan. Someone Shamamura, a middle-aged man, takes a train to a snowy country - the so-called harsh mountainous region in the north of Honshu (the main island of Japan), which is famous for heavy snowfalls. For the first time he came there to admire the northern nature a year ago in early spring, and now ...

An unremarkable employee in the Beijing branch of Mitsubishi, Osino Handzaburo, suddenly died before he was thirty years old. According to the conclusion of Professor Yamai, director of Tongren Hospital, Hanzaburo died from a stroke. But Hanzaburo himself did not think it was a blow. He did not even think that he was dead. Simply ...

Several years have passed. There are no friends, women come and go. He remembers his Girlfriend and decides to find her. To do this, the hero again goes to the Dolphin Hotel. But there everything changed, as if by magic. In place of the old hotel stands an ultramodern hotel. When asked what happened to the previous owners, ...

The jets of the outgoing river ... They are continuous; but they are not all the same, the former waters. Foam bubbles floating in the backwaters ... they will either disappear, or will be contacted again, but it will not be possible for them to stay for a long time. People that are born, that die ... where do they come from and where do they go? Both the owner and his home, both of them leave, competing ...

I recently visited the Cloud Forest temple, where the ceremony of explaining the sutra of the Flower of the Law took place, and I met two amazing old men there, they were older than ordinary people. One was one hundred and ninety years old, the other one hundred and eighty. The temple was crowded with many people, monks and laity, servants ...

As the foggy haze of the festive New Year's morning dissipated, the court ladies who served in the Tomikoji Palace appeared in the reception hall, competing with each other in the brilliance of their outfits. That morning I was wearing a seven-layer lower robe - the color changed from pale pink to dark red: on top of the dress ...

There were many princes in the world, omnipotent and cruel, but all descended from the descendant of the old family, Prince Kiyomori Tayra, a monk ruler from the Rokuhara estate - there is such a rumor about his deeds, about his rule that truly cannot be described in words. Six generations of Tyra’s house have served as rulers in various ...

A long time ago, among the samurai regent Mototsune Fujiwara, there was a certain unsightly and miserable man who performed some simple duties. Everyone treated him disrespectfully: both colleagues and servants. He was surrounded by general contempt, he lived a truly canine life. His clothes were old, ...

The man-box, sitting in his box, proceeds to notes on the man-box. It describes in detail which drawer is suitable for a human drawer, how to equip it so that it is convenient to be in it in any weather, what things a human drawer needs. The most suitable box is corrugated cardboard....

The short story is different versions of the same event expressed by different people. The lumberjack said during interrogation that he found the corpse of a man in a grove under the mountain, where bamboo grows interspersed with young cryptomeria. The man was lying on his back, on it was a light blue suikan (short ...

Nedokoro Mitsusaburo (Mitsu), waking up before dawn, tries again and again to find a sense of hope, but in vain. He recalls his comrade who stripped naked, painted his head with red paint and hanged himself. A year before his death, he interrupted classes at Columbia University, returned to his homeland. ...

One Japanese industrialist, under the influence of American fashion, decided to start building individual atomic shelters, but they could not establish mass production, and the only shelter built was abandoned. Five years later, the construction company, using the bunker as ...

Song Jin-hua, a fifteen-year-old prostitute, sits at home and gnaws watermelon seeds. From time to time she looks at a small bronze crucifix hanging on the wall of her wretched little room, and hope appears in her eyes. Jin Hua is a Catholic. She became a prostitute to feed herself and the old father....

The narrator sits in the second-class carriage of the Yokosuka-Tokyo train and waits for a signal to depart. At the last second, a country girl of about thirteen to fourteen with a rude, weathered face runs into the carriage. Putting a knot with things on her knees, she squeezes a third-class ticket in her frozen hand. The narrator ...