[DeepL Translation - needs review] A small novel by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, a writer of the "New School of Thought" active in the Taisho era (1912-1926). First published in "Liberation" [Daibyakkaku, 1920]. Included in the short story collection "Yorai no hana" [Shinchosha, 1921]. A "female spider" lurks behind a bright red rose, seizes a bee and lurks on it, eventually giving birth to a child and dying. This symbolic small piece depicts the workings of nature from the birth of life to death. T...
If you don't like bugs I recommend avoiding this one. The life of a female spider.
No old kana, fairly restrained vocab, nothing for old grammar that I noticed. For Akutagawa this is fairly approachable, but I didn't like it as much as some of his other short stories.