[DeepL Translation - needs review] A short story by Osamu Dazai, a novelist of the early Showa period who represented the "Muyori-ha" or "New Caricature School" of doomed writers. It first appeared in "Shinpu" [1946]. When "I" made the acquaintance of a penniless grandfather at the post office, "I" recalled the willow poem "Oyashiro ni-ji to mukashi no oyashiro wa aruka" (The two characters for "parent" and the penniless parent are said). The story humorously depicts the exchange between "I"...
