[DeepL Translation - needs review] This is a short story by Osamu Dazai, a novelist of the early Showa period who represented the "Muyori-ha" or "New Drama School" of doomed writers. First published in "Sanetomo, Minister of the Right" [Kinjo Shuppansha, 1943], the story is told by "I," a former close associate of Sanetomo who served him from the age of 12 and was ordained after his death, as he recalls his character and the latter half of his life from 20 years after his death. The story is...
