[DeepL Translation - needs review] Essays by Nakaya Nakahara, a poet active from the Taisho era to the early Showa era. Five years have passed since his live-in partner Yasuko Hasegawa ran to Hideo Kobayashi, and although there are times when he wants a wife, he finds it hard to abandon his easygoing nature. This is the basic premise of Nakaya's stream of consciousness. In fact, Nakaya, who was fond of taking walks, weaves together in his own words what he sees and hears. He did not dream up...
Kind of feels on the line of 'short story' and essay, it doesn't have a plot though, so if you're looking for that look elsewhere.
I wasn't really into this. The author came off as very pretentious to me. Name dropping western philosophers and film stars and books.
Difficulty wise this was written somewhere between 1907 and 1937 (author died young) so expect old kanji and old grammar forms.