[DeepL Translation - needs review] Essays by Okamoto Kido, playwright and novelist from the Meiji period to the early Showa period. Included in "Omoidegusa" [Sagami Shobo, 1937]. When asked by a magazine about his "New Year's memories," Kido recalls a dark memory. It was the first New Year's Day after the start of the Sino-Japanese War. The town was lively, but Kido's uncle died on December 31, so he could not celebrate and the people around him were unable to cope with the event.
(Translator: DeepL)
Written in the 1930s, memories from around the first Sino-Japanese war time.
Older kanji and some old fashioned terms, but overall not that hard to read from a grammar perspective.