[DeepL Translation - needs review] Critique of Kunio Kishida, a leading Japanese playwright and director active from the Taisho to Showa periods. First published in "Hitotsubashi Shinbun" [1937]. I've been thinking about this recently. When will the country of Japan be unified in terms of customs? In this essay, Kishida points out the "friction" caused by the mixing of Japanese and Western cultures, and he hopes to wait for the day when a Western culture that matches the sexual feelings of t...
An interesting essay discussing Western influence on Japanese culture. Honestly I found this funnier than it probably would have been at the time, but that's the benefit of living in the the future I suppose.
Old kana but fairly little old kanji and the grammar felt straight forward enough.