[DeepL Translation - needs review] This is a representative short story by Sakunosuke Oda, a leading writer of the Muyori-ha school of literature from the Taisho era (1912-1926) to the early Showa era (1926-1989). First published in "Fuyuki" [1947]. It is included in the "Complete Works of Sakunosuke Oda, Vol. 5" [Bunsendo Shuppan, 1976]. The daughter of a tatami mat shop owner is a woman of good character, but she has a high spirit and is precocious, and every time she gets into trouble, sh...
I purposefully was looking for a story by this author because I heard he was similar to Dazai and Sakaguchi, but aside from the themes of this piece being likely to irritate social norm holders of the time, the writing didn't strike me as quite on their level. I'll try the author again, but I'm not in a hurry.
Broadly the tale of a girls fall from grace as the result of her beauty and precocious puberty. It's got a dry humor to it, and I found myself liking the girl.
Plenty of the hallmarks of