[DeepL Translation - needs review] A short story representative of Yoshiki Hayama, a leading writer of proletarian literature in Japan. First published in Bungei Sensen [Literary Front] in 1926. One day, Matsudo Yozo, a construction worker at a hydroelectric power plant, finds a wooden box in a cement barrel. Inside the box was a letter containing the heartrending cries of a female worker under harsh working conditions. This masterpiece was highly praised by Koji Uno.
(Translator: DeepL)
I did my best to grade this fairly, but keep in mind that the opening and closing sections of this story are significantly harder than the large middle portion which is a straight forwardly written letter. All the usual caveats of Aozora (old kanji, old grammar, old vocab) probably apply although I was not strictly paying attention for them.
There was at least one word that wasn't in my JP<>JP dictionary and I had to Google it to find out the meaning, but in retrospect it was fairly guessable b