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FACE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE WORLD
and Other Poems
BY HAGIWARA SAKUTARŌ
FACE AT THE BOTTOM
OF THE WORLD
and Other Poems
BY HAGIWARA SAKUTARŌ
translated by Graeme Wilson
paintings by York Wilson
CHARLES E. TUTTLE COMPANY
Rutland • Vermont : Tokyo • Japan
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UNESCO Collection of Representative Works: Japanese Series. This book has been accepted in the Japanese Series of the Translation Collection of the United. Nations educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
Published by the Charles E. Tuttle Company, Inc.
of Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo, Japan
with editorial offices at Osaki Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 141-0032
© 1969 by Charles E. Tuttle Co., Inc.
All rights reserved
Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 75-83075
ISBN: 978-1-4629-1267-4 (ebook)
First printing, 1969
Book design & typography by F. Sakade
PRINTED IN JAPAN
For
MAYUMI
TABLE OF CONTENTS
AI REN
GREEN FLUTE
DUEL
IN THE BAR AT NIGHT
WOMAN
ROTTEN CLAM
TO DREAM OF A BUTTERFLY
PORTRAIT
WINTER
SPRING NIGHT
DAWN
BAMBOOS
PERSON WHO LOVES LOVE
HARMFUL ANIMALS
WHITE MOON
SAD MOONLIT NIGHT
SEASIDE HOTEL
FIELDMOUSE
DEATH OF AN ALCOHOLIC
WITH A GIFT
EGGS
ELEGANT APPETITE
ENCHANTEN GRAVEYARD
TURTLE
FACE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE WORLD
NEW ROAD AT KOIDE
BLUE FLAME
MOONLIGHT AND JELLYFISH
SWIMMER
SEA SHELL
CAFE OF THE DRUNKEN MOON
STILL LIFE
POLISHED METAL HANDS
DWARF LANDSCAPE
LATE AUTUMN
NIGHT TRAIN
DEATH OF A FROG
MURDER CASE
IN THE MOUNTAINS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Acknowledgments are made to the editors of the following publications in which various of these translations have appeared: the Japan Quarterly, the Oriental Economist, the P.E.N. Review of Japan, the East-West Review, the Times Literary Supplement, the Spectator, the Observer, the New Statesman & Nation, the Cornhill Magazine, Encounter, Tablet, English, Tribune, the Poetry Review, the Glasgow Herald, the Scotsman, New Nation, Chirimo, solidaridad, the Diliman Review, Enquiry, Poetry Singapore, the Bangkok Magazine, Poetry Australia, the Poetry Magazine, the Meanjin Quarterly, Twentieth Century, Poetry India, the Weekend Review, Now, Mainstream, Quest, Thought, Edge, Prism International, Delos, New and the Yale Review.
INTRODUCTION
The poetry of Hagiwara Sakutarō is still little known in the
