Only a single incandescent bulb lit the room, and with the curtain wide open, she sprawled out and watched the blueness in the indigo sky slip away. There was that which was inside the room and that which...
Yui TANIZAKI (fiction writer, translator; Japan) was born in 1978 in Fukui, where she lived until she was 18 years old, at which time she relocated to Kyoto. In 2007, Yui wrote the novel Maiochiru Mura which garnered her the Bungagukai Prize for New Writers. Her stories and essays are featured in numerous literary magazines. Maiochiru Mura, like much of Yui’s work, is deeply influenced by place and the ways it influences one’s understanding of self.
Only a single incandescent bulb lit the room, and with the curtain wide open, she sprawled out and watched the blueness in the indigo sky slip away. There was that which was inside the room and that which... media_text
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A Sense of Place When I was in high school, I didn’t have friends—well, I had some, but not a lot. From the school to my home, a river ran parallel with the road, with a path on... media_text
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