No Longer Human Osamu Dazai


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can judge, figures in these notebooks as the madam of a bar in
Kyobashi. She is a slightly-built, rather sickly-looking woman, with
narrow, tilted eyes and a prominent nose. Something hard about her
gives you the impression less of a beautiful woman than of a handsome
young man. The events described in the notebooks seem to relate
mainly to the Tokyo of 1930 or so, but it was not until about 1935, when
the Japanese military clique was first beginning to rampage in the
open, that friends took me to the bar. I drank highballs there two or
three times.
I
was never able therefore to have the pleasure of meeting
the man who wrote the notebooks.
However, this February I visited a friend who was evacuated during
the war to Funahashi in Chiba Prefecture, He is an acquaintance from
university days, and now teaches at a woman's college. My purpose in
visiting him was to ask his help in arranging the marriage of one of my
relatives, but I thought while I was at it, I might buy some fresh sea
food to take home to the family. I set off for Funahashi with a rucksack
on my back.
Funahashi is a fairly large town facing a muddy bay. My friend had
not lived there long, and even though I asked for his house by the street
and number, nobody seemed able to tell me the way. It was cold, and


the rucksack hurt my shoulders. Attracted by the sound of a record of
violin music being played inside a coffee shop, I pushed open the door.
I vaguely remembered having seen the madam. I asked her about
herself, and
discovered
she was in fact the madam of the bar in
Kyobashi I had visited ten years before. When this was established, she

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