Author: Kenji Miyazawa

“The Restaurant of Many Requests” by Kenji Miyazawa, translated by Allen Zhang Two young men walked along a small path deep in the mountains. Their rifles gleamed bright against their crisply ironed coats as the thick blanket of leaves crunched under their boots. The heavy footfalls of a pair of white hounds followed behind. As…

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“The Good-Natured Volcanic Rock” by Kenji Miyazawa, translated by Zhujun Wu At the foothill of an extinct volcano, under an oak tree, there was a large black rock. His name was Bego.* He had been sitting there for a long time. The other rocks, who were small and sharp-edged, had given Bego his name. Bego…

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