Sekinan Table: I need not more wander the bookshop streets From the story PRINT 2012-2019

Thursday, 9 May 2019

I need not more wander the bookshop streets From the story PRINT 2012-2019

I need not more wander the bookshop streets

From Print 2012, Chapter 10

I need not more wander the bookshop streets. The object exists in my mind. I would better watch the canal. Wandering is over now. Perhaps I would not become meister forever. In my narrow working place, I 'd better do my work till sunset. So out of the window by the working place, the saint passes by. I ever read the Russian folk tale like that.

The Autumn evening is fast. The headlight of streetcar is dazzling. In the yellow-lighten window the passengers are picked out by the light. The car disappeared to the bookshop streets. The station shop is also lighted up by the busy gate orange lights.

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[Note 1 October 2014]

"I need not more wander the book shop streets."

From Tale, Print, 2012
This tale was written by TANAKA Akio, pen-named LI Koh in autumn 2012 for remembering the poor but brilliant youth time of myself. This is one of my favourite phrases in this tale.

The bookshop streets described in the tale is Kanda, Tokyo, which is located in the central Tokyo, where I frequently walked seeking the old Chinese classic books for the study from Oriental way of linguistics. In late 1960s, the streetcars were surely running in the old fashioned streets of Kanda, now perfectly changed to the subway streets.

[Note 9 May 2019]

The story Print 2012 was changed the title TO WINTER in 2015.
Now I scarcely go to Kanda for my old age physical condition, where I ever had looked for the old books, especially Chinese Qing dynasty linguistic classics. WANG Guowei, WANG Yinzhi. WANG Niansun and DUAN Yucai's masterpiece "Suowenjiezi". All are really dear now.

Story's new version text can be read at the below.

https://sekinancomment.weebly.com/to-winter.html

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9 May 2019

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