#japanese literature

[bsd-bibliophile]

All my life I’ve never known what scorn or hate or anger or jealousy feel like. I just copy other people and make a show out of hating or despising certain things. In reality, I don’t understand any of it. I have no idea what it feels like to hate someone, to detest someone, to feel jealousy.

Dazai Osamu, A New Hamlet

[metamorphesque]

—Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

[That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.]

[feral-ballad]

Yosano Akiko, tr. by Sam Hamill & Keiko Matsui Gibson, from River of Stars: Selected Poems of Yosano Akiko

[Text ID: “Picking wild roses, / some to weave into my hair / and some for the hand, / I then waited for hours, / I waited for you all day.”]

[lets-get-lit]

I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once.

- Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

[mournfulroses]

Kōtarō Takamura, tr. by Hiroaki Sato, from Chieko & Other Poems; "Two Under the Tree,"

[elysiumaze]

Mieko Kawakami in, Heaven.

[0wikipedia0]

I’m sorry?? What?

Was reading a Wikipedia article on Mori Ōgai and apparently his daughter Mari was the “creator” of the YAOI GENRE?!?! I’m reeling.

Wtf

[ryukatz]

⋆ ♱ PORT MAFIA LITERARY REFERENCES ♱ ⋆

[hiyutekivigil]

haruki murakami, kafka on the shore, p. 11

[miscellaneous-03]

You’ll find your own way to discuss what happened to you. You’ll have to, if you ever want to be close to anyone. But your life—no matter what you think, you have nothing to be ashamed of, and none of it has been your fault. Will you remember that?

- Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

[infinitiumme]

Yukio Mishima with his cats

[bsd-bibliophile]

I suddenly began to wonder if I was happy. But then I have no idea of what happiness means, because it is beyond self-consciousness.

Nakajima Atsushi, Light, Wind, and Dreams

[metamorphesque]

— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

[feral-ballad]

Yosano Akiko, tr. by Sam Hamill & Keiko Matsui Gibson, from River of Stars: Selected Poems of Yosano Akiko

[Text ID: “I want, suddenly, to suck / your feverish lips with mine.”]

[literaturecravings]

— Sputnik Sweetheart, Haruki Murakami

[mournfulroses]

Kōtarō Takamura, tr. by Hiroaki Sato, from Chieko & Other Poems; "To General Kuribayashi,"