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The most interesting scene occurred when the narrator sees her young child-like body in a public bath. He meets a young female dancer and experiences vague erotic feelings toward her. It’s about a twenty-year-old high school student from Tokyo who takes a trip to the Izu Peninsula. The short story “The Dancing Girl of Izu” was first published in 1926. I hope that this very recent publication date would imply the Mandarin Chinese translation was updated. The hardcover copy I was reading was published last month in January 2023. Yesterday evening (Tuesday, February 14), about an hour before I fell asleep, I read the short story “伊豆的舞孃” in Mandarin Chinese translation, The Dancing Girl of Izu 伊豆の踊子, Izu no odoriko いずのおどりこ, from the Japanese novelist and Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata 川端 康成/かわばた やすなり. Some notes on the books I read during the first two weeks of February 2023.
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