(CHAPEL AT TENKUBO LAKE)
Big round saucer in faded lemon yellow is floating in the air and, on its upper side, five glittering hemispheres are appearing. The lower part is a huge, coal-black vertical column, where three grittering rectangular windows are also open. It looked like an UFO that flew into the vast darkness and halted there suddenly.
from Somersault by Oe Kenzaburo
(privately translated by Takeda Yasuo
(PHOTO ABOVE: COURTESY OF MR.&MS. MORINAGA AT KOKURIKO)
