(COURTESY OF OSE COMMUNITY CENTER
The photo is of the Hijikawa river which the Oda river feeds.)
At the mercy of the upstreaming flow, the boat went up
the Awachi river, carried on the high tide, from the mouth
of the river into the depth of the plain.
M/T to Mori no Fushigi no Monogatari (The Story of M/T and Wonder of Forest) by Oe Kenzaburo
(privately translated by Takeda Yasuo)
From the river that flows along the prefectural road all the way to the sea, the dusk sneaked upward overlapping with fog. The woods closed in, both on the roadside and on the other side across the river, and the lingering red sky in the square opening ahead gradually faded into the black of Chinese ink.
How to Kill a Tree by Oe Kenzaburo
(privately translated by Takeda Yasuo)
