The River Sumida
work by Nagai Kafū
Also known as: “Sumidagawa”
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- In Nagai Kafū
…particularly apparent in Sumidagawa (1909; The River Sumida, 1956), a novelette about the disappearance of the gracious past in the city of Tokyo. For some years after his return, Kafū was a professor at Keiō University in Tokyo and a leader of the literary world. After his resignation in 1916,…
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