Reciting Osamu Dazai’s "Cherry Leaves and the Whistler"

reciting Japanese novels

Chiaki Tanaka (left) and Mieko Sorayama Source: Koe

Members of the Japanese Book Club Koe recite "葉桜と魔笛 (Cherry Leaves and the Whistler)", a short story by the famous Japanese author, Osamu Dazai.


In Cherry Leaves and the Whistler, a heroin is looking back on one mysterious incident that happened almost 40 years ago.  Who has been sending love letters to her dying sister? The dying sister said she had faked them herself, but is that true?

Chiaki Tanaka, Mieko Sorayama, Kunihiko Hashimoto, Yumiko Hasimoto deliver this beautiful, mysterious piece.

 

 


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