－－Tears Pot

Author: [Japan] Watanabe Junichi
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: This is a short story collection by the renowned contemporary Japanese writer Junichi Watanabe. The collection includes eight of the author's excellent short stories, such as Rosa's Association, The Tear Vessel, The Jade Bug Shrine, The Twilight of Ginza, Unrequited Love, Making Up for the Dead, Shadows Under the Microscope, and Grapes. The master of aestheticism, Junichi Watanabe, tells you one touching story after another. A woman, on her deathbed, tells her husband her final request: she wants her ashes to be made into a vase. The man complies. Then, a strand of her tenderness seems to take residence in that vase, lingering endlessly. Everything happens under her watchful gaze—the man's new girlfriend is scared away, another woman who discusses marriage meets with a tragic fate, and with no other choice, the man is forced to return to the side of that vase. Even when Junichi Watanabe tells a story with a slightly eerie touch, his brushwork is tinged with sorrow, and a sigh that makes you unwillingly fall into the sadness.