Unforgettable People - Unforgettable People

Japanese: 忘れえぬ人々 - わすれえぬひとびと

A short story by Kunikida Doppo. Published in Kokumin no Tomo in April 1898 (Meiji 31). The story is told by an unknown writer, Otsu, to an aspiring artist, Akiyama, who happens to be staying at the Kameya Inn in Mizonokuchi (now Kawasaki City). Unlike his parents, siblings, or teachers, Otsu would not be lacking in obligation if he were to forget some people, but strangely, there are some people he cannot forget. These include a fisherman from a lonely island he saw from the deck of a steamship traveling through the Seto Inland Sea, a horseman he saw at the foot of Mount Aso, and a biwa monk he saw at Mitsugahama in Shikoku.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

国木田独歩の短編小説。1898年(明治31)4月，《国民之友》に発表。溝口（みぞのくち）(現，川崎市)の旅館亀屋で，無名の文士大津が，たまたま泊まりあわせた画家の卵秋山に物語る形式となっている。大津には，親兄弟や先生と違って忘れても義理を欠くわけでもないのに，妙に忘れられない何人かの人々がいる。瀬戸内海通いの汽船の甲板から見た寂しい小島の漁夫，阿蘇山のふもとで見た馬子，四国の三津が浜で見た琵琶僧などである。

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