I need not more wander the bookshop streets
I need not more wander the bookshop streets. The object exists in my mind. I would better watch the canal. Wandering is over now. Perhaps I would not become meister forever. In my narrow working place, I 'd better do my work till sunset. So out of the window by the working place, the saint passes by. I ever read the Russian folk tale like that.
The Autumn evening is fast. The headlight of streetcar is dazzling. In the yellow-lighten window the passengers are picked out by the light. The car disappeared to the book streets. The station shop is also lighted up by the yard's busy orange light.
From Print 2012, Chapter 10
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"I need not more wander the book shop streets." From Tale, Print, 2012. This tale was written by TANAKA Akio, pen-named LI Kohr in autumn 2012 for remembering the poor but brilliant youth time of myself. This is one of my favourite phrases in this tale.The book shop streets described in the tale is Kanda, Tokyo, which is located in the central Tokyo, where I frequently walked seeking the old Chinese classic books for the study from Oriental way of linguistics. In late 1960s, the street-cars were surely running in the old fashioned streets of Kanda, now perfectly changed to the subway streets.
[Note 2 / 6 January 2016]
Kanda, Tokyo is probably one of the largest old book shop streets in the world. I love this streets and town since my youth age twenties.
In IKEDA Kiyoshi's famous book, Free and Rule, he wrote that he discovered the very book which was his British friend's favourite signed book, he already dead, at one old book shop in Kanda, over seas and beyond times. With the friend IKEDA spent their dear public school days before the Second World War. The book is at last met with its most desirable person, if the person never resigns himself.
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