Seascape with Figures in Gold (1939), Osamu Dazaiĭazai was born Shūji Tsushima ( 津島修治 Tsushima Shūji ?), the eighth surviving child of a wealthy landowner in Kanagi, a remote corner of Japan at the northern tip of Tōhoku in Aomori Prefecture. The cold half pint of milk I drank each morning was the only thing that gave me a certain peculiar sense of the joy in life my mental anguish and exhaustion were such that the oleanders blooming in one corner of the garden appeared to me merely flicking tongues of flame. Though battling an illness that each and every night left my robe literally drenched with sweat, I had no choice but to press ahead with my work. Thanks to the compassion of others, I was able to rent a small house in Funabashi, Chiba, next to the muddy sea, and spent the summer there alone, convalescing. The year before last I was expelled from my family and, reduced to poverty overnight, was left to wander the streets, begging help for various quarters, barely managing to stay alive from one day to the next, and just when I'd begun to think I might be able to support myself with my writing, I came down with a serious illness. 2.3 Selected bibliography of English translations.
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