"Tsugaru" Author: [Japanese] Dazai Osamu Translator: Wu Jilun Publisher: Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House

●○Dazai Osamu’s “Trilogy of Life”

An autobiographical, heartwarming homecoming story.

Let you get to know Dazai Osamu again

●○Newly introduced,

Hardcover Collector's Edition,

Exclusive color art brush edge

●○ Dazai Osamu rarely has autobiographical works.

Describe the people and things of my hometown with tenderness.

A must-read for fans of Dazai Osamu

"Readers, please move forward with courage and never despair!" - Dazai Osamu

~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The Tsugaru region is located at the northern tip of Japan's Honshu Island. Dazai Osamu spent the first twenty years of his life here, and the people and scenery here became the prototypes for many of Dazai's later works.

In 1944, after four failed suicide attempts, Dazai Osamu returned to his long-lost hometown, swept away the gloom and sorrow of the past, admired the mountains and rivers, visited old friends, and embarked on a self-healing tour.

During this trip, Dazai Osamu was commissioned to write a local diary for his hometown of Tsugaru. However, he not only used a humorous and self-deprecating tone to narrate his experiences of climbing mountains, eating crabs, drinking and chatting with friends, but also used a rare gentle touch to describe for readers this only bright place in his life, making the book achieve an effect comparable to that of a novel.

"It is precisely because I am a pure-blooded Tsugaru that I can speak ill of Tsugaru so unscrupulously. However, if people from other places hear me saying these bad things, believe them completely and look down on Tsugaru, I think I will still feel unhappy. After all, I love Tsugaru deeply."

About the Author:

Dazai Osamu (1909-1948), whose real name was Tsushima Shuji, was born in a well-known gentry family in Kaneki-cho, Kitatsugaru District, Aomori Prefecture. Although his father was a member of the House of Peers, Dazai Osamu never enjoyed the benefits of wealth or power. He was determined to write literature all his life, participated in left-wing movements, drank alcohol, committed suicide for love, and spent his whole life in a contradiction between hope and regret. In his short 39 years of life, he created more than 50 works, including "No Longer Human" and "The Setting Sun". He attempted suicide five times, the last time in 1948, when he and a female reader who admired him committed suicide by jumping into the river at Tamagawa in Mitaka, Tokyo, ending his bitter journey in life.

About the Translator:

Wu Jilun: He used to be an editor at a publishing house and is now a full-time translator. He has translated books such as "Homeless Middle School Students", "Father's Hat", "Luxury Poverty", "Tokyo Downtown Antique Bookstores" series and "Tsugaru".