"Monsieur Kurata" By Toyoko Yamazaki (Shincho Bunko) Price: ¥506 (tax included) #ToyokoYamazaki #Yamazaki_Toyoko #Book #JapaneseLiterature/Novels/Stories ▪︎ On cold, harsh days, I look forward to spending time in a warm space, reading a book. ▪︎ I believe this is a gem of a short story collection, containing four small works by Naoki Prize winner Toyoko Yamazaki. ▪︎ The protagonist is a newspaper correspondent in Paris, who deeply loved French culture and was called "Monsieur Kurata." ▪︎ It's a wonderful work that will move you with the dandyish resilience he showed on the Philippine battlefield, a man whose actions deviated from Japanese common sense and was seen by those around him as an arrogant, sharp man.