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The Artist 83

Seibei is now engrossed in his pictures. He no longer feels any bitterness either towards the teacher, or towards his father who smashed all his precious gourds to pieces.

Yet gradually his father has begun to scold him for painting pictures.

Shiga Naoya (b. 1883)
This story was first published in 1913
Translated by Ivan Morris

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