Red hair tied back with a rubber band
An excerpt from Akira Otani's The Night of Baba Yaga, translated from Japanese by Sam Bett
Christina Yuna Ko, The Promised Place,
2017.
those January stars
Two poems by Nukata no Ōkimi, translated from Japanese by Naoko Fujimoto
Santō Kyōden, from Kengu irigomi sentō shinwa (Wisdom and Folly Mixed in New Tales of the Bathhouse), 1802. Courtesy of the National Diet Library.
Public Baths and Public Cafeterias
An essay by Tatsushi Fujihara, translated from Japanese by Sam Bett