Postcard addressed to the poet Genzo Sarashina by the famed author Osamu Dazai

田岡典夫宛　太宰治　はがき

田岡典夫宛　太宰治　はがき

川村源七宛　太田文平　はがき

The Blue-stockings 17: (The pit at the Odéon) － The author!... the author!... the author!... － Gentlemen, your impatience will be satisfied... you wish to know who is the author of this play which has just received such a great, and I should say, such justifiable, success... the author... is meeeeee!

川村源七宛　中繁商店　中村繁治　はがき

BOHEMIANS OF PARIS 19: THE CLAQUER: By Jingo; we're going to need to liven it up this evening, a new play in three acts; the comic wants me to burst out laughing, the heroine wants me to cry, the author wants me to stamp up to the old heavy mother, who wants me to applaud her... there's ... work for you

NEWS 179: They wanted to snuff out even the Sun

NEWS 386: Mr. Babinet deciding to go and extinguish the sum himself, in order not to give the lie to his prediction

NEWS 18: All the Parisian women who own dogs are following the example given to them by Madam de Saint Frémont and are coming to withdraw their subscription to the Constitutionnel

Demonstrators opposing a visit to Northern Ireland by Queen Elizabeth. At thistime, the Northern Ireland Assembly had been suspended and the country w

NEWS 37: The closer I get to the sun, the more I shiver... surely that star doesn't warrant the reputation for heat that it's been given... I see that my horse misses the ground!

EVERYTHING YOU COULD WANT 66 : －I say, old chap, all the men who pass by seem to me to be turning round... so is this the politicians' quarter here?..

"Art Photo" was written on the picture of farmer, Jinzo Suzuki to show it was a favorite

NEWS 385: An indispensable procaution which Parisians take when they leave their homes, even in broad daylight, since they have been told by Mr. Babinet that the sun might be extinguished from ome moment to the next

News 40: － It is not true that this tragedy contains beauties of the first order... and yet it was refused by the committee of the Théâtre Français and even by that of the Odéon... there is only one thing left: I am going to leave my manuscript with the caretaker of the Gymnasium, without giving my name!

NEWS 99: IMPRESSIONS OF A JOURNEY BY A GREAT POET: “One of the curiosities of Frankfurt that will soon disappear, I fear, is the butcher's shop. it [sic] is impossible to see a more splendid pile of fresh flesh. The bloody butchers and pink butchers’ wives chat gracefully under garlands of legs of mutton. A red stream, its colour barely altered by two gushing fountains, runs and smokes in the middle of the street!” (The Rhine by Victor Hugo Volume 2 page 357)

PHYSIOGNOMY OF THE ASSEMBLY 9: Below the upper vignette: A tiring discourse for the president; Below the lower vignette: Mischief which willingly afforded room to young Estancelin, at a time when the majestic Barrot was President of the Council of Ministers, the majestic Barrot no longer resembling a sun, but a comet

PHYSIOGNOMY OF THE ASSEMBLY 9: Below the upper vignette: A tiring discourse for the president; Below the lower vignette: Mischief which willingly afforded room to young Estancelin, at a time when the majestic Barrot was President of the Council of Ministers, the majestic Barrot no longer resembling a sun, but a comet

The Representatives Represented / The Legislative Assembly 33: Jules, Marquess de Lasteyrie (pronounced Lasteyrie-eye): Formerly a member of the opposition, now the enemy of lights. Dazzled by the too sudden appearence of the Republic's sun, Jules de Lasteyrie has pledged himself to the eye-shade of le Constitutionnel

NEWS 169: NEXT PROCLAMATION BY THE PREFECT OF POLICE. To avold accidents, carriages and horses will, from henceforth, be unable to drive on macadamized boulevards without a loud bell which will alert pedestrians of their approach

(Left) The little village on the far mountainside was already out of sight, and spring was coming around again. The grape trees were like large ailing snakes creeping under the coping stones of the wall. A brown light moved about in the tepid air. The void created by the selfsame every day is likely to chop down even the young trees that were left behind. In this everyday life, a thicket of trees protrudes like a boulder. (Right) The village I lived in has never been thought of as so small. The sun showed itself. The tall poplar forest looks like a beach being blown about by the wind. I grow dizzy just watching that seamless succession. If I can manage to get drunk on this succession of unchanging days, I can also grow to feel like I have taken down an elephant or snake. He differentiated things in this way, like a fluttering butterfly

Caricaturana 92: Sir, I despise the charlatanism of the poster, I despise the Puffs of the advertisement, I abhor everything which smells of the charalatan, the tumbler, the rope-dancer, and I limit myself to producing with all naivete and foolishness my merchandise. Read my catalogue! Scent of love, esteem and friendship, in phials from the Middle-Ages... Extract of the smile of infancy －Perfume of Adolphe's first steps－ Water of the peoples' alliance, for the handkerchief, with Beranger's song. Perfume of General Foy, a scent to strengthen the brain's fibre and to remind the French of their liberties and rights guaranteed by the constitutional charter. Surrounded by an oration given upon the tomb of the immortal deputy by one of his honourable colleagues. You see, it's impossible to be more simple

JOURNEY TO CHINA 2: THE PASSPORT. The foreigner who visits China is submitted to an indispensable formality; he receives a slip of paper on which is written the age he wants to indicate, the profession he says he pursues and the place where it pleases him to appoint his birth; all that followed by a description of particulars which applies to everybody, after which, against a consideration of two francs, the Chinese government is deemed to lend him succour and assistance for one year

You look like getting chased by a fire. How pale you are...you aren't yourself. What's the matter? "It's not good to chase after what you think to be precious," I answerd muttering