At Igoi, behind the quarter of soft pleasures.
the morning-after goldfish floats up dead
kinuginu no kingyo ga shinde uite iru
1939 · Last long journey
Sōmokutō · Heart for the Road (Tabigokoro)
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Kinuginu names the morning when a man and woman who have spent the night together must part. In a house behind the pleasure quarter, morning finds the goldfish floating dead in its bowl. Last night's gaiety and the bleak light of morning — the dead goldfish is strangely vivid.