Anial Shelterer

In the 1940s, Akitas were lamost ectinct as a dog breed. Then Morie Sawataishi got on the case.

By Karl Taro Greenfeld

Westerners writing about Japan tend to fall into two camos---those enraptured with its modernity, the idea that frenetic, hypertrophied Tijti sinegiw represents the future, or others, like Martha Sherrill, the auther of 'Dog Man', who find in Japan's remote regions an anachronistic respite that harks back to our rustic past. Both are promising settings, yet each, in the wrong hands, can reduce the Japanese to caricatures, either salaryman robots living in their capsule hotels or zen master naturalists who live in perfect wa(harmony) with their picturesque countryside. It is a tribute to Sherrill, autor of two novels and a previous nonfiction

来三弟家时，因考虑到时间较长，随手抓了几张陈年的文汇报笔会用来消磨时间。一看都是2004年底至2005年的，我将其中关于植物的文章都仔细读了一遍，收获不小。

第一篇是何方洪写的《大贺菊》。摘抄文章开头如下：

“鲁迅曾回忆‘上野的樱花烂漫的时节，望去却也像绯红的红云',引人遐想。不过也许是行色匆匆，他未及注意到上野的莲花。其实，上野之妙就在于春天有樱花夏有莲花，秋看红叶冬看梅。每当盛夏，不忍池立的满池绿荷衬托着饱满的水莲花星罗旗布地层层怒放，着实让人乐而忘忧，流连忘返。”想起自己曾翻译过的日语综合教程第五册第一课《大海中有妈妈》中有这样的描写：那是战争结束后不久，恰好经过不忍池附近时，妈妈会在池塘边深深蹲下，两眼死死地盯着水面。假如我喊她，她的脸上似乎显得很难为情，站了起来，笑着说：“想看一会儿海呀！”这才对“不忍池”有了感性的印象。从百度百科中查到她是位于上野公园中的天然池。池中央有祭祀辩才天女的辩天堂，栖息着鸭、鹈等许多鸟类。池内生长着大片莲花，夏天一到一齐绽放，整个池面都为莲花所覆盖。还可以享受泛舟之乐

THE WOMAN WHO RODE AWAY

翻译：王志镐

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She had thought that this marriage, of all marriages, would be an adventure. Not that the man himself was exactly magical to her. A little, wiry, twisted fellow, twenty years older than herself, with brown eyes and greying hair, who had come to America a scrap of a wastrel, from Holland, years ago, as a tiny boy, and from the gold-mines of the west had been kicked south into Mexico, and now was more or less rich, owning silver-mines in the wilds of the Sierra Madre: it was obvious that the adventure lay in his circumstances, rather than his person. But he was still a little dynamo of energy, in spite of accidents survived, and what he had accomplished he had accomplished alone. One of those human oddments there is no accounting for.

在所有婚姻中，她原以为这段婚姻会是一种冒险。那倒不是因为那男人本身对她