Summer Funeral: Selected Works of Maikawa Yamakawa

Together with Shinichi Hoshi and Michio Tsuzuki, he is also known as the three founders of Japanese short stories.

The tragic writer who died suddenly at a young age

An eternal treasure left to the world

◎ "Summer Funeral" is still a designated chapter in Japanese Chinese textbooks

◎ First published in Taiwan

The smell of the sea, the aroma of potato leaves, the sound of the wind caressing the waves, the heat of the sun pouring down,

From the anxious and lonely youth, the transparent brushstrokes between love and loss,

The ultimate achievement is mountain and river literature that runs through the postwar wilderness.

He skillfully plays with every turmoil of his senses,

This book collects ten of his masterpieces,

Let you have a glimpse of the turbulent waves under the tranquility.

Writer Sheng Haowei

Literary critic Lan Yuyong

──Appreciation of special articles

The man returns to the town where he lived for a short time as a child, and there is a funeral procession

Bringing his thoughts back to the past years──

A sudden air raid forced young girls to grow up overnight.

All dialogues stop at the moment before the cannonball falls.

On the same midsummer afternoon, will the scars opened again finally be redeemed?

──〈Summer Burial Procession〉

Everything in life is boring,

But he still has to shoulder the task of taking care of his family.

Even though he was confused, he still continued to work tirelessly.

Until that day I met the woman who married my best friend again,

Women continue to challenge his boundaries with reality, and gradually,

For the first time, he picked up hope for tomorrow...

──〈Just like love〉