Here is the cat book that I read today,
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A collection of short stories about cats written by various authors.
He is Shinichi Hoshi's apprentice.
It is divided into three parts, each of which contains 10 works.
At the end of the first and second parts, there is another comic work, so a total of 32 works.
The included works are as follows
Part 1 Smile Cats
Charles Baudelaire “Clock”
Takashi Ishikawa “Cat's moon watching”
Saki "Tobermory"
Ryuichiro Utsumi "kitten"
Fredric Brown "cat thief"
Sakyo Komatsu "Poisoning"
Richard Martin Stern “A Gift for Minna”
Chiaki Kawamata “Cat and Prince”
Henry Jones "cat"
Joji Tsubota "Cats and rats"
Comics From Kenji Morita "Kenji Morita's Hitomakoma Land"
Part 2 Mystery Cats
John D. McDonald "A black cat was on the snow"
Kyoko Kishida "A Story Made in Front of the Fireplace"
Charles Perrault “Cat teacher or cat wearing boots”
Yae Saku “Fukukoji cat”
English folktale "King of cats"
Tomo Okage “Cat with prosthesis”
Arthur C. Clark "Ghost Space Suit"
Shinichi Hoshi "cat"
Peter Lovesay "Easter Bonnet Case"
Toru Fukada "Cat's Notebook"
Comic “Selfish Monet” from Kaho Fukaya “Nighttime Cat”
Part 3 Great Cats
HP Lovecraft `` Cat of Ursal ''
Kenji Miyazawa `` restaurant with many orders ''
From Franz Kafka's" A Record of a Battle"
Yu Esaka "cat or next"
Theodore Sturgeon "Music"
Yasutaka Tsutsui "Good Cat Medal"
Henry Thresser, "The Second Pledge"
Masahiko Inoue "Black Cat Kinema"
Ernest Hemingway "Cats in the Rain"
Haruo Umezaki "Cat Story"
It is quite famous.
Sad that there are many authors who know the name but have never read it. .
Some were short, ending in 2p, and some were worth reading.
Short shorts often have a scary end, probably because they need a punch at the end, and they have a lot of science fiction.
For mystery novel lovers, there were many interesting works in Mystery Cats in Part 2.
Among them, the story I thought was the best,
"The story that was made in front of the fireplace"
The author is Kyoko Kishida!
That actress?
When I looked up, he told me to write a fairy tale, and I didn't know.
Speaking of Kyoko Kishida I remember,
There was a series called "Gokenin Zankurou" in an old Fuji TV historical drama,
It was the main character of the main character Zankuro who played Ken Watanabe.
It was dignified because it was the mother of the Matsudaira family, but it was a cute and nice character somewhere.
She was wielding a naginata.
And that, "The story that was made in front of the fireplace"
A woman spends summer at her villa in Karuizawa since her father's day.
Mrs. N, a friend of her father, lived there and interacted every year.
Time passed, and the woman's father died, and she began to go to Karuizawa with her children, but she continued to interact with her wife.
One year, a woman tells her wife about a kitten and returns to her house a few days later.
At the end of August, Mrs. says that the missing master was cold in front of the fireplace.
It was my first time talking about my husband.
"What was your master?"
When I ask to curb my curiosity,
"My husband was a cat," replied Mrs.
A mysterious story is told quietly in front of the fireplace of a cool villa in Karuizawa.
I also wanted to read other stories of Kyoko Kishida.
It seems that this book was naturally associated with the “The Door into Summer”.
That's a good story.
original Japanese version → 猫本「猫の扉 猫ショートショート傑作選」江坂遊・選 読了 2020年2月17日
