Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Translator’S Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Walls 25
6. Water 26
7. Night 27
8. Early Ripening 28
9. Death 29
10. Mountains 30
11. The Flowerbed 31
12. The Banana Plant 33
13. Feet 36
14. Compassion 37
15. Stones 38
16. The Sea 39
17. The City Wall 42
18. Autumn Flowers 43
19. Dawn 45
20. Loneliness 46
21. Narcissus 48
22. History 49
23. For Whom Do We Write? 51
24. The Critic 55
25. Eastern Sentiments 57
26. The Short Story and the Conte 59
27. Titles and Other Matters 63
28. Korea’s Fiction 66
29. The Taste of Fiction 72
30. The Fiction Writer 74
31. Friendship Between Men and Women 75
32. This Thing Called the Popular 79
33. The Taste of The Tale of Ch’unhyang 81
34. Kisaeng and Poetry 82
35. Orchid 88
36. Night Flight 90
37. Books 91
38. Brush and Ink 93
39. Copying 95
40. One Part Words 97
41. Nature and Books 99
42. The Love of a Work 100
43. Other People’s Writing 103
44. After Illness 105
45. The New Bride and an Ink Painting of Bamboo 111
46. Readers’ Letters 113
47. The Year of the Ox 115
48. Trees 118
49. Plum Blossom 122
50. The Classics 124
51. A Poor Drinker 126
52. The Carpenters 128
53. Fishing 132
54. Oriental Painting 135
55. Antiques 138
56. Antiques and Daily Life 141
57. Fiction 145
58. Greetings 148
59. The Old Writings of Two Qing Poets 152
60. Diary from a Seaside Village (Shōwa 11) 156
61. Record of a Journey to Manchuria 165
62. Backmatter 191