Atsushi Nakajima
Japanese short-story writer and essayist of the early Shōwa period, noted for works that draw on Chinese classics—most famously the short story "Sangetsuki" ("The Moon Over the Mountain"). Died in 1942.
Books
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1. The Moon Over The Mountain
A haunting, lyrical retelling of the life of a renowned Tang-dynasty poet whose soaring imagination and thirst for immortality are matched by a self-destructive love of drink; as his refusal to accept ordinary existence deepens, his poetic genius becomes entwined with delusion, leading to a final, symbolic act—reaching for the moon’s reflection and meeting a tragic end—that serves as a meditation on art, hubris, and the gap between human longing and earthly limits.
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