道化の華

The Flowers of Buffoonery

Author

Osamu Dazai

Language

Japanese

Year

1935

First Pub.

Japan

Genre

Novella / Light Novel

east asiamodern japan

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The Flowers of Buffoonery is a 1935 Japanese novella by Osamu Dazai. Initially titled The Sea in an early draft Dazai shared with friends, the work was first published in the short-lived coterie journal Nihon romanha and has been described as a "major contribution" to the magazine. In 1936, the novella was included in Dazai's first book-length fiction collection The Final Years. The story shares a protagonist with Dazai's novel No Longer Human (1948), which it preceded by thirteen years.