By TOMOKO ADACHI/ Staff Writer
August 8, 2022 at 08:00 JST
These facing pages of Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s “Notebook No. 6,” seen here at the Fujisawa city hall in Kanagawa Prefecture on July 19, contain blemishes, including an ink stain likely due to the use of water to douse a fire. Zhang Wei said she used image editing software and other tools to adjust the coloring and decipher the letters. The name of Li Renjie appears on the right page, written in black ink. (Tomoko Adachi)
FUJISAWA, Kanagawa Prefecture--A graduate student painstakingly restored a notebook kept by acclaimed author Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) that offers a keen insight into the writer’s viewpoint on Japan’s bearing on modern China. [Read More]
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