Fox Treasure Bag: My Boyhood
by (japan) Shibusawa Tatsuhiko
About This Novel
"Fox Treasure Bag: My Boyhood" is a collection of autobiographical memories of Shibusawa Tatsuhiko. Using his boyhood in the early Showa era as a clue, he recalls food, comics, ballads, baseball, sumo wrestling, Tokyo air raids and other life fragments, linking together the special experiences of an ordinary Japanese family during the war years. The sweet nectar in New Year's cuisine, the nursery rhymes that only he can sing, the summer sceneries of the Koshien baseball game, the nostalgic big iron umbrella, the lunatic asylum adjacent to the junior high school and General Awara... The frail and sickly Tokyo teenager glimpsed the shining golden age through the "diorama". Under the gentle recollection, the cruel reality of war is looming, and the despair and loneliness of that era are outlined like a gray line. This is not "hometown" or "childhood", but the entrance to dreams and death, an echo of the origin of Shibusawa Tatsuhiko's aesthetics. In this collection of essays with "memory" as the core, he rarely removes the mask of "gorgeous", "weird" and "black aesthetics" in his previous works. What he writes is the world in the eyes of a child, gentle, clear, and even a bit "bright", showing the rare sincerity and nostalgia of Shibusawa Tatsuhiko. Hidden in the quiet memories is the loneliness and confusion shared by a generation.
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