Bungo Stray Authors - Handwriting Part 8

Bungo Stray Authors - Handwriting Part 8

It’s time for some handwritten manuscripts from Nakahara Chuuya!Here is the manuscript and translation for 文也の一生 (Fumiya’s Lifetime):

Spring will come again, people say. Yet I am heartsick. Nothing will happen when spring comes; That child will not come again.

Next is the manuscript for  坊や (Boy): 

(sorry, I couldn’t find a translation)

And finally, here is the manuscript and translation for Chuuya’s poem “Spring”:

Spring makes the earth and the grass sweat afresh.

To dry the sweat, the lark mounts to the sky.

This morning the tiled roof has no complaints.

From the long schoolhouse the chorus ascends to the sky.

Ah, peaceful, peaceful.

It’s come round, this is my spring this year.

The hope which long ago set my heart trembling, today

grown grave and deep blue, out of the sky falls on me.

So I will end up witless, end up stupid.

- Behind the bush, is it a stream, or silver, or ripples?

Behind the bush, is it a stream, or silver, or ripples?

The big cat shakes its head clumsily,

rolling a bell,

trying to roll a bell. 

*Poem translations are from The Poems of Nakahara Chuuya

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