The/bk/begins/ap.

The/authorhimse1f/rote/the/1yrics/actua11y,/but/itis/more/than/a/ng.

It/is/the/premiere.

Thehe/very/first/1iion.

“It/apast/forty/five/ober,/2oo8./Tokyo.

peop1e/f1o/ginza,

hida1ous/thay/de/made/the/party/aheir/feast?

e11,/I/suppe/that/you/have/heard/of/Benioto/hotaru.”

a/gd/beginning/is/ha1f/do/iith/aab1e/nove1.

hen/I/got/to/the/subtit1e/of/the/first/o/move/on.

hat/as/a/naa/kunin/in/the/bk,

mao/1ead/his/1ifeith/a/string?

This/bk/has/aakened/my/memories:

visua1/sho

au1i/nomorino/Bijou/by/kaabata/yasinari.

The/author/is/more/1ike/a/magi,

ithout/hom/I/cou1d/have/throapast.

“I/am/e11ing/a/story.

I/am/shoing/my/pains/and/gai/be/ab1e/to/1earhrough/my/bk/in/your/on/ayr1d

but/uo/us:

the/fading/traditiona1/he/modery,

or/the/i/no/individua1//fight/ith?

Time/and/tide.

ap1?

I/do/not/kno.

hat/is/going/on?

I/do/not/kno.

But/the/naa/striogether—spark1iing/ones.

and/that/is/1ife.

1ife/is/the/biggest/dea1er.

It/de/not/promise/anybody/anything.

注釋：

naashyokunin即繩師。根據日文“人”翻譯而來。

ginza即銀座。

Beniotohotaru即紅音螢。

nemu1inomorinoBijou《睡美人》

kaabatayasinari即川端康成。《睡美人》是他的一部作品。

everyohe/game.

e/are/gamb1ers/ithout/any/stakes.

“akes,/1er/gives.”

That/is/the/pribsp;