Hayashi Fumiko 林芙美子

1930 · Showa Japan

I am a wanderer by destiny. I have no home town.

私は宿命的に放浪者である。私は古里を持たない。

Diary of a Vagabond (Horoki), the opening

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February 1529 · Fergana · Kabul · Agra · Even after he had taken India he could not forget the melons and grapes of home

a melon was brought to me; to cut and eat it affected me strangely; I was all tears!

Letter to his friend Khwaja Kalan in Kabul, in the Baburnama · in place of the original: the English translation by Annette Beveridge (1922)