Table of Contents.
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(from print version of Tei, a Memoir of the End of War and Beginning of Peace)
The Story of Her Story II
Historical Background VI
Translation Notes X
Map XVI
PART I – THE HILL OF TEARS
Four Kilometers to the Train Station 3
The Separation 9
The Open Freight Car 15
The Day the War Ended 22
Meeting My Husband Again 28
Shall We Go South? 31
A New Worry 36
Corn Husks 40
Where is My Husband Going? 44
The Hill of Tears 50
Making Ourselves Invisible 55
Diamond Dust 58
The Child Who Doesn’t Cry 62
Shooting Stars Are Alive 65
I Love You Right Now 69
A Sundial of Ice 73
The Sound of Breaking Ice 75
Smoke from the Ondoru 79
Cause of Death 83
PART II – THE TOWN WITH A CHURCH
Below the Hill95
The Men from the Graveyard 100
A Potato with Teeth Marks 108
A Marriage Proposal 112
The White Cross 116
The Element of Love 126
Fighting the Spring Wind 132
Teacher of Soap Sales 136
The Couple Who Lived on Bickering 140
I’m Just a Beggar 147
Trembling Hands and Lips 153
A Mad Woman 156
The Molested Doll 161
Black Gloves for Gennadi 167
Food Shop Assistant 170
Two Lives Versus One Life 174
The Hikiage Plan 177
How I Made Three Hundred Yen 182
Our Dan Divides 186
PART III – THE VOICE OF BEELZEBUB
The Content of the Letters 195
Struggle in the Red Mud 199
Before Freezing to Death 206
The Bald Head of Kappa Man 211
Two Thousand Yen Promissory Note 215
We Reach Shihenri 221
Rest in the Grass 224
The Agony of Crossing the River 229
A Dead Old Woman 234
Through the 38th Parallel 239
Rescued by Americans 246
Pebbles of Bitterness 248
The Lawyer who Pretended to be Mad 252
We Reach Giseifu 255
A Can of Corned Beef 258
Social Decency on the Train 261
Hundred Yen Magic Trick 264
At Fusan 267
Fat Fujiwara and Thin Fujiwara 270
Woman with Children 276
Beelzebub’s Invitation 286
The Four Thousand Yen Carrier 290
Landing Day 295
The Second Day after Landing 298
From Hakata to Suwa 303
Finally, My Parents Embrace Me 308
Author’s Notes from 1976 and 1984 313
About the Author 319
Glossary of Names, Places, and Terms 320