The Secret of Butterflies: Bilingual Japanese and English

by Naomi Otsubo

Overview

Bilingual Japanese and English Text, Facing-Page Edition. This autobiographical work chronicles Naomi's struggles to understand the cruelty of the world from her experience of raising swallowtail butterflies in her garden balcony. This experience leads her to unravel a family secret of her then 14-year-old father's history of the bombing of Nagasaki. This short story of butterflies, dreams, gods, and survival is woven into a beautiful message of hope.

見開きの日英対訳版。アゲハの幼虫をバルコニーで育て始めたら、なぜかそれが、父親の長崎原爆投下時の秘密へとつながっていき......。この世の惨さとの向き合い方を模索し、平和を内省した一女性の短編ノンフィクション。蝶、夢、神、サバイバル、憲法第９条が織りなす希望のメッセージ。

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781935461128
Publisher:	Hakusan Creation
Publication date:	09/05/2000
Pages:	104
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.25(d)
Language:	Japanese

About the Author

After working in Tokyo as a business and publication translator and a full-time nature poet for a satellite broadcasting station, Naomi moved to the United States with her husband William Ash in 2006. She pursued a self-sufficient life in Maine for ten years, exploring the natural world and writing poetry. During this time, she started a small publisher Hakusan Creation. She has published two other books of her work: "乙姫から浦島太郎に告ぐ" in 2014, an autobiographical poetry book about her psychological journey from a single woman in Tokyo to her marriage, and "空海の人びと" in 2016, a diary of her three experiences of completing Japan's longest walking pilgrimage on the island of Shikoku. Currently, she lives in Washington, DC.