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Languages Study | Languages of the East | Japanese V

AUDIO 528
 

芥川 龍之介 - 鼻
Akutagawa Ryunosuke - The Nose
The Nose: Comical Account of Early Plastic Surgery

Zenchi Naigu is a respected monk unlucky enough to have a thick, six-inch sausage of a nose. It is the source of endless embarrassment to him, so when he hears about a new nose-shrinking treatment from China, he leaps at the chance. Sure enough, after a disciple has first boiled, then trampled on his nose, it shrinks to a more normal size. Happiness, however, does not follow as people make fun of Naigu's new nose.

The audio version of the story (read by Seishi Yamane, Pica and Zenji Hashimoto) has been divided into 5 soundfiles

1. Naigu's Big Nose
2. Is it Treatable?
3. The Operation
4. Side-effects...
5. Back to Nature