Contents: The Beefeater / Kanagaki Robun -- The Western peep show / Hattori Bushō -- The Thieves / Kawatake Mokuami -- Modern Poetry in Chinese -- The Essence of the Novel / Tsubouchi Shōyō -- The Drifting Cloud / Futabatei Shimei -- Growing Up / Higuchi Ichiyō -- Old Gen / Kunikida Doppo -- Modern Haiku : I -- Botchan / Natsume Sōseki -- The Broken Commandment / Shimazaki Tōson -- One soldier / Tayama Katai -- The River Sumida / Nagai Kafū -- Modern poetry : I -- Modern Waka -- The Roamji Diary / Ishikawa Takuboku -- The Wild Goose / Mori Ōgai -- A Tale of Three Who Were Blind / Izumi Kyōka -- Sanctuary / Naka Kansuke -- Han's Crime / Shiga Naoya -- At Kinosaki / Shigo Naoya -- The Madman on the Roof / Kikuchi Kan -- The Tiger / Kume Masao -- Kesa and Moritō / Akutagawa Ryūnosuke -- Hell Screen / Akutagawa Ryūnosuke -- The Cannery Boat / Kobayashi Takiji -- Time / Yokomitsu Riichi -- Earth and Soldiers / Hino Ashihei -- The Mole / Kawabata Yasunari -- Modern Poetry : II -- Modern haiku : II -- The Firefly Hunt / Tanizaki Junichirō -- The Mother of Captain Shigemoto / Tanizaki Junichirō -- Villon's Wife / Dazai Osamu -- Tokyo / Hayashi Fumiko -- Omi / Mishima Yukio.