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.