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Akutagawa 2000 (first half) · Winner
花腐し
Hanakutashi
Title translated by AI:“Flower-Rotting Rain”
Hisaki Matsuura · 46 when first published
Novella · 150 pages
AI-generated summary:Betrayed by a business partner and left with his studio's debts, a middle-aged designer agrees to evict a stubborn tenant from a decrepit Tokyo apartment, and in the endless rain his mind drifts back to a lover who has died.