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Akutagawa 2006 (second half) · Candidate
植物診断室
Shokubutsu shindanshitsu
Title translated by AI:“The Plant Diagnosis Room”
Tomoyuki Hoshino · 41 when first published
Novella · 125 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:Hiroki, a solitary bachelor who lives for his walks and attends sessions of a healing practice known as 'plant diagnosis', is asked by a divorced mother to be in her child's life as a grown-up male friend, in no role the family system names.