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Grandpa's Old Lamp: Translation by Robin Schulz Kindle Edition

by Nankichi Niimi (Author), Robin Schulz (Translator) Format: Kindle Edition

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Nankichi Niimi (1913-1943), born in Aichi Prefecture, is known in Japan as an author of children’s stories, his most famous one being Gon-Gitsune (Gon, the Little Fox). He started writing stories in his mid-teens and moved to Tokyo at the age of eighteen, where he became a contributor to a publication of children’s tales under the tutelage of renowned poet Hakushu Kitahara. He continued writing stories for children until his premature death at the age of twenty-nine. This is a story written in the final years of his life.

Set in 1940s Japan, Toichi, a child in a rural village, is playing hide-and-seek with his friends when he finds an old lamp in a storehouse. Scolded by his grandfather for taking things out without permission, he goes out to the streets with his playmates. When he returns home that evening expecting another chiding, he is surprised to find his grandfather in good spirits. The old man reminisces to Toichi the wonderful memories surrounding the lamp from almost fifty years ago, when Japan was still rapidly modernizing.