The Flowers of Buffoonery (道化の華, Dōke no Hana) is a 1935 Japanese novella by Osamu Dazai. Initially titled The Sea (海, Umi) in an early draft Dazai shared with friends,[1] the work was first published[2] in the short-lived coterie journal Nihon romanha [ja] and has been described as a "major contribution" to the magazine.[3] In 1936, the novella was included in Dazai's first book-length fiction collection The Final Years.[4] The story shares a protagonist with Dazai's novel No Longer Human (1948),[5][6] which it preceded by thirteen years.
^Dazai, Osamu (1 October 1935). "Kawabata Yasunari he" 川端康成へ [[Letter] to Kawabata Yasunari]. Aozora Bunko. Retrieved 21 June 2023. Umi to iu dai deatta. Yūjin no Kon Kan'ichi, Ima Uhei ni yonde moratta 「海」という題であった。友人の今官一、伊馬鵜平に読んでもらった [Back then, it had the title The Sea. My friends Kon Kani’ichi and Ima Uhei gave it a read]
^Yamagiwa, Joseph K. (1959). "Japanese literature of the Shōwa period : a guide to Japanese reference and research materials" (PDF). Center for Japanese Studies Publications. University of Michigan Press. p. 72. Archived (PDF) from the original on 8 August 2022. Retrieved 8 August 2022.
^Dazai, Osamu (25 June 1936). 晩年 [The Final Years] (in Japanese). Sunagoya shobō.
^Peacock, Scott, ed. (1998). "DAZAI OSAMU". Contemporary Authors. 164. Gale Research: 104–107. In his next major work, Doke no hana, Dazai began the story with an account of his first double suicide attempt. The narrator, Yozo, is the namesake of the narrator in No Longer Human.
^"The Flowers of Buffoonery". Publishers Weekly. 21 November 2022. Archived from the original on 26 January 2023. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
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