Hitomi Yoshio

Hitomi Yoshio is an associate professor of global Japanese literary and cultural studies at Waseda University. Her translations of Mieko Kawakami’s work have appeared in Granta, Freeman’s, Monkey Business, Words without Borders, The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories, and others.

Fiction The Ecstasy issue

Wisteria

By Mieko Kawakami

“Seeing the foreign teacher laugh makes Wisteria laugh, but after a while she becomes aware of emotions she has never known before.”