Our journey through Blue Literature continues, and this time we have two stories to discuss! “In the Forest, Under Cherries in Full Bloom” and “Kokoro.” These stories were quite different from our first one, “No Longer Human,” but I found them quite fascinating in their own ways. In the Forest, Under Cherries in Full Bloom Got to say, it was really weird watching this story after No Longer Human. That was quite the contrast in style and tone! Under Cherries in Full Bloom is a short story by Ango Sakaguchi, written in 1947. The name Ango may sound familiar, since [...]
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