Bangiku (short story)

"Bangiku"
Short story by Fumiko Hayashi
TranslatorJohn Bester (1956)
Lane Dunlop (1986)
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese
Publication
Published inBungei Shunjū
Publication typeMagazine
Media typePrint
Publication date1948
Published in English1956, 1986

Bangiku (Japanese: 晩菊, Hepburn: Bangiku), translated into English as A Late Chrysanthemum and Late Chrysanthemum, is a short story by Japanese writer Fumiko Hayashi, first published in 1948.[1][2] It received the Women's Literary Award the same year and was later adapted into a film.[1] The story describes an ageing ex-geisha who makes preparations to meet a former lover while reflecting on her past life.

  1. ^ a b "晩菊 (Bangiku)". Kotobank (in Japanese). Retrieved 26 July 2021.
  2. ^ Ericson, Joan E. (1997). Be a Woman: Hayashi Fumiko and Modern Japanese Women's Literature. Cambridge (MA) and London: University of Hawai'i Press. p. 84. ISBN 978-0-8248-5910-7.