Takekurabe

"Takekurabe"
Short story by Ichiyō Higuchi
TranslatorW.M. Bickerton (1930)
Edward Seidensticker (1956)
Seizo Nobunaga
Robert Lyons Danly (1981)
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese
Publication
Published inBungakkai
Publication typeMagazine
Media typePrint
Publication date1895–96
Published in English1930, 1956, 1981

Takekurabe (たけくらべ, lit. "Comparing heights"), English titles including Growing Up and Child's Play, is a novella by Japanese writer Ichiyō Higuchi, first published in 1895–96.[1] It depicts a group of youths growing up in Shitaya Ryūsenji-chō, Yoshiwara, Meiji era Tokyo's red light district, over a span of four months.[1][2]

  1. ^ a b Danly, Robert Lyons (1992). In the Shade of Spring Leaves: The Life and Writings of Higuchi Ichiyō, A Woman of Letters in Meiji Japan. New York: W.W. Norton & Co. ISBN 978-0-393-30913-3.
  2. ^ "Growing Up - novel by Higuchi Ichiyo". Britannica.com. Retrieved 29 March 2021.