June 16、1909

June 16

Before sunrise, he, Kyosuke and a friend went to the Ueno Station for meeting his mother, wife, child and a friend coming to Tokyo from his hometown by train.
They went to his new place by a vehicle drawn by a man.

June 15、1909

June 15

He left the geshukuya. He put his belongings to his new place. He asked Kyosuke to let him stay in Kyosuke’s room this night.

June 2 ～14,1909

June 2 ～14

His hair and beard had become very long. A maid said he looked like a tuberculosis patient.
By Kyosuke’s negotiation with the geshukuya, he would pay 10 yen every month for the unpaid rent 119 yen.

June 1,1909

June 1

In the afternoon, he asked a friend to go to the newspaper company with his letter and get his salary, 25 yen, in advance.
He went to Asakusa with friends. They watched a movie and ate Western foods.
He bought 5 or 6 magazines.

May 17,1909

May 17

He got 0.15 yen by selling a book of his own poems and a few others.
The used bookstore keeper said his poems’ book was 0.05 yen.

May 14,1909

May 14

He coughed out blood twice.
A maid said it’s because of flush or something.

May 8－13,1909

May 8－13

He sold the book a friend wrote and gave him.
He made a few slight scratches on his left breast by the razor he had borrowed from Kyosuke.
Kyosuke was surprised and let him go out together to a Japanese fry restaurant. They drank and laughed.

May 7,1909

May 7

He had asked a maid to make him awake about 7:00.
He changed his books into money, 80 yen and bought an oil lamp, a set of Japanese chess and cigarettes.

May 3,1909

May 3

This day, a maid, Otsune brought no kindling charcoal.
Several times, another maid, Sumi-chan, came and said to him something innocent.

May 2,1909

May 2

A maid came. The landlord had told her to ask him about the payment of the rent. He was rubbing his eyes and gave her only 20 yen from his purse. He said to her he would pay the remainder until the 10th. She told him to say that to the landlord directly.
About 9:00, a younger maid came to say someone came to see him.

May 1,1909

May 1

He came back at 12:00.
There was no fire in the brazier. The bedding was not prepared. He slept there.

April 30,1909

April 30

Even if he went to work this day, he could not get money for cigarette because it was the next day he would be able to have his salary in advance.
However, if he was staying in the gesahukuya, he would be asked to pay the rent.
He decided not to go to work again.
These days, Sumi-chan, a short girl began to work as a maid. He heard she was 17 years old but she looked only 14 or so.
In the evening, he was asked to pay the rent. He asked to wait until the next evening.

April 29,1909

April 29

He decided not to go to work.
Past 12:00, as he had still be in his room, Kyosuke came and asked him the reason.

April 27,1909

April 27

He awoke being surprised at something.
There beside his pillow, a maid, Okiyo, was standing. He still wanted to keep sleeping but got up.
About 9:30, he was asked to go down to the place of the telephone. It was from Kyosuke saying how about joining Kyosuke and some friends in a restaurant.
He went there by streetcar. 40 minutes later, he met 4 men and a young geisha hostess. He and Kyosuke came back by streetcar.

April 26,1909

April 26

When he woke, the fire in the brazier had gone out.
He went to the public bath.
After pouring a basin of water over himself, he stood on the scales. It showed 45 Kg.
He lit a cigarette and went out of the public bath.
He bought manuscript papers.

April 24,1909

April 24

It’s fine. North winds. 62.3 Fahrenheit.
He came back a little later than usual.
On the manuscripts on his desk, he found something like a letter. He turned on the light bulb. It’s from a friend.

April 23,1909

April 23

He got up about 6:30.
He went to wash his face. He saw a beautiful lady of the room No.19 going back to her room after washing her face. She seemed to be the lady who had bowed to Kyosuke in the lavatory.
He washed his face using the metal basin she had used.

April 22,1909

April 22

He got up about 6:00.
In the evening, he and Kyosuke were talking, making short poems, reading them and laughing in loud voices in Kyosuke’s room.

April 21,1909

April 21

From this day, Okiyo had been in charge of the third floor.

He got up early.

At last, the season of cherry leaves had come.

He opened the window.

The color of young leaves came into his eyes.

The day before, in streetcars, he saw 2 people with summer huts.

At 9:00, he went to the public bath that he had gone to when he had been living in another geshukuya before.
There was no change.

A large full-length mirror, pleasant showers and the man working for washing visitors’ bodies.
On the sheet of glass spread in a window, the silhouette of green leaves was trembling in the morning clear sunshine.

He thought even if the landlord made him get out of the geshukuya, he would be able to move to any place as there were a lot of geshukuya and hotels in Tokyo.

A telephone call for asking him to finish writing the manuscript soon.

April 20,1909

April 20

About 7:00, he heard Otsune and someone talking in the corridor.

He had never heard that voice.

He thought it was a new maid’s.

While he had been still dozing, someone came in.

He opened his eyes slightly.

A round-faced woman who seemed to be 17 years old put kindling charcoal in the brazier.

He woke again without opening his eyes.

Otsune opened violently the paper covered wooden structured sliding door.

She came in and was going out with kindling charcoal.

He opened his eyes fully. She said she would bring it later for him.

He blamed her abuse with voice.

She changed her face.

In the morning, he went to a pawnshop to change his shawl into 0.6 yen.

He had a crew cut in a barbershop and bought washcloth and soap.

When he was going to enter the public bath opposite the barbershop, the keeper’s charming wife let him know they would not be ready until 11:00 because it’s inspection day.

When he’s reading a novel in the bedding, Kyosuke came and asked him if he had hot water.