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What does 全伽(ぜんが) mean?

For the public benefit I’m going to explain what 全伽(ぜんが) means. You won’t find it in any dictionary, I know, because I looked in a lot of them.
It came up in the text for “The Second Night,” in “Ten Nights and Dreams” by Natsume Soseki. I was only able to find out what […]

“The First Night” from Natsume Soseki’s “Ten Nights and Dreams”

This is a translation of “The First Night” from Natsume Soseki’s 1908 work of short stories 夢十夜, also known as Yume Juuya, Ten Nights’ Dreams, and Ten Nights of Dream. I will refer to my own translation as Ten Nights and Dreams, to make it more original.