Posts tagged with shigesato itoi
- An assistant mustn’t eat any pastry their employer’s set aside for later.
- An assistant mustn’t turn away clients because their employer finds them beautiful.
- An assistant mustn’t toss their employer’s stale tea away on their own discression.
- An assistant mustn’t use word such as “like” or “um” when speaking to their employer.
- An assistant musn’t wish for a nicer chair or salary than their employer.
- An assistant mustn’t add the term ‘manager’ to their business card.
- this is not the most accurate translation you’ll ever find. my interest in the project is mostly literary, and my japanese might be called “studied but inept,” like a novice monk in 1500’s latin
- i know of the other partial translation online, but i’m not consulting it, for same reasons as above
- respecting authorial intentions, as expressed in the books foreword, i will not be marking who wrote what on this page. that’s only there with the stories themselves
- let me know what you think, imagined reader. contact link’s there in the menu
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- Eisenhower
- Assistant
- Asparagus
- Apartment
- Work
- Allergies
- Encore
- Antithesis
- イ
- Interview
- Indian
- Interior
- ウ
- West Coast
- エ
- Etiquette
- Elite
- Elevator
- オ
- Sardines in Oil
- All Night
- Onion Soup
- カ
- Carpet
- Kama Sutra
- Cutlet
- キ
- Camp Fire
- ク
- Quiz Show
- Cool Mint Gum
- Crab
- Grape Drops
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- Coin
- Coffee
- Coffee Cup
- Coca Cola
- Condor
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- Surfer
- Sudden Death
- Salary Man
- シ
- Season
- Off-Season
- Shaving Cream
- Shigesato Itoi
- City Boy
- Shower
- Jungle Book
- Short Stop
- Jinx
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- Squeeze
- Superman
- Star Wars
- Stereotype
- Straight
- Special Issue
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- Sweater
- Xerox
- ソ
- Soft Serve
- Softball
- タ
- Direct Mail
- Taxi
- Talcum Powder
- チ
- Charlie Manuel
- Chewing Gum I
- Chewing Gum II
- テ
- Disney Land
- Debt
- Death Match
- Tent
- ト
- Donuts I
- Donuts II
- Dog Food
- 二
- Nickname
- ノ
- Knock
- ハ
- Highway
- High Heel
- Haruki Murakami
- Bread
- Handsome
- ヒ
- Beer
- フ
- Philip Marlowe
- Blue Suede Shoes
- Blueberry Ice Cream
- Playboy Party Joke
- へ
- Baseball
- Penguin
- ホ
- Whale
- Hotel
- Pony Tail
- マ
- Margarine
- Masquerade
- Match
- May
- ミ
- Disco Ball
- モ
- Mozart
- Moral
- ラ
- Rack
- Love Letter
- Last Scene
- Lunch
- Runway
- レ
- Raincoat
- ワ
- Wham!
- Bow Wow
Assistant, by Shigesato Itoi
my translation of the second story of 夢で会いましょう [Meet Me in a Dream] by Haruki Murakami and Shigesato Itoi, not guaranteed to be accurate. see the intro post to read more!
Given all this, from now till the end of time, I do not intend t become an assistant.
Meet Me in a Dream translatoion
a few notes on my translations of Meet Me In a Dream:
stories
(with links to translation, if available)