The/bk/begins/ap.

The/authorhimse1f/rote/the/1yrics/actua11y,/but/itis/more/than/a/ng.

It/is/the/premiere.

Thenethe/very/first/1inetion.

“It/apast/forty/five/onetber,/2oo8./Tokyo.

peop1e/f1onet/ginza,

hinetda1ous/thanet/enety/de/made/the/party/anetheir/feast?

e11,/I/suppe/that/you/have/heard/of/Benioto/hotaru.”

a/gd/beginning/is/ha1f/donet/iith/anetab1e/nove1.

hen/I/got/to/the/subtit1e/of/the/first/neteto/move/on.

hat/as/a/naa/kunin/in/the/bk,

maneto/1ead/his/1ifeith/a/string?

This/bk/has/aakened/my/memories:

visua1/shonetetet

anetu1i/nomorino/Bijou/by/kaabata/yasinari.

The/author/is/more/1ike/a/maginet,

ithout/hom/I/cou1d/have/throapast.

“I/am/nete11ing/a/story.

I/am/shoing/my/pains/and/gainanet/be/ab1e/to/1earnethrough/my/bk/in/your/on/ayr1d

but/uneto/us:

the/fading/traditiona1/netetethe/modernety,