Fuyuhiko Takata

ある夜ふけ、思春期の少年が眠っていると、窓から2羽の鳥が飛び込んでくる。少年の耳元にとまったこの魔法の生き物は、幻想的で奇妙なおとぎ話を語り始める。まるで彼の夢の中に直接ささやきかけるように。アラビアの王女が宮殿を抜け出して平民の男たちと燃えるような夜を過ごすというエロティックな寓話を語りながら、鳥たちは青年を自らの欲望へと誘う。性別や主人公が曖昧に入れ替わりながら繰り広げられる彼らの精巧な語りは、徐々に激しさを増していくが、物語の最高潮を迎える直前で突然中断されてしまう。


One night, two enchanted birds fly in through the window of a sleeping adolescent boy. Perching upon his ear, these magical creatures recount fantastic and peculiar folk tales into the teenager’s mind, as if speaking directly into his dreams. Relating an erotic fable of an Arabian princess who escapes her palace to spend lurid evenings with common men, the birds entice the young man toward his own desire. Their elaborate narrative, which unfolds with ambiguous shifts in genders and protagonists, escalates in intensity until it is suddenly interrupted, just before it reaches the best part of the story.

Texts by Greg Dvorak (Professor, Waseda University)