Publisher's Synopsis
If Disqualification in the World is the dark night of Dazai's life, Tsugaru is his rare and pleasant afternoon. Tsugaru is a key work linking Osamu Dazai's mid-to-late career, and it is also his last bright work before his post-war rogue style. Osamu Dazai, who is born with a gloomy personality, tries to show in this book the cheerfulness of hard work and the ardent feelings of love and hatred for his hometown with his always humorous and self-deprecating words. Literary circles believe that this is the true essence of Dazai's literature.