花腐し (Hana Kutashi)

Hisaki Matsuura (born March 18, 1954) is a Japanese novelist, poet, and professor of culture and representation at the University of Tokyo, holding a Ph.D. in French literature from the Sorbonne Nouvelle. He gained prominence with his debut story collection Mono no tawamure (1996) and achieved major acclaim through the Akutagawa Prize for Hana kutashi (2000) and the Yomiuri Prize for Hantō (2004), with works like Tomoe translated into English as Triangle.