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The translator: Dennis Keene, an English poet who has lived and taught in Japan for many years, is known for his distinguished translations of Maruya's Rain in the Wind and Morio Kita's The House of Nire, among other works of Japanese fiction.
I kept expecting her to notice me, but although she was facing in my direction she still maintained her rather prim, distant expression. I finally lost my patience and raised my hand when I saw she was looking intently at me, and then immediately her face broke into a smile of incredible sweetness, like a flower opening. Straight away she stepped smoothly out toward me, still smiling, and I let out a great shout of warning. A light brown limousine swept by on the other side of the road but, once it had passed, there was Yukari back on the edge of the sidewalk and still smiling at me. The lights at last turned green and Yukari and I met in the middle of the crossing, where she separated from the old foreign couple and the women returning from their wedding since she went back with me to the side from which she'd come.
As we walked toward the hotel she said:
"Fancy shouting like that!" remonstrating as she stared at me with her great big eyes.
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