![]() ![]() ![]() His first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, was published a year later. In that instant, for no reason and on no grounds whatsoever, the thought suddenly struck me: I think I can write a novel,” he wrote. ![]() The satisfying crack when the bat met the ball resounded throughout Jingu Stadium. Poetry, in the form of tanka, also has a major role in 'On a Stone Pillow', here written by another woman lost to the narrator. Not only are we introduced to Murakami’s humble poetry here, but we also see him donning the cap of the narrator. “In the bottom of the first inning, Hilton slammed Sotokoba’s first pitch into left field for a clean double. Yakult Swallows Poetry Collection, the penultimate story, is a pleasant surprise. One evening, during a match between his favourite team Yakult Swallows and Hiroshima Carp, Murakami, then 29, decided to start on a novel. Years later, writer Haruki Murakami found the calling to be a writer while watching a game here. ![]() Jingu is where the great Babe Ruth played, along with legends such as Lou Gehrig, Charlie Gehringer and Lefty Gomez, in an exhibition match in 1934, seven years before Pearl Harbour. For the developers, the 37,000-seated arena is a simple, old-world concrete structure, pleading to be modernised. Thousands have signed a petition to save the “sacred” stadium. For months, hundreds of baseball fans have been converging at the Meiji Jingu Stadium, some seven kilometres from the heart of Tokyo, to protest the proposed demolition and redevelopment of the 97-year-old stadium. ![]()
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