Counterfeiter and Other Stories

In "The Counterfeiter," a writer is commissioned to write the biography of a famous painter but becomes fascinated by a man who produced forgeries of the artist's work. "Obasute" concerns a man's obsession with a legend of old women being taken to a mountain and abandoned, and his interpretation of the actions of the members of his family in light of this legend. " The Full Moon" is a story of company politics, particularly the rise and fall of the firm's president, told largely through incidents at annual company parties.