Contents

1. Title Page
2. A WALK IN THE SPRING
3. WATCHING AND LISTENING
4. SUMMER’S END
5. GROWING OLD
6. LATE SUMMER
7. THE OLD DAYS
8. FROM TIME TO TIME
9. ON A HEALTH CURE
10. A LESSON
11. THE FERRYMAN
12. HOW SWIFTLY THINGS PASS
13. THE MAN OF FIFTY
14. ON GROWING OLD
15. REUNION WITH NINA
16. AS WE GROW OLD
17. FOR MAX WASSMER ON HIS SIXTIETH BIRTHDAY
18. SKETCH
19. DYING
20. [THE LAST JOURNEY OF THIS KIND]
21. NO REST
22. DEAD LEAF
23. [HARMONY OF MOVEMENT AND REST]
24. MARCH SUNSHINE
25. ON AGE
26. AUTUMN RAIN
27. A GREY WINTER’S DAY
28. A SMALL BOY
29. STAGES
30. LANGUAGE OF SPRING
31. WEARY EVENING
32. THE OLD MAN AND HIS HANDS
33. THE LITTLE CHIMNEY SWEEP
34. THINKING BACK
35. [CHANGING BACK]
36. MAXIM
37. AUTUMN COMES EARLY
38. [THE FRENZY OF THE BOOM AND THE FEVER OF PROPERTY SPECULATION]
39. LADY WORLD, FAREWELL
40. SOMETIMES
41. [A CALL FROM BEYOND CONVENTION]
42. END OF AUGUST
43. THE FLOWERING BRANCH
44. AUTUMNAL EXPERIENCES
45. ON THE NEWS OF THE DEATH OF A FRIEND
46. A WALK IN LATE AUTUMN
47. [THE TENDENCY TOWARDS FIXED HABITS AND REPETITIONS]
48. THE PATH TO LONELINESS
49. [HAVING REACHED VERY OLD MANHOOD]
50. ON AN AGE-OLD, WEATHER-BEATEN BUDDHA IN A WOODED GORGE IN JAPAN
51. CHINESE PARABLE
52. THE RAISED FINGER
53. FIRST SNOW
54. ALL DEATHS
55. BROTHER DEATH
56. ONCE, A THOUSAND YEARS AGO
57. LITTLE SONG
58. AFTERWORD
59. A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
60. ABOUT THIS EDITION
61. Also Available from Pushkin Press
62. About the Publisher
63. Copyright
65. The titles in square brackets denote passages taken from longer texts.