I am too Small-breasted
Tanikawa Shuntaro’s Anthology of Poems about Love

Date：03, Sep, 2013
Investigated and Written by Misaka Youhei
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Easy to mind her step. No feel strenuous to lie on her back. Easy to sling over a satchel. Can pass each other without any difficulty. Easy to crawl forward. Seldom be molested. Hardly have a prickly heat. Looks lean. It makes a lot of good things to be flat-chested like these, does not it?

Those are not what a Japanese poet; Tanikawa Shuntaro mentions about in the collection of his poems, named I am too Small-breasted.

Tanikawa Shuntaro is very famous as both a poet and a translator in Japan. For several decades, he had translated an American manga of popularity; Peanuts for Japanese. And it has still kept increasing Japanese fans with translation by the poet.

Namely, it becomes sure evidence to prove his vocabulary contain virtues of evergreen. Of course, you can get it enough when you read the poems on I am too Small-breasted.

You might perceive from the look, this is the collection of poems about love written by Tanikawa Shuntaro. It is hardly known that he is really a matchless philogyny; it may be a wrong word to describe. He is 81 years old and has ever married 3 times in his life.

So to speak, Tanikawa Shuntaro has spent all his life with love affair. It is a collection of his poems about love and cannot be simply immature poems.

With his naked sense and words, Tanikawa rushes on all elements of love as fleeting puppy love, affection, and his philosophy of lovemaking. On love, we feel yearning and dearness and excitement to be unable to hold, no matter how large-breasted we are. Every poem on I am too Small-breasted must cause resonances with your heart.