The Handkerchief by Akutagawa Ryūnosuke

Prof. Hasegawa Kinzō, of the Law College of the Imperial University, was sitting in a cane chair on his veranda reading Strindberg's Dramaturgy.

His special study was colonial policy. Wherefore the fact that he was reading Dramaturgy may cause the reader some surprise. But he, a professor noted not only as a scholar but as an educator, even if the books were not necessary for his special investigations, always, so far as his leisure permitted, looked through any books that were connected in any sense with the thought or feelings of present-day students. In truth, not long before, he had read Oscar Wilde's "De Profundis" and Intentions only because the students of a certain college of which, along with his other work, he acted as president, were fond of them.