Language: Japanese. 16 p.
Translator into Japanese: Hirai Hajime.
Year: 2006.
Publisher: 岩波文庫。
“May Night, or the Drowned Woman” is a story by Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol. Part of the series “Evenings on a farm near Dikanka”. Written in 1829 - 1830.
On a quiet and clear evening, girls and boys gather in a circle and sing songs. The young Cossack Levko, the son of the village mayor, approaches one of the huts and calls out the clear-eyed Hanna with a song.