Older Japanese Literature: Kinosaki Nite by Shiga Naoya

Recently I finished reading Shiga Naoya's work 'Kinosaki Nite' (at Kinosaki). In addition to being (slow) reading practice, it is a good example of an older narritive style in Japanese literature.
The story revolves around the narrator, who is involved in an accident and sent to the small town of Kinosaki. Here he becomes slightly depressed, and his injury still afflicts him to some degree. He describes his daily routines and a few moments of interest, all of which seem to revolve around death: a dead worker bee, a rat struggling for its life to escape a river and a newt which he killed by accident.
At the end of the story, the narrator is left with a feeling of closeness to death and to life aswell which, he realises, are not polar extremes, but very much the same thing.
A little grim, but a good short read at less than 10 pages.