【第五章】村上春樹故跡探尋之旅 Following the footsteps of Haruki Murakami Chapter 5

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看《朝日新聞》得知打出這裡是有個公園紀念村上春樹的。當年是個動物園，最後只剩下猴子，直到今天猴子也沒有了，就留下了個空空的猴籠。村上的第一部作品《且聽風吟》里提到主角跟鼠一起開車，撞上動物園護欄，引擎蓋飛出撞醒了動物園的猴子的，是以這裡為原型。為了紀念村上春樹，當地甚至專門裝飾了這個籠子，上面的一幅畫里猴子還捧着村上的《海邊的卡夫卡》在看。
According to Asahi Shimbun I read years ago, there is a Monkey Park in Uchide. On its site was a zoo, but the cage for monkeys is all that has left. The monkey case was mentioned in Murakami’s first work, Hear the Wind Sing, when the protagonist first met Nezumi (Mouse) and they drunk-drove and hit the zoo, and the hood of the car hit the cage which woke the monkeys. Local authority has taken steps to memorize this connection between Murakami and the zoo by decorating the cage with paintings. One of the paintings there is a monkey reading Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore.