The Flowers of Buffoonery

The Flowers of Buffoonery (道化の華, Dōke no Hana) is a 1935 Japanese novella by Osamu Dazai. It was first published in the short-lived coterie journal Nihon romanha and has been described as a "major contribution" to the magazine. In 1936, the novella was included in Dazai's first book-length fiction collection The Final Years. The story shares a protagonist with Dazai's novel No Longer Human (1948), which it preceded by thirteen years.