The Restaurant of Many Orders [Kenji Miyazawa] Translated by SoRaJune 注文の多い料理店 英訳

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Once there were two young gentlemen climbing up deep
into the mountains. They dressed like British
soldiers and walking on the dry leaves carrying shining
guns on their shoulders. They accompanied two dogs resembling polar-bears.
One said, “I am disappointed with these mountains.
So far we could not find any birds or beasts.
I wish something could show up and I could shoot
it right now.”
“It would be nice if I could shoot bullets into
a deer’s yellow belly. It will spin and make a
big fall.”

That was the deep into the mountains. Even their guide
had lost somewhere on the way.
Even their dogs also had got dizzy and foamed at their
mouth then stopped breathing after howling for a while.
“Now my loss is twenty four hundred yen.” said one
gentleman checking the inside of the dog's eye lids.
“Mine is two twenty eight hundred yen.” said the
other sadly inclining his head.
The first gentleman went pale and looked up his
friend’s face.
“Shall we go back now?”
“Yes, let’s. It is getting colder and I’m hungry,
we shall go back.”
“Let’s call it off, then. We can buy ten yen worth
game birds at the inn we stayed yesterday.”
“They had also rabbits, too. We don't need to push
ourselves to hunt any longer. Let’s go back.”

But they lost the way to go back to the inn.
The wind howled and made noises through grasses, dry
leaves and trees.

“I am so hungry and feel the pain in my sides.”
“Me, too. I cann't walk any longer.”
“Neither do I. Oh, how hungry I am!”
“I really want something to eat.”
Those gentlemen talked each other in the miscanthus
bush which was waving in the wind.

Then they found a grand western-style house at the back.
At the entrance, there was a sign.
Restaurant
Wildcat House

“This is great. They would have more visitors than
I thought. Let’s get in.”
“I can't believe there is a restaurant in the middle
of the mountains. I don’t mind as long as they serve
foods.”
“Of course they do. The sign says so.”
“I could faint for starving. Let’s get in.”

They stood in front of the entrance. It was gorgeous,
made of white porcelain bricks.
At the huge glass window it read with golden letters,
“Everyone is welcome. Please feel free to help
yourself.”
They were overjoyed and said, “What a treat! After
having the bad luck for all day long, our efforts
are paid off. This restaurant would serve us free
meals.”
“It would be so as it says ‘help yourself.”

They pushed the glass door and entered inside. There
was a hallway and behind the door a golden lettering
said “We especially welcome plump people and young
people.”
They were more pleased by the notice.
“They will especially welcome us.”
“Yes, we satisfy both of them.”

They walked ahead on the corridor and found a door
painted light blue.
“This house is strange. I wonder why it has so many
doors.”
“This must be a Russian style, houses in the cold
climate or in the mountains are built in this way.”

As the two were about to open the door, they noticed
a yellow sign,"Please understand our restaurant has
many orders.”
“This restaurant would be very popular regardless
its location.”
“Think about this. Even in the centre of the Tokyo,
there aren't so many big restaurants on the big
streets.”

After opening the door, they found another sign on
the other side, "Please forgive us dealing with
many orders.”
“What does this mean?” One made a frown face.
“I guess because of having too many orders, service
will be delayed. So they are asking us to be patient.”
"That’s probably it. I hope we get in the dining
room soon.”
”Yes, I want to sit at the table.”

But they found another door. Next to it was a mirror
and underneath there was a brush with a long handle.
There was also a sign in red letters, "To my dear
guests, please fix your hair and brush off the dirt
from your shoes.”
“This is a reasonable request. Before coming here
I did not expect there was such a nice restaurant
in the middle of the mountains.”
“They are strict with manners. Many important
people would be here as their guests.”

They carefully fixed their hair and brushed mud
from their shoes.
As soon as leaving the brush on the shelf, it was
faded away and strong wind came into the room.

They were startled and huddled close each other.
They opened the door and hurriedly entered into
the next room. Unless having warm foods to raise
their spirits sooner, they would collapse in a
minute.

Inside the door, there was another strange sign,
"Please leave guns and bullets here.”
There was a black long table beside it.
“I see, it is not polite carrying a gun at the
dinner table.”
“Or some VIPs must be here.”

They unloaded the guns and untied gun belts to
place them on the table. Then there was a black
door with a sign, “Please take off your caps,
coats and shoes.”

“Shall we follow this?”
“Yes, we should. Some important guests would be
here.”
So they took off their caps and coats and hooked
on the wall.
They also removed their shoes and started walking
with socks-on feet.

After going through the door, there was another
sign saying, "Please leave all metal objects here
including tie pins, cuff-links, eyeglasses, wallets
and especially sharp ones.”
By the door, there was an impressive safe of glossy
black lacquer.
There was even a key.

“I guess, they may use electricity for their food
serving and wearing any metal objects will cause
a risk, especially sharp ones.”
“You may be right. Do you think we will need to
pay later at this place?”
“I’m sure we will.”
“That’ll be right.”

They removed eyeglasses or cuff links and stored
them in the safe and locked it up.
After taking few steps, there was another door and
at the front there was a glass jar.
A sing on the jar said, “Please apply the cream on
your face, arms and feet.”

Inside the jar, there was milk cream.
“Why would we need to cover cream on us?”
“Well, outside was very cold wasn’t it? Moving
places from very cold to very warm, our skin will
get dried and chapped.
This cream is to prevent that.I believe inside
the restaurant, famous people would dine. We might
get acquaintance with royality in the mountains.”

They applied the cream on their faces, arms and
feet after taking off their socks. As theycould
not use up the cream, they ate some pretending
applying on their faces.

After hurriedly opening the door, there was another
sign,
“Have you applied cream all over your body, even
your ears?”

They found a small cream jar.
“Oh that’s right, I haven’t applied the cream
on my ears. They are about to get chapped.
The host here must be very sincere.”
“Yes, he would be. But I’m very hungry now
and tired of walking on such a long hallway.”

There was another door saying “Your foods are
almost ready,it will take less than 15 minutes
and be served soon. Please put on the perfume on
your head.”

In front of the door, there was a golden perfume
bottle.
They put on fragrance onto their heads. Oddly
it smelled like vinegar.
“I can’t believe this perfume smells like
vinegar.”
“The maid may have got cold or something and
mixed up liquids.”

They opened the door and got inside. On the other
side of the door, it says “Thank you for your
co-operation with many orders. Rest assured this
is the last one. Please apply plenty of salt in
the box on to your bodies.”

There was a beautiful blue china box of salt.
They felt abhorred and looked each other’s faces
which were covered with cream.
“This is fishy.”
“Yes, it is...”
“The ‘many orders’...those are orders for us.”
“‘Western Restaurant’ here wouldn't be the
place to serve us the Western-style foods but the
place to cook us for their meals...
We, we ,we rrrrr...”“We are about to be...”
Their heart throbbed and they became speechless.
“Let’s get out...”
One pushed the door behind but it was tightly
closed.

At the back of the room, there was another door
which had two big key holes shaping a fork and
a knife.
“Thank you for coming this far. You both look
perfect. Please come in.”
They saw two blue eyes peeping at them over the
key holes.
“Oh my! Oh my!”
They were shivering and crying out.

Over the door, they could hear whispering.
“Oh, no, they have noticed what’s going on.
They won't apply the salt.”
“Of course not. Our master’s signs are terrible.
It is so stupid to write‘Thank you for your
co-operation...’”
“It doesn’t matter. He never shared even bones
with us.”
“That is true. But we cannot let them go like
this.”
“Let’s call them in. Please come in our dear
guest! Please come in. The plates are clean and
greens are salted. It is up to you to mix in the
greens and put them on the white plates. Come on
in now.”
“Come in, come in. If you don’t like salad,
we will start fire and prepare for the deep fried
dish. Come in, come in.”

They cried out loud. Their faces became crumpled
like paper trash.
They looked each other’s faces and shivered from
the horror.

From the next room, the voice kept talking and
laughing to them.
“Please come in, come in. If you cry like that,
all the cream on your face will be washed off.
Yes, sir, right now. They are ready. Please come
on in.”
“Come in, come in. Our master is waiting for you
wearing napkin on his chest, holding a knife in
his hand and licking his lips."

They have cried and cried until nothing coming
up from their throats.
Then from their behind, “Bow wow, grrrr!”
Big voice was heard and the two dogs like polar-bear
dogs broke down the doors and ran into the room.
The eyes over the key holes disappeared and the
two dogs grumbling and walking around the room.
Then they roared to the next door and jumped into
it. The door crashed open and the two dogs
vanished into the darkness.
Over the door there was pitch black darkness.

They heard a howling and a roaring and
growling. The room vanished like smoke and that
they found themselves shivering and standing in
the grasses. Their coats, shoes, wallets or tie
pins were hanging on the trees here and there.
Some of them were found at the bottom ofthe trees.
Gale pushed the grasses and fallen leaves and
trees made noises. Dogs came back and howled.

From behind they heard somebody calling them.
They were relived and called out, “We are here,
please come over.”
The local hunter with a straw cap divided the
grasses and found them.

Finally they felt at ease. They ate dumplings that
the hunter brought. On the way home, they bought
ten yen worth game birds then went back to Tokyo.

But after getting back to Tokyo and even taking a
hot bath, they could not repair crumpled up faces
like paper trash.

[The original work in Japanese is on Auzora Bunko.]
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