Jun Ishikawa was the pen-name of a modernist author, translator and literary critic active in Shōwa period Japan. His real name (written in the same kanji) was Ishikawa Kiyoshi.
Beautifully written short story that got banned on the grounds of fomenting anti-military and anti-war thought during the Japanese war against China in 1936. The only one of this spirit that Ishikawa wrote.