May 16 – Sakuradoki Zeni no Yononaka ("The Season of Cherry Blossoms; The World of Money"), an adaptation by Genzo Katsu after Bunkai Udagawa of The Merchant of Venice set in the Edo period, is performed by the Nakamura Sojuro Kabuki company at the Ebisu-za Theater in Osaka, the first of Shakespeare's plays to be staged with actors in Japan.[6]
June 1 – More than two million people join Victor Hugo's funeral procession in Paris from the Arc de Triomphe to the Panthéon, where he is the first author to be buried, following his death on May 22 in the city from pneumonia aged 83.
The first translation of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace into English begins publication. It has been done by Clara Bell from a French version.
The first translation of Amy Catherine Walton (Mrs. O. F. Walton)'s Christian novel Christie's Old Organ into Japanese, made by Tajima Kashi, is published, one of the earliest examples of children's literature in Japan.[9]
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↑ Current Biography: Who's News and Why, 1953. Hw Wilson Company. 1953年6月。p. 124. ISBN978-0-8242-0119-7。{{cite book}}ISBN /日付の不一致(ヘルプ)
↑ Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults . Beacham Pub. 1989. p. 929. ISBN978-0-933833-11-1。
↑ガエタナ・マローネ (2007).イタリア文学研究百科事典: AJ . Taylor & Francis. p. 1238. ISBN978-1-57958-390-3。