English translation of Mushroom Conference by Kyusaku Yumeno, written at the age of 33

Original Japanese You can read it here: one night a group of mushrooms including first mushroom the matsutake mushroom the shiitake mushroom the white mushroom gathered and began to talk the first mushroom stood up to greet them it’s getting colder and colder these days so it’s time for us to retreat into the soil tonight we will have a farewell banquet so please give your speeches as much as you like i’ll write it up and publish it in the newspaper everyone clapped their hands and the shiitake mushrooms came up next my name is shitake recently people have been so interested in me that they have gone to the trouble of rotting trees to make fields for me and we have been able to grow bigger and bigger offspring i hope that in the future humans will create fields for any mushrooms everyone clapped their hands in agreement then the matsutake mushroom coughed and made a speech first thing we have to do is to spread our umbrellas and seeds so that our o