Decades later his grandson Hibino Takeo, poring over his grandfather's diary in a study hung with Chinese calligraphy and full of Chinese books, and having grown up hearing his father recite Chinese poetry of his own composition, formed a picture in his mind of that faraway but oddly familiar land.
百年後，他的孫子日比野丈夫，自小在掛有中國字畫、布滿中國典籍的書房中翻閱著祖父的日記，傾聽父親吟哦的自賦漢詩，在腦海描繪那個遙遠卻不陌生的國度。