Yozo endears himself to the bartender from Kyobashi by telling her one night that he left Shizuko for her. In response, the kind bartender lets him live in an apartment above the bar. Although he later moves out of this apartment when he gets married to Yoshiko, the bartender from Kyobashi still seems to play an important role in his life, perhaps because she feels that she has a connection to him. Years later, it’s she who receives Yozo’s notebooks in the mail—an indication that Yozo felt connected to her, too. She ends up giving the notebooks to the unnamed speaker.
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The Bartender from Kyobashi Character Timeline in No Longer Human
The timeline below shows where the character The Bartender from Kyobashi appears in No Longer Human. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
The Third Notebook: Part One
...leaving Shizuko, Yozo goes to a bar in the Kyobashi neighborhood, where he tells the bartender who manages the bar that he left Shizuko for her. This is all he needs...
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The Third Notebook: Part Two
Flatfish is there when Yozo regains consciousness. He’s talking to the bartender in charge of the bar in Kyobashi, remarking that the last time Yozo tried to...
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Epilogue
...madman who wrote these notebooks”—that is, he never met Yozo. He did, however, know the bartender who ran the bar in Kyobashi, whom Yozo has written about. The speaker visited her...
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The unnamed speaker tells the bartender from Kyobashi that he never knew Yozo, but she still gives him three of his...
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...notebooks published without alteration. The next day, he returns to the café and asks the bartender from Kyobashi about them. She says she received them in the mail a decade ago....
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