

Around the 03:00-mark of episode 6 of Kyoukai no Kanata, Hiro'omi is shown
reading a book:

![Hiro'omi reading a book](https://i.stack.imgur.com/7Vxb7.jpg)

What book is this?


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What is Hiro'omi reading at the beginning of episode 6 of Kyoukai no Kanata?


A brief search into some of the text displayed in the screenshot reveals that
this page contains part of the text of " **Eiketsu no Asa** " (永訣の朝; roughly
"The Morning of a Final Farewell";
[text](http://ww8.tiki.ne.jp/~takam/bungaku/eiketu.htm); [a
reading](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkjJm_w_WpM)), a poem by [Kenji
MIYAZAWA](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenji_Miyazawa)1. "Eiketsu no Asa" is
part of his first published collection, _Haru to Shura_ (春と修羅; _Spring and
Asura_ ).

In what may prove to be a bit of foreshadowing, "Eiketsu no Asa" was written
on the occasion of the untimely death of Kenji's younger sister, Toshi.

* * *

1 Miyazawa may be better-known to Western audiences for his novel [_Night on
the Galactic
Railroad_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_on_the_Galactic_Railroad), which
was made into [an anime
film](http://myanimelist.net/anime/1441/Night_on_the_Galactic_Railroad) back
in 1985.


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