The Crimson Thread of Abandon

The Crimson Thread of Abandon is a collection of short fiction by Shūji Terayama, translated into English by Elizabeth L. Armstrong and published by the University of Hawai'i Press in 2013. The book contains a total of 20 stories. The stories in the first half of the book originate from the collection Stories Sewn Up with a Red Thread.

Robert Anthony Siegel wrote in Three Percent that the translation had a "graceful" approach to wordplay and puns, and that the translator did her task "with sensitivity and skill".