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About This Novel
This book is the most famous novella by Japanese aesthetic master Junichiro Tanizaki. Chunqin, the daughter of an Osaka medicine merchant, was blind since she was a child. She is beautiful, intelligent, and extremely talented, and she shows amazing talent in music. Sasuke, a young man who came to her house as an apprentice, admired her. While serving her wholeheartedly, he also secretly learned shamisen, and the two became half master-servant, half master-student relationship. After establishing his own business, Chunqin was disfigured due to the jealousy of others, and Sasuke stabbed himself in the eyes. The two of them went deep into the unknown world of the two. "Yoshino Kudzu" is a novella based on the local historical legend of Yoshino. It is both fictional and factual, and is very interesting. "I" was preparing to write a historical novel set in Yoshino, and came to Yoshino to collect information, but it led to "my" friend Tsumura's longing for the past of his mother who died young, and a beautiful marriage was formed.
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