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Chunqin, the daughter of a medicine merchant, is beautiful, elegant in manners, and excellent in piano skills. However, she has a changeable temperament due to her blindness since childhood. The person who takes care of Haruko's daily life is Sasuke, a young man four years older than her. Because he admires Haruko, he becomes his teacher and practices the shamisen diligently. After that, Haruko treated Sasuke increasingly harshly, almost to the point of being abusive, but Sasuke obeyed without complaint or regret. Haruko's surly character eventually caused her face to be disfigured due to being hated by others, and Sasuke did not hesitate to destroy his eyes in order to show his steadfastness... Cruel and beautiful, "Harukotso" is the pinnacle of Tanizaki Junichiro's creative career and a peak of Japanese aesthetics.
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