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Itoguruma

糸車

Itoguruma

Book 2016

O-Kinu lives alone in a tenement house in Fukagawa. Until three years ago she was married to a chief retainer of the Matsumae domain, but her husband was murdered and her son Yūma disappeared. Now O-Kinu is a peddler, searching for her son as she walks the city. Through her work she gets to know people and gets involved in many incidents: the elopement of a shipping agent's delinquent daugher with a pawnbroker's profligate son, the engagement of...