[DeepL Translation - needs review] A short story by Kyoka Izumi, a novelist active from the late Meiji to early Showa periods. In mid-June, a beautiful boy is hawking ice when a noblewoman with a waitress asks him for some ice. The boy shaves the ice and hands it to the woman, but the ice is black no matter how many times he shaves it. His stepmother had been mean to him and had put soot on the saw. The boy takes the woman's hand and heads for a creek with hydrangeas in bloom. He cleansed th...
