[DeepL Translation - needs review] Higuchi Ichiyo's teacher, Nakajima Utako, had an unknown past. She grew up as the daughter of a merchant family in Edo at the end of the Edo period (1603-1868). However, her husband is a member of the Tengu party, the vanguard of the ruling Japanese ruling party that seeks to exclude the barbarians. When civil war breaks out, Utako and her wife and children are imprisoned as rebels. This Naoki Prize-winning novel depicts a poet who ran from the end of the E...
