Nagareru is one of Aya Koda's major novels, told through the eyes of Rika, a woman who enters a declining geisha house as a live-in maid and observes the lives and emotions of the women there. Its delicate prose follows the sorrow, fragility, and instability behind the glamorous surface of the flower-and-willow world.

A masterpiece by Aya Koda that quietly observes the shifting lives of women in the geisha world from behind the kitchen door.