Koge is Sawako Ariyoshi's long novel about love and resentment between a mother and daughter living in the world of traditional entertainment from the late Meiji era through the postwar years. Through a freewheeling mother and the daughter who both resents and supports her, it layers women's lives, family bonds, and social constraint.

Set in the old entertainment quarters, it portrays the love, resentment, and sorrow of mother and daughter.