A novel by Takako Takahashi that portrays the inner life of a solitary woman at a point where the borders between reality and fantasy, reason and madness, begin to waver.

Solitude slowly changes the outline of reality inside the woman.

A Tomiko Miyao novel tracing the fates of four women raised in Kochi's geisha world through the upheavals of war and its aftermath. With affectionate narration, it follows women trying to survive by wit and pride.

The fortunes of four women in the geisha world divide under the storm of war.