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...left him a civilian, and like other kinsmen of the Imperial family, without title. His Tokyo mansion had been bombed; he built himself a modest cottage on the site of the ruins. There he and his wife, the former Princess Hanako Kanin, settled down as plain Mr. & Mrs. Hironobu Kacho...
...from tradition had been to learn modern dancing. In her first days as a commoner, while her husband tended his fowl, she gave dancing lessons to other former lords and ladies in her living room. The dances became parties, and the parties moved to the fashionable Industry Club. Mrs. Kacho began to get around. As she explained it all later, "Immersed only in his chickens . . . my husband was not the type of person who could wrap you in warmth . . . and you know what that does to a passionate woman...
Then last year she met a type of person who wrapped her in warmth: Tokyotaro Toda, 52, a chunky playboy, graduate of Cambridge and son of a Kobe landowner. Mrs. Kacho, then 40, was collecting for the Women's Welfare Society. Toda, a divorced man, contributed handsomely, added gifts on the side for Mrs. Kacho...
...Kacho stuck to his chickens, though he saw a change come over his wife. "Each time they met, I thought each cup of coffee or tumbler of whisky she accepted was drugged. At first one drop, then two-until he had completely won her heart." One night last July, Toda called at the Kacho cottage, presumably to talk charities. "Unsuspectingly," said the ex-prince, "I opened the door to the cloakroom and there I discovered the figures of Toda and Hanako as I should never have seen them...
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