Word: yamano
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Dates: during 1936-1936
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...apprenticed to a house in the Yoshiwara district of Tokyo, where the streets are well kept and the architecture more uniform than in most other quarters. When her year's apprenticeship is up and she is ready for work, a rich businessman named Yamano takes a liking to her, reserves her for himself. Naive, lonely, she is soon fond...
...Yamano has and deserves little affection in his own family. His son, Shigeo, is a university student, sensitive to the newest thinking of the West, out of sympathy with his father's commercialism, his reactionary social code. Some of Shigeo's friends are arrested on suspicion of Communism. Shigeo, fearing that he may be implicated with them, is reassured by his old friend Major Honjo, a kind-hearted Christian convert who carries on a one - man rescue mission among the Yoshiwara women. At one of Major Honjo's Sunday Bible readings Shigeo meets and falls in love...