Meguri Ito

[Machine Translation] I was born in the year the war ended and grew up in the Hanamachi district of Kudan. My mother was a reputed geisha, and my grandmother was her employer. My father met my mother while visiting as a guest, and I was born. When I was in the second grade of elementary school, I met Tetsuji, a child who lived at the geisha house "Tsurunoya. This was the beginning of a long story woven by the threads of a mysterious destiny. This is a full-length novel that breaks new ground.

終戦の年に生まれた“わたし”は、九段の花街で育った。家は置屋から芸者を呼ぶ料亭「八重」であり、母は評判の芸者で、祖母がその雇い主をつとめていた。客として訪れた父は母と知り合い、わたしが生まれた。小学二年生のとき、わたしは置屋「鶴ノ家」に住む子・哲治と出会う。それは、不可思議な運命の糸が織りなす長い物語の始まりだった―。新境地を拓く魂の長編小説。