Nowake No Cho Edo Shokunin Tsuzuri (Tokuma Bunko Chi 8-2 Tokuma Jidai Shosetsu Bunko)

[Machine Translation] Fifteen years after his apprenticeship, chef Banji finally has his own restaurant. He finally has his own restaurant. At that moment, a bitter thought came to Banji: "It's time for me to have a wife. Seven years ago, Otsuna broke her promise to be with another man and started a family. But the man deceived her and sold her to a brothel, where she died of a broken body... This is a collection of masterpiece historical novels depicting a craftsman who lives hard by relying on his skills.

奉公してから十五年、ようやく自分の店を持つことになった料理人の伴次。店を持ったら女手が必要になる。そろそろ女房を持ってもいいのでは―その時、伴次に苦い思いが湧いた。七年前、一緒になるという約束を破り、他の男と所帯を持ったおつな。だが男に騙され、女郎屋に売られたあげく体をこわして死んだのだ...。己の腕を頼りに懸命に生きる職人の姿を描いた傑作時代小説集。