Otami Kaishu Koinaka (Shogakukan Bunko)

[Machine Translation] Otami, a geisha at Tatsumi, is invited to a dinner party where she is reunited with her childhood friend Katsu Rintaro. Rintaro, who is training in Dutch studies, falls in love with Otami and asks her to marry him. Otami had given up on the idea of marrying an Hatamoto, but Rintaro's father, Shokichi, came to Otami's place. Shokichi liked Otami, and although Otami's mother-in-law, Onobu, did not take kindly to her, the two celebrated and started a new life together in a small house in Tameike, but... They borrowed the Dutch-Japanese dictionary "Zuf Halma" at a high price and spent a year copying two copies, which resulted in a loss of income and plunged them into a life of poverty, tearing off ceiling boards and burning them as firewood! This is the first work in a series about the checkered life of Katsu Kaishu and his wife!

辰巳芸者のおたみは、呼ばれた席で幼馴染みの勝麟太郎と再会。蘭学を修業中の麟太郎は、おたみに惚れて一緒になろうと口説いてくる。旗本との結婚など無理な話と諦めていたおたみの所に、麟太郎の父小吉がやってきた。小吉に気に入られ、姑となるお信にはいい顔をされなかったが、二人は祝言をあげ、溜池のあばら家で新生活を始めたが...。蘭和辞典「ヅーフ・ハルマ」を高額で借り受けて一年かけて二部筆写するという作業のため、収入は途絶え、天井板をはがして薪代わりに燃やすという、貧乏生活に突入!勝海舟夫婦の波瀾万丈の生涯を描く、シリーズ第一作!