Utage No Ato (Shincho Bunko)

[Machine Translation] At a banquet, the owner of a ryotei (Japanese-style restaurant), Fukuzawa Kazu, who had thought she had nothing to do with love, was strongly attracted to a single man, Noguchi Yuken. Kazu, with her passion and energy, and Noguchi, a proud former foreign minister, are married after a trip to Nara. Noguchi was asked to be a candidate for the Innovation Party, and the couple threw themselves into the election campaign. Although the work was rocked by the model issue, it was highly acclaimed in Japan and abroad as a novel depicting the end of romanticism between a man and a woman. The Tokyo gubernatorial election was modeled on Japan's first privacy trial.

もはや恋愛と無縁だと思っていた料亭の女主人福沢かづは、ある宴席で、独り身の野口雄賢に強く惹かれた。熱情と行動力を備えたかづと、誇り高き元外相の野口は、奈良への旅を経て、結婚する。野口は請われて革新党候補となり、夫妻は選挙戦に身を投じることに。モデル問題で揺れた作品ながら、男女の浪漫の終焉を描いた小説として、国内海外で高く評価された。都知事選をモデルとし、日本初のプライバシー裁判に。