Hina No Koro Koma Mo No Marufuji Kamban Shimai 4 (Haru Ki Bunko Mi 12-4 Jidai Shosetsu Bunko)

[Machine Translation] Around the first horse day of the year. At Maruto, a small-time goods dealer, the owner, Tohei Fujibei, is dealing with a well-heeled customer who is looking for the best netsuke of the day. Satohisa, the daughter of the owner, is impressed by her father's persistence in listening to his customers. The father confides in her a bitter memory of a quarrel he had with a friend when they were young because of the netsuke. Satohisa tries to resolve their quarrel over the past 20 years. Around the time of the Doll's Festival, he fails to impress a guest who is a good tea master, and reluctantly goes to observe his sister Momo's tea ceremony with her teacher. She is not good at sitting on the floor, and has had nothing but bad memories of tea ceremony practice.... The sister Satohisa, who is a kind-hearted person, and the younger sister Momo, who is a small town girl. This is the fourth story of these close signboard sisters.

初午のころ。小間物商「丸藤」では主の藤兵衛が、当代一の根付を望む好事家の相手をしていた。総領娘の里久は、客の話を粘り強く聞く父に感服しきりだ。そんな娘に父は、若き日に根付が原因で喧嘩別れした友との苦い思い出を打ち明ける。二十年ごしのいさかいを取り持とうとする里久。雛の節句のころには、茶道をよくする得意客のあしらいに失敗し、妹・桃が通うお茶の師匠のもとに渋々見学に行くこととなった。正座が苦手で、これまでお茶の稽古には嫌な思い出しかなかったが...。人情に厚い姉・里久と小町娘の妹・桃。仲の良い看板姉妹の物語、第四作。