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The wife is not looked in on by the husband like in The Crane Wife; instead like in Crane's Return of a Favor the pheasant wife leaves as soon as the favor is returned. In The Bird Wife, it is an injured wild goose the man saves. In this story, the wife weaves without prompting from the husband. One day she disappears, and he finds her in a ...
The Sound of Waves (潮騒, Shiosai) is a 1954 novel by the Japanese author Yukio Mishima. It is a coming-of-age story of the protagonist Shinji and his romance with Hatsue, [ 1 ] the beautiful daughter of the wealthy ship owner Terukichi.
With help from Oshin's landlady, the couple start a fish shop in town. Ryūzō begins to learn about fish and how to prepare and cook it. Oshin writes to Saga to update Ryūzō's parents on his whereabouts. Kiyo is furious and asks her husband to go to Ise to retrieve Ryūzō, but he tells Kiyo that she must never separate them again.
The majority of Japanese people remain committed to traditional ideas of family, with a husband who provides financial support, a wife who works in the home, and two children. [ 34 ] [ 54 ] [ 55 ] Labor practices , such as long working hours , health insurance , and the national pension system , are premised on a traditional breadwinner model .
Netflix will produce the new Japanese film “In Love and Deep Water,” a suspenseful romantic comedy written by acclaimed creator Sakamoto Yuji. The story is set on a massive luxury cruise ship.
Nigorie (Japanese: にごり江, Hepburn: Nigorie), translated into English as Troubled Waters and Muddy Bay, is a short story [1] by Japanese writer Ichiyō Higuchi, written and published in 1895. [2] It depicts the fate of a courtesan in the red light district of a nameless town during the Meiji era. [2]
Urashima Tarō and princess of Horai, by Matsuki Heikichi (1899) Urashima Tarō (浦島 太郎) is the protagonist of a Japanese fairy tale (otogi banashi), who, in a typical modern version, is a fisherman rewarded for rescuing a sea turtle, and carried on its back to the Dragon Palace (Ryūgū-jō) beneath the sea.
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