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Japanese Literature (br) Received the 164th Naoki Prize in 2020 "Everyone has a feeling of stagnation. But that But that's what people are." In a part of Sendagi town in Edo, it is called Uramachi, and there is a small, stagnant river called Uraasanashi River. There are old nagaya lined up at the end of the river, and the people living there also struggled with the flow of life. vegetables wholesaler Osumi Ya Rokubei keeps four non-beautiful concubines in one nagaya. One of them, Oriki, who is the oldest and worried about the future, while looking at the Harikata brought by Rokubei, he carved a Buddha statue with a small sword out of his evil mind. ("閨仏"). 与吾 Kura, who runs a rice shop in a uranagaya, hears a small voice of singing at Nezu Gongen, where he stops on his way home from buying. It was a rare song often uttered by a woman who had been thrown away by 与吾 Kura, who had been living rough days. The voice of singing is the child of a small woman. It was 与吾 Kura who spoke without thinking ("Let's begin") and six other episodes. This is a period novel by the author who weaves the joy of living and the sorrow of living.