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| Original Title | 藪の鶯 |
|---|---|
| Author | 三宅 花圃 |
| Genre | Popular Fiction |
| Author Type | Female Author |
| Summary | After five years immersed in Western academia, Viscount Tsutomu Shinohara returns to Meiji-era Japan, poised to inherit a prestigious legacy and marry his adoptive sister, Hamako. He expects a future built on enlightened ideals, but instead finds his home awash in a superficial embrace of foreign customs and unsettling whispers surrounding his fiancée. As his adoptive father's health declines, Tsutomu's own ideals are profoundly challenged. He faces a stark reality: the woman he is bound to marry embodies the very shallow modernism he now despises, threatening to unravel not only his personal happiness but the true honor of his family name. Caught between filial duty and a burgeoning moral conscience, Tsutomu must navigate a treacherous landscape of societal expectation and hidden truths. Can he forge a path toward genuine virtue amidst the dazzling, yet deceptive, glow of a new age |
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