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An Episode of Mobilization (A Two-Act Play)Author: Kishida Kunio

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Original Title	動員挿話（二幕）
Author	岸田国士
Genre	Popular Fiction
Author Type	Male Author
Summary	In summer 1904 Tokyo, as Japan mobilizes for war, Major Uji pressures his groom Tomokichi to join him at the front. Tomokichi’s wife Kazuyo, a fiercely independent woman educated at a girls’ school, resists fiercely, declaring she’d rather die than be separated from him. Her defiance clashes with the Major’s rigid ideals of honor and duty, exposing tensions between personal devotion and patriotic sacrifice. While Suzuko, the Major’s wife, quietly envies Kazuyo’s passionate resolve, Tomokichi wavers—torn between societal expectations and his wife’s desperate pleas. As military bugles sound and trunks are packed, Kazuyo’s threats escalate, challenging notions of loyalty and womanhood in a society that dismisses her voice. The household fractures under unspoken fears: of cold battlefields, fragile marriages, and the cost of defiance. Kishida Kunio’s taut drama weaves class divides and intimate betrayals into a powder-keg confrontation where love and duty collide—and no one emerges unscathed.