In old Japan there must have been couples who quietly loved each other, raised their children and lived happily ever after.
They are not the stuff of love stories.
Love in the literature of the Edo Period (1603-1868) is tragic always, criminal often, fatal usually. A lover plunges into love not expecting to make it out alive. What does life matter in this fleeing, insubstantial world?
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