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This book is about duty, family, and about a strong women who early in her marriage has to learn to "kill the self", but also comes to head a large successful merchant class family at the end of the Tokugawa shogunate. There is a lot of historical detail about the sake brewing industry, but this is never boring, and I thought that Lebra's restrained writing style fitted her subject. Minute details - like the frequent descriptions of hair-comb fiddling and fan placement - began to intrude for me
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Aug 19, 2013
Lisa of Hopewell
marked it as to-read
