![]() ![]() Yukiko's cold stepmother listens to him politely and then has him thrown out Noriyoshi's employer, a dealer in erotic art, insists he doesn't know anything and Sano's journey to visit Yukiko's sister, who just might be able to help him, in the nunnery to which she's been banished only ends in disaster. But with no evidence- autopsies are illegal and can't be used to prove anything-and no support from his boss or his patron, Sano doesn't know where to turn. When a doctor sentenced to service in the Edo morgue convinces Sano that Noriyoshi, at least, was killed before he entered the water in which he and Yukiko supposedly drowned themselves, Sano feels honor-bound to follow up the clue. But then what are they? That's the question for Sano Ichiro, newly appointed Senior Police Commissioner of Edo (17th- century Tokyo). ![]() A shinju is a double love-suicide-precisely what the deaths of noblewoman Niu Yukiko and peasant artist Noriyoshi aren't, despite first appearances. ![]()
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