“The Death of a Certain Woman,” by Yasushi Inoue
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An excerpt from a story collection by the late Yasushi Inoue, translated, from the Japanese, by J. Martin Holman: Every child in the village knew about Omitsu and had learned the unfamiliar word “mistress.”
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