Summer Rains and Other Stories

A young woman and her maid share a childhood and an attachment that neither can confess. A grateful orphan discovers the demands hidden inside a guardian's devotion. A wife looks back on a marriage transformed by the birth of her child. Five complete stories by Higuchi Ichiyo (1872-1896), first published between 1892 and 1896, follow affection into the rooms where family loyalty, money, reputation and longing make their claims.

Summer Rains, The Sleeve Cord, This Child, A Fleeting Life and Passing Clouds: a complete new translation from the Japanese, with a translator's note, 58 endnotes and source information. AI-assisted translation.