Overripe

Omasu has left the pleasure quarter on the arm of a gentle, retired man, Asai, and settles into a small house and a life of comfort and doubt. Around her move his relatives, a young woman named Okon, a child, and the quiet tides of money and desire that turn a household.

Tokuda Shūsei's Ran (1913), here titled Overripe, is the great naturalist study of a woman between two worlds, told in sixty short sections.

For readers of Japanese classics, Meiji and Taishō fiction, and unsentimental novels about women's lives.