This work depicts the decline of the Japanese nobility after World War II. It focuses on Kazuko and her brother Naoji, and their elderly mother. The story shows a family in decline and crisis, like many other families during this period of transition between traditional Japan and a more advanced, industrial society. Many families needed to leave their old lives behind and start anew. Through the character Naoji, the author brings up a number of social and philosophical problems of that time.
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