Footprints - footprints

Japanese: 足迹 - あしあと

A full-length novel by Tokuda Shusei. First published in the Yomiuri Shimbun in 1910 (Meiji 43), it was published by Shinchosha in 1919. It is a companion piece to Mold, and is based on the first half of Shusei's life before he married his wife, Hamano. Osho's family moves to Tokyo to try to make a name for themselves in the city with the money they made from selling their farmland and house in their hometown, but the father's business fails and the family is torn apart. Leaving her parents, Osho moves from one household to another, working in a haberdashery in Asakusa, helping her aunt who runs a boarding house in Yushima, and working as a maid for a merchant in Nihonbashi. She then becomes the wife of a restaurant owner in the suburbs, but becomes fed up with her husband and runs away from there.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

徳田秋声の長編小説。1910年(明治43)《読売新聞》に発表。12年，新潮社から刊行。秋声の妻はまの彼と結婚するまでの前半生を素材とした作品で，《黴（かび）》の姉妹編。お庄の一家は，故郷の田畑･家屋敷を処分して得た金を元手に都会で一旗挙げるべく，家族こぞって上京するが，父親は事業に失敗し，一家離散の悲運が訪れる。両親のもとを離れたお庄は，浅草の小間物屋，湯島で下宿屋を営む伯母の手伝い，日本橋の商家の女中奉公というように，他人の家を転々とした後，郊外の料理屋の嫁となるが，夫に嫌気がさしてそこから逃げ出す。

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