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The Tokugawa-shogunate age.

The wilderness of Nasuno, Shimodzuke Province.


 * Gohei.—My lady, how do you feel? … Can’t you start again by and by?
 * Okuni.—Yes, but I still feel very tired.
 * Gohei.—It will soon be evening … and it will be very hard for you if we are benighted in this wilderness, so I beg you to keep up your courage for a while until we reach the next village. I know