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Author: (Japanese) Miyabe Saki
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Publish Date: 2000-12-01
Features: The protagonist of this book, Arai, has been blind since childhood. Thanks to her natural talent and diligence, she not only becomes an independent person in life but also a strong figure in her career, ultimately saving her family's declining sake brewery and becoming one of the most prominent female bosses in the sake industry at the time. On a snowy night in the eighth year of the Taisho era (1919), Arai was born. Her father, Isao, was a landowner in Kita-machi, Niigata Prefecture, and the second-generation successor to the manufacturer of the sake "Fuyuriki." Her mother, Kasumi, had been pregnant eight times but none of her children survived due to stillbirths, miscarriages, or early deaths. To ensure her only child could grow up healthy, her parents gave her the unsuitable name "Arai," hoping she would be strong, happy, and long-lived. The frail Kasumi was helped by her younger sister, Saki, who remained single and stayed at her sister-in-law's house to raise Arai, as requested by her sister. This motherly bond helped Arai grow up quickly, but before she started school, it was discovered that her eyes were abnormal. She suffered from nyctalopia, a degenerative eye disease that would lead to blindness and could not be treated. The tragic and beautiful story of Arai and her family begins here.