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Updated: July 9, 2025
During October, the whole family of the Fujinami removed from Tokyo for a few days in order to perform their religious duties at the temple of Ikégami. Even grandfather Gennosuké emerged from his dower-house, bringing his wife, O Tsugi. Mr. Fujinami Gentaro was in charge of his own wife, Shidzuyé San, of Sadako and of Asako.
We were at school together here in Tokyo." This interested Asako immensely. She tried to make the lawyer talk further, but he said that it was a very long story, and he must tell her some other time. Then she asked him about her cousin, Mr. Fujinami Gentaro. "He is away from town just now. When he returns, I think he will invite you to splendid feast." With that he took his leave.
He bowed twice before him, and held out a claw-like hand. "Mr. Fujinami Gennosuké, the father of Mr. Fujinami Gentaro," announced Ito. "He has retired from life. He wishes to drink wine with you. Please wash your cup and give it to him." There was a kind of finger-bowl standing in front of Geoffrey, which he had imagined might be a spittoon.
Fujinami Gentaro put his writing-box aside with a leisurely gesture, for a Japanese gentleman of culture must never be in a hurry. "Indeed, it has been so noisy, composition has become impossible," he complained; "has that foreigner come, to the house?" Modern Japanese assure their foreign friends that it has fallen altogether into disuse; but such is not the case.
"Ladyship is not prisoner. Ladyship must say, I go. But perhaps I can arrange matter for Ladyship." "Oh, Tanaka, please, please do. I'm so unhappy here." "I will hire cook and maid for Ladyship. I myself will be seneschal!" Mr. Fujinami Gentaro and his family were delighted to hear that their plan was working so smoothly, and that they could so easily get rid of their embarrassing cousin.
Fujinami Gentaro himself, with whom the same ceremony of the saké drinking was repeated; and then all the family passed by, one after another, each taking the cup and drinking. It was like a visiting figure in the lancers' quadrille. As each relative bent and bowed, Ito announced his name and quality. These names seemed all alike, alike as their faces and as their garments were.
Fujinami Gentaro rose from his humble place at the far end of the room. In a speech full of poetical quotations, which must have cost his tame students considerable trouble in the composition, he welcomed Asako Barrington, who, he said, had been restored to Japan like a family jewel which has been lost and is found. He compared her visit to the sudden flowering of an ancient tree.
He was strongly of opinion that it was the curse of Asako's father which had brought this sorrow upon his family. Katsundo and Asako were representatives of the elder branch. Himself, Gentaro and Takeshi were mere usurpers. Restore the elder branch to its rights, and the indignant ghost would cease to plague them all. Such was the argument of grandfather Gennosuké.
Fujinami Gentaro naturally supported the claims of his own progeny. If Takeshi's children must be disinherited because of the leprous strain, then, at least, Sadako remained. She was a well-educated and serious girl. She knew foreign languages. She could make a brilliant marriage. Her husband would be adopted as heir. Perhaps the Governor of Osaka?
Hers was a graceful figure; but her expression was spoiled by the blue-tinted spectacles which completely hid her features. "Miss Sadako Fujinami, daughter of Mr. Fujinami Gentaro," said Ito. "She has been University undergraduate, and she speaks English quite well." Miss Sadako bowed three times. Then she said, "How do you do" in a high unnatural voice.
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