Kisako Makishi

A member of the jieitai ("Self-Defense Force"; i.e. Japanese military) is on leave and finds a woman giving birth in a graveyard in the former Yoshiwara district. He takes her to an inn to gove birth, and stays on a few days as she recovers, but becomes fascinated with the strange people he meets there, particularly the owner, who visits a house in his courtyard every day to talk and give food to his mother. He says she is very sick and can't leave bed, but no one else has ever been inside or seen her.

The story revolves around Ogino, who is in the last year of his medical studies. Between lectures, exams, on field training, his commitment as a pro-reformist militant and his girlfriend, Ogino is starting to wonder if he's really cut out to be a doctor.

旅に出た、士官学校教授の青地豊二郎と友人の中砂糺。その途中、彼らは弟の葬式に出席してきたという芸者の小稲と出会う。それから1年、中砂から結婚の報を受けた青地は、彼の家を訪ねることに。だが、妻だという園が小稲とうり二つであることに驚かされる。やがて、園は生まれたばかりの娘を残して逝去。中砂の様子を見に行く青地だが、今度は小稲が乳母として娘を抱いていることに驚く。