by Itō Sachio · 1906
Looking back more than ten years, Masao recalls growing up in a farmhouse at Yagiri with his cousin Tamiko, two years his elder, whose easy closeness is spoiled when the household gossips. Sent away to school, he learns too late that Tamiko was married against her will and died holding his photograph and letter, and he lays wild chrysanthemums on her grave.