Hayase Chikara, a German translator and disciple of the scholar Sakai, secretly lives in Kagurazaka with the former geisha Otsuta while the Kono family and the schoolgirl Taeko press into his life. When his teacher forces him to give up Otsuta, he leaves for Shizuoka to open a German school, and the sacrifice drives the story to its tragic close.
Books mentioned in Onna Keizu (3)
Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “"If I studied as hard as I could, how many years would it take before I could read something like Goethe's famous Faust, or Schiller's Wilhelm Tell... was that the name?" "You'll soon be able to read them," he said, taking the reader from her. "Or at least to my level, with that proviso." [auto-translated]”
Wilhelm Tell by Friedrich Schiller: “"If I studied as hard as I could, how many years would it take before I could read something like Goethe's famous Faust, or Schiller's Wilhelm Tell... was that the name?" "You'll soon be able to read them," he said, taking the reader from her. "Or at least to my level, with that proviso." [auto-translated]”
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “The job was the long-promised one, a literal translation of Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther. "They say the great poet once clinked wine glasses with Schiller and swore that their verse would grow nobler with the years, like this wine," said the lady, holding her glass to the fire, proud of her learning. [auto-translated]”