{"product_id":"book-2fap","title":"屏風はたたまれた \/ The Folding Screen Was Closed","description":"\u003cp\u003eYajuro Yoshimura is a talented young samurai whose arranged marriage has recently been settled.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe then receives repeated letters from a woman named Yuki, claiming that a sheltered young lady called Chiyo has fallen desperately in love with him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt a theater teahouse, behind a folding screen and beneath dim lantern light, Yajuro meets the mysterious woman. Their secret meetings continue, and he becomes determined to abandon his arranged marriage and make Chiyo his wife.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut after their seventh meeting, Chiyo vanishes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe teahouses deny that Yuki, Chiyo, or even the servants Yajuro remembers ever existed. Every trace of the encounters appears to have been deliberately erased.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnable to forget her, Yajuro searches for an explanation and begins connecting Chiyo with rumors surrounding the birth of his lord's heir.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis father finally asks whether this obsession is truly the most important matter in his life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt that moment, Yajuro imagines the folding screen being taken down. The illusion releases its hold upon him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The Folding Screen Was Closed\" is a subtle psychological tale of secrecy, desire, memory, social duty, and the moment a person chooses to let go.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten by Shugoro Yamamoto.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNarrated by Shichimi Shungorō.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProduced and published by Marutake Shobo.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e縁談を控えた青年武士・吉村弥十郎のもとへ、「ゆき」と名乗る乳母から奇妙な手紙が届く。\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e仕える娘・千夜が弥十郎を見初め、恋い焦がれて病気のようになっているため、一度だけ会ってほしいという。\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e劇場茶屋の閉ざされた座敷。雪洞の淡い光と、立て回された屏風の内側で、弥十郎は素性を明かさない千夜と会う。\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e秘密の逢瀬を重ねるうち、弥十郎は決められた縁談を破棄し、千夜を妻に迎えようと決意する。\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eしかし七度目の後、千夜は突然姿を消す。\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e茶屋は「ゆき」という女も千夜も知らず、弥十郎が会った女中さえ存在しなかったと答える。二人が会った事実そのものが、初めからなかったように消されていた。\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e千夜を忘れられない弥十郎は、やがて藩主の世子誕生をめぐる噂と彼女を結びつけて考え始める。\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eだが父から、自分にはほかに大切なことがないのかと問われた瞬間、弥十郎の心に立てられていた屏風が静かにたたまれる。\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e秘密の恋、記憶の誇張、執着からの解放を描く、山本周五郎の繊細な心理時代小説。\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYouTube:七味春五郎の音本\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"INAudio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":67721042690352,"sku":"BD2fap","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/2fap-Square-cover.png?v=1788372952","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-2fap","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}