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54 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 14, 2015
Nobuko Yoshiya (吉屋信子 Yoshiya Nobuko) was a Japanese novelist active in Taishō and Showa period of Japan. She was one of modern Japan's most commercially successful and prolific writers, specializing in serialized romance novels and adolescent girls’ fiction, as well as a pioneer in Japanese lesbian literature, including the Class S genre. Several of her stories have been made into films.
So it is that the sadness of those who love their own sex and therefore cannot live their lives in the form of a conventional marriage is redoubled by the chagrin of parents (for whom marriage represents the sole pinnacle of womanly achievement) and the opprobrium and scorn of everyone else.