In spring, 20-year-old Natsumi receives a marriage proposal to Takiaki Masashi, who works for the Imperial Navy. Suddenly, she is married to a Navy husband. Their (fairly) inexperienced in house matters, as ...

In 1878, as the wave of Western culture spreads through Japan, in Nagasaki, Miyo, a girl orphaned in the Satsuma Rebellion works at a curio shop called Vingt. The dresses, sewing machines, binoculars, boots,...