Postscript

Postscript

 

 

Cherry blossom season has arrived. At this time of year, you just want to stop what you’re doing and gaze up at them for hours. How have you all been spending this glorious spring? This is Venio Tachibana, who just fantastically destroyed the laptop she’d been using since the middle of this book.

This book is, obviously, about a brothel. My editor suggested that I write something set in the pleasure quarters, and I actually found it very interesting to write something so Japanese. At the same time, while I was writing, the descriptions of bright cities made me so wistful... We always want what we can’t have, I suppose.

And pleasure quarters mean kimonos. And in the Meiji era, Western clothes. Tooko Miyagi gave us some gorgeous illustrations showing the contrast between East and West. I always thought of these places as very visually beautiful, and the illustrations only cemented that for me. I forced a lot of immoral demands on Ms. Miyagi, but despite it all she delivered a gorgeous level of detail in her drawings for the book. So I’ll take this opportunity to thank her copiously, and to apologize. And also to everyone who helped out in so many ways, most of all my editor, thank you!

And to all of you who are reading my postscript: we’ve reached the end, but thank you so much for choosing this book.

I may be getting a little ahead of myself, but we have loose plans next year to publish another story linked to this one, so perhaps we’ll meet again sometime. I hope so. Goodbye for now.

 

Venio Tachibana