ABSTRACT
After years of underground intrigue and months of near-torture in his prison cell, the shock of freedom must have been almost too much to bear. There was no question, though, of a comfortable period of recuperation at home. The struggle had left the Tanakas heavily in debt, for one thing; and Shozo’s sentence of exile from the fief had for the time being to be obeyed, which added to the family’s difficulties.
