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Mourning
The wife is sad that the merchant left and is still not back, she is not sure what to do without him. -
Waiting for his return
The wife is anxiously waiting for her husband to come back home. So they can finally be together again. She has written him a letter saying to meet her at Cho-fu-Sa which is hundreds of miles away from Chokan. -
The TRIP
When she was 16, the merchant left for a trip to Ku-to-en to go sell some goods, she had been waiting for him for for 5 months. -
The marriage
The speaker married the merchant at the age of 14, she was very bashful and quiet, at first she wasn't very happy with the marriage -
Settling in
She stopped scowling and she was happy being with the merchant and she loved him, and he loved her. She wanted to grow old and die with him -
Kids playing
The kids met by the front gate, the girl was picking flowers while the merchant was playing horse with bamboo stilts and also blue plums.
