Japan is changing at a dizzying pace. The old world of the samurai is fading before the arrival of Victorian dresses, steam trains, and Western customs.
As a daughter of the prestigious Matsudaira aristocratic family (Kazoku class), your fate has already been decided: you will marry the influential Count Ryuichi Shinohara in a month, a young military officer in favor of modernization.
Will you embrace the new role of the modern woman in high society, cling to the ancient traditions of imperial protocol, or seek an elusive path to your personal freedom?
