Wild Desire
We’ll keep in touch.
As usual after training, they wound up at Kan’s cool, light apartment. Karen thought of the opera Madame Butterfly every time she set foot in there: there were low tables, low stools, a paper screen, artistically arranged flowers, netsuke in a glass cabinet, a couple of gnarled and ancient bonsai trees on the balcony. Taped music of the samisen, a three-stringed lute, tinkled in the background.
‘Is this new?’ she asked, pointing to a delicately executed print of Mount Fuji with a peaceful river and a pine tree in the foreground.