Her hobby is haiku-writing, and it was in a haiku-writing club where she had met Tomoko.īorn in 1952, Matsuzaka Keiko was given the opportunity to concurrently learn various arts from a young age by her parents, who wished for her to 'become a beautiful lady like Ingrid Bergman.' In 1960 she joined the Kurumi Children's Choir. Then one day she sees news coverage of a senior-aged man who had committed shoplifting for the purpose of going to prison, and finding attraction in spending her own remaining life in prison, she begins her 'prison challenge.' She clumsily but intently schemes criminal plans, and gets various people around her involved in her endeavors. With no caretakers and little money in the bank, she leads days of desolation. When her best friend Miyazaki Tomoko dies after living together for three years, she falls into despair. Witnessing years of the Hashimotos’ injustice, Kiriko vowed to restore peace to her town.The main character. From Tokyo, Toshiro supported Kiriko’s feelings and fed intel to Asa through handwritten letters. But by the time beloved grandmother passed away, Kiriko had caught on to her parents’ predicament, and to the spreading pain the Hashimoto were inflicting on Kanezaka. Under her grandmother’s care, Kiriko forged a close and lasting connection to the fox spirit, serving as a shrine maiden. To protect her daughter, she sent Kiriko to her grandmother and changed her family name to Kamori-Asa’s given name. Alone and with her hands tied, Asa was unable to fight back. The Hashimoto recognized the potential threat posed by Kiriko’s family and acted quickly, kidnapping Kiriko’s father and forcing him to supply weapons for their clan. As rumors raged in Hanamura and Kanezaka regarding the supposed demise of Genji and flight of Hanzo, the Hashimoto took over. When she was twelve years old, the head of the clan, Sojiro Shimada, was assassinated by the rival Hashimoto clan.

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