The Distant Journey

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The entry in the ledger is dated the fourth of April, 1542, in ink that has begun to fade at the edges: Takeshi Murata, debt of silence, status: pending erasure. The paper is thin, brittle as dried husks, and it smells of the damp that seeps into the walls of the machiya row, a cold, physical fact that presses against the skin like a wet cloth. Takeshi sits at the edge of the catwalk in the...

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