But now I am going to die -the gods know what is best for us. "Nagao-Sama, my betrothed, we were promised to each other from the time of our childhood and we were to have been married at the end of this year. When she became aware that she must die, she sent for Nagao to bid him farewell.Īs he knelt at her bedside, she said to him:. But the health of O-Tei proved to be weak and in her fifteenth year she was attacked by a fatal consumption. At an early age he had been betrothed to a girl called O-Tei, the daughter of one of his father's friends and both families had agreed that the wedding should take place as soon as Nagao had finished his studies. Nagao was the son of a physician, and was educated for his father's profession. A long time ago, in the town of Niigata, in the province of Echizen, there lived a man called Nagao Chōsei.
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