| After a posting to the northern provinces, Akitada hurries to the deathbed of his mother in the capital. On the road, he spends the night in a monastery where he sees a painted hell screen.The realistic depictions of tortured men, women, and children haunt his dreams until he wakes to a scream.At home, he finds his mother sick and vindictive, and his sisters troubled by personal dilemmas.He is asked to clear his brother-in-law’s name in a theft, and his younger sister’s lover of a… |
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