事情发生在大正年代初期的一年。那座面临日本海的小镇,东面群山绵亘,栉比鳞次的房屋沿着一道河流细而长地自南向北延伸着。河在镇子尽头处注入日本海,因而朝阳升得晚,早晨迟迟不见天亮,是这个镇子的特点。小学五年级的学生菊枝,每天早晨在这样暗蓝的天色中打扫房前的地面已经形成习惯。菊枝家里开绸缎庄。她正紧握扫帚把儿,把粘在泥地上的碎画片儿扫起来,这时侯,响起了咯吱咯吱的皮鞋声。只见一个潇洒地穿着立领制服的青年从她面前走 It happened in the early years of the Taisho era. The town facing the Sea of ​​Japan, east of the hills, row upon row of houses along a river extending from south to north. The river was injected into the Sea of ​​Japan at the very end of the town, and as a result the sunrise was late and the dawn of dawn was not seen in the morning, a feature of this town. Primary fifth grade students Chrysanthemum branches, every morning in such a dark blue sky in front of the ground has become a habit. Chrysanthemum branch silk dunhuang Chuang. She was holding the broomstick and sweeping up the pieces of clay stuck in the mud, when the squeaky shoes sounded. I saw a smartly dressed uniformed youth stand in front of her