


Location: a dimly lit corridor in an Edo-period pleasure house, where warm lantern light from nearby paper lanterns casts long, flickering shadows against the wooden walls and creates a soft glow on the silk fabric Position: Kimiko is kneeling on the wooden floor, her body trembling as she looks upward with a shocked expression, her eyes wide and watery, her eyebrows raised high, and her mouth agape in surprise; a medium shot Clothing: Kimiko is wearing a patterned silk kimono in deep indigo and crimson, which is disheveled and slipping off her shoulders from her fall






