Katsushiro Stories

A Lotus flower has so many meaning to it in different cultures around the world but to be Ever compared to one I think not. Join Mei on her Journey from the dirtiest of Roots in the water to reach to become the most beautiful flower to Prove People Wrong that she can do The impossible to help Save her Village

Chidori's duties are clear; what is not so clear is how she can fulfill her duty to her father as well as her duty to her new husband, when those duties conflict. Submission for the 2013 spring Historical Fiction Smackdown For this round, we had to select three pictures out of a total of nine, and a quote from the "Tale of Genji" Words: 4017 PIctures: # 3 (Post riders at the Village of Sekiya at the Sumida River), # 6 (boy viewing Mt Fuji), # 9 (Ejiri in the Suruga Province), all by Hokusai. Quotation: # 3. “So heavy the burden I bring with me from the past, I doubt that I should make these vows for the future.”