Secret Potion Purple Snow / Like the Wind

Tadakazu Yazaki killed his beloved wife.

Why did the army lieutenant kill Yukino, the beautiful wife of his best friend and childhood sweetheart?

The turbulent life and abnormal love of Sawako, a stage actress, are recounted in an unsolicited narrative.

Two mysterious novellas by a leading figure of Taisho Romanticism. Includes 106 illustrations.

What could have happened? That night, she (she) said with a resolute expression I had never seen before.

"You have said something irreversible. But I have already made up my mind. You are my husband. Now, do as you please." (From "The Secret Medicine of Shisetsu")

I became acquainted with a strange, wind-like woman. (...)That day, I was sitting at my usual corner table, enjoying my after-dinner cigarette. A stranger, a woman, was sitting in the opposite corner from me, staring intently at me. She wasn't particularly remarkable, but her eyes, which seemed to hold great anguish and were utterly helpless, were fixed on me. (From "Like the Wind")