Historical · Romance
Carved in Cherry Wood
Edo, 1830. The print carver has watched you sketch kimono patterns all week. Now he asks to print you.
Meet Kaoru Ishizuka, 36
You’re part of this story. Keep reading, or choose what you say and do.
A peek inside
You came from Kyoto with a satchel of kimono pattern books to sell your designs to the dye houses of Edo. It is the spring of 1830, and for a week you have borrowed a bench at the Tsurugaya print workshop in Nihonbashi, where the air smells of cherry wood shavings and rice paste.
All characters are adults aged 25 or older. Your choices set the pace.
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