1: Chidori and the Child

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.”