Meiji Girls Tomioka Seishi Jo De Seishun Wo

[Machine Translation] It was soon after the transition from the Edo period to the Meiji period. Ei, a daughter of the Yokota family, a middle-class samurai of the Matsudai clan, was perplexed. She was faced with a marriage proposal, but she had faint feelings for her childhood friend of a different status. On the other hand, Ei's father, who is the mayor of the district, is also perplexed. He needs to recruit women workers for the newest silk mill to be built in Tomioka. When Ei hears about this, he says in order to postpone his marriage proposal, "I am going to work at the Tomioka Silk Mill. I think I will go to the Tomioka Silk Mill. The first long trip, living together, and working together. A fresh record of the adolescence of the girls who lived in that time and place. The first attempt at a novel by a popular screenwriter.

江戸から明治に時代が移ってすぐのこと。松代藩の中級武士だった横田家の娘・英は困惑していた。降って湧いた縁談を前に、身分違いの幼なじみへの淡い想いが、胸にある。一方、区長を務める英の父もまた、困惑していた。富岡にできる最新の製糸場のため、工女を集めねばならないのだ。その話を聞いた英は、縁談を先延ばしにするために、つい言ってしまう。「わたし、富岡製糸場に参ろうと思います」そして英の言葉をきっかけに、少女たちが集まって...。初めての長旅、共同生活、そして仕事。あの時代、あの場所で生きた少女たちの、瑞々しい青春記録。人気脚本家、小説初挑戦作。