The Life of Hiroshuke

Tsunano's reasons for accepting Hiroshuke again are not clear, she didn't leave a diary about this or anything like that explaining her inner thoughts on the subject. But one imagines that if nothing else a chance to go back to the big city was attractive to her. Regardless of her reasons she did say yes and finally returned to Edo to join Hiroshuke as part of the city magistrates household. Finally she had found security in the big city. She would live with Hiroshuke for the rest of her life,. even corresponding regularly with her elder brother, sending him gifts from Edo. In early 1853 she would take ill, dying on the 6th day of the 4