Kaname

Kaname is the main character, and most of the story is told from his point of view. Kaname is married to Misako. Kaname loves the stimulation of new toys and new forms of entertainment, but he gets bored quickly and moves on to something else. In some ways, Kaname, who is wealthy enough that he shows up at his office about once a week, wants to live his life like a proper, old-fashioned Japanese gentleman of tastes. He enjoys going to the puppet theater with his father-in-law and eating good food out of expensive lacquer dishes while drinking hot sake and listening to a song played on the samisen, a traditional Japanese musical instrument. Kaname sees these things as the finer things in life and imagines how nice it would be if he could have his own doll-like mistress to wait on him. However, Kaname has been influenced...