The protagonist implies that a remodeling project will virtually incarcerate his wife, looks forward to the completion of a pool at his home, and buys a suede handbag, a car, and a cat's-eye ring to bribe his love interest.
The protagonist implies that a remodeling project will virtually incarcerate his wife, looks forward to the completion of a pool at his home, and buys a suede handbag, a car, and a cat's-eye ring to bribe his love interest. The neuralgia in his left hand cannot be cured via spinal tap, and he feigns pain that distresses six-year-old Keisuke.  The protagonist schemes to have a woman's footprint appear in the form of the Buddha on his tomb, though she is also having an affair with Haruhisa, and anticipates and finally takes a trip to Kyoto to arrange his burial.  The protagonist's son Jokichi is married to that woman, Satsuko, who is seducing her 77-year-old father-in-law.  FTP, name this work centering on titular geriatric Tokusuke Utsugi, a novel by Junichiro Tanizaki.
The protagonist implies that a remodeling project will virtually incarcerate his wife, looks forward to the completion of a pool at his home, and buys a suede handbag, a car, and a cat's-eye ring to bribe his love interest.
{Diary of a Mad Old Man} or {Futen rojin nikki} (5) [AH]