A fake marriage to a bigamist policeman causes one character to become, despite her innocence, the kept woman of Suezo, though she loses all desire for him when she learns that he is a usurer and that he is already married as well.
One character in this work, Otsune, obsesses on the parasol she sees another woman with, despite her earlier joy at receiving a similar one from her husband. This novel's narrator describes mackerel boiled in bean paste as pivotal to the story like a peg that always breaks in a cart, as it drives him to take a stroll with his neighbor and learn that the latter will translate medical texts into German instead of graduating. Late in this novel, the narrator's neighbor kills a snake which had snuck into a bird cage for a woman, which allows them to talk for the first time. A fake marriage to a bigamist policeman causes one character to become, despite her innocence, the kept woman of Suezo, though she loses all desire for him when she learns that he is a usurer and that he is already married as well. Otama falls in love with the student Okada, but she can never reveal her love for him after he kills one of the title animals on his last night in Japan with Ishihara. For 10 points, name this novel by Mori Ogai, named for an untamed bird. 
One character in this work, Otsune, obsesses on the parasol she sees another woman with, despite her earlier joy at receiving a similar one from her husband.
The Wild Geese [or The Wild Goose or Gan] 