Nozawa brought A Qing back to Hosokawa Castle, first to "check the room," and looked at the status of the patient Maeda Rikyu, finding everything normal, at least no signs of fever. It seemed the surgery was successful and wouldn't delay him too long at Hosokawa Castle.
Since everything was fine, he exchanged a few words with Maeda Toshimasa and went to rest in the room allocated to him. The maids of the Hosokawa Family also brought dinner, being fairly hospitable to the guests.
After dining with A Qing, Nozawa took out all the books and read them carefully with the lamp lit.
Of course, the first task was to relearn characters, starting with kana.
Japanese kana was named in contrast to Chinese "true names." All simplified stroke or changed shapes of Chinese characters, used to render phonetic or semantic readings, are considered kana. Since they were mainly used by women, they were also called "female hand."
