Ribald Classic: The Wife And The Kappa
June, 1974
Murakami Tatsuko was 35 and barren, a fact that she blamed on her husband, Murakami Shinjo, samurai and medical man, who made love with his hands the way a snake swims through water, whose only shortcoming was the shortness of his comings. He could have used a third hand or an extra sword at those excruciating moments when ecstasy flagged like a primrose plucked and wilting under an August sun.Thus, it was a strange stirring that Tatsuko felt as she arose in the middle of her sleep with the urge...
