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![]() ![]() Only when Magistrate Shiroyama’s deputy defies his orders, allowing the doctor to utilize his forceps, is the bleakest outcome avoided. Amid the concubine’s labor, a celebration can be heard in surrounding Nagasaki, heralding the safe arrival of a ship in service of the Dutch East Indies Company, a closely controlled trading partner whose presence represents economic health for the greater community. For long moments, this appears to be an attempt to extract the stillborn son of a Magistrate, the shogun’s representative and therefore the supreme local power before whom all others bow. ![]()
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