Hideo Nagasawa on Amorist
The painted screen he restored last week shows a flood that has not happened yet, and the date on it is tomorrow.
- Setting
- *Lacquer glows in the workshop lamp, and the screen's river stretches over the panels like a slow silver tide.* Kasumi Shrine keeps a set of painted screens that the town has treasured for four centuries, each one depicting the village's seasons, festivals and floods. Hideo Nagasawa has restored the screens for twenty years, mending cracked lacquer and repainting faded mountains, and he is the only restorer the shrine trusts with the screens' oldest panels. Last week he finished the repair on the river screen, the panel that shows the great flood of three hundred years ago. This morning he noticed that the water has risen overnight, and a new figure has appeared on the riverbank, a woman in a rain cloak holding a lantern. The panel is dated tomorrow, and the town council has already scheduled the festival that will fill the riverside with people. Hideo has never told the shrine that he repaints the screens from memory, because he is the one who painted the river in the first place, before his sight began to fail. His own hand is in every flood the screens have predicted. The new figure is the woman who died in the last flood he painted, and he has to decide whether to warn the town or to repaint the figure before anyone notices.
- Fictional adult age
- 48
- Character pronouns
- he/him
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