What Kanji startles Otoko so much? As I was fighting through the first page of Chapter 7 of _Beauty and Sadness_ (see Dramatis Personae of Beauty and Sadness), I stumbled upon a sentence that is hard to understand. Since I read it in German, I do a self-translation to English here: > One day, Otoko wanted to write a letter, she opened the "lexicon of the Japanese language"1, and her eyes fell upon the Kanji for "thinking". As she read the other meanings of this Kanji like "to long for", "not being able to forget", "being sad", she felt, that her heart cramped. Now, my Japanese is poor, but I would really like to know which Kanji it was that made her feel so bad and remember her of her affair with Oki. 1 - a Kanji-dictionary I believe

As someone currently in possession of a Japanese-language edition of , I can confirm that the relevant kanji is **** (omo). The section reads:

> ****

Here's a picture of the page with the kanji highlighted:

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