"Sachiko sensed that much of her sister's love for Osaka was in fact love for the house, and, for all her amusement at these old-fashioned ways, she felt a twinge of pain herself - she would no longer be able to go back to the old family house. She had often enough joined Yukiko and Taeko in complaining about it - surely there was no darker and more unhygienic house in the world, and they could not understand what made her sister live there, and they felt thoroughly depressed after three days there, and so on - and yet a deep undefinable sorrow came over Sachiko at the news. To lose the Osaka house would be to lose her very roots".
From The Makioka Sisters, by Junichiro Tanizaki.
