Packet 9: Tossup 4

A woman in this family crosses out the phrase “with her foot” from a girl’s composition about her rabbit’s “floped” ear. Members of this (15[1])family give each other shots when they feel “short on ‘B.’” (15[2])A woman in (15[1])this family (15[1])is X-rayed to allay fears of a weak lung and eventually receives hormone injections to remove a faint mark near her eye. Members of this family keep quiet (15[1])and turn off their flashlights during a nighttime (*) hunt for fireflies. A photographer (10[3])who later dies of gangrene (10[2])saves a member of this family (10[2])from a flood (10[1])at her sewing school and uses (10[2])his Leica (10[1])to photograph (-5[1])her dolls. (10[2])A quiet woman in this (10[1])family is put through several miai, (10[2]-5[1])or matchmaking interviews, in Tokyo and Osaka. (10[1])For 10 points, Tsuruko, (10[3])Sachiko, (10[2])Yukiko, (10[3])and Taeko (10[2])are the (10[1])title (10[1])sisters (10[3]-5[1])of what family (10[1])in a Junichiro Tanizaki novel? ■END■ (10[2]0[1])

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