Round 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 family give each other shots when they feel “short on ‘B.’” (15[1])A woman in 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 and turn off their flashlights during a nighttime (*) hunt for fireflies. A photographer (10[1])who later dies of gangrene saves a member of this family from a flood (10[1])at her sewing school and uses (10[1])his Leica to photograph (-5[1])her dolls. A quiet woman in this family is put through several miai, or matchmaking interviews, in Tokyo and Osaka. For 10 points, Tsuruko, Sachiko, Yukiko, and Taeko are the title sisters of what family in a Junichiro Tanizaki novel? ■END■ (10[1])

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