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.’” A woman in this family 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 who later dies of gangrene saves a member of this family from a flood at her sewing school and uses his Leica to photograph 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 (10[2])of what family in a Junichiro Tanizaki novel? ■END■

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