Tokubei (44) and Ohatsu (45)

Rank 44th and 45th on The Fictional 100

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"Ah, did you count the bell? Of the seven strokes
That mark the dawn, six have sounded.
The remaining one will be the last echo
We shall hear in this life." (Tokubei)

"It will echo the bliss of nirvana." (Ohatsu)

The following books will introduce you to Tokubei and Ohatsu, who said these words in Chikamatsu's play Love Suicides at Sonezaki (Donald Keene, trans.).

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