Notes of an Itinerant Performer

Utas mother died when she was six years old her father she never met She was forced to adopt a travellers life when her grandmother died and now she is a dancer and part of a family of actors who travel from town to town setting up street performances A way of escape from this marginal existence arises when she gets the chance to move to tea merchant Hiramatsus place where she is asked to teach his daughter to dance