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She had certainly damaged the man initially, but now she seemed to wound him doubly. It was quite another, however, to connive with the crowd, to present oneself as a figure of vulgar terror, and then as one of common fun. To have unintentionally killed a lover in a moment of passion, to have rescued from the catastrophe, in a moment of panic, an object that one, childlike, had loved-that was one thing. I did, and I also wondered about her and the turn her story had taken. She seemed to be thinking about something, perhaps wondering if I too knew her story. She then moved off to another table, glancing back at me from time to time. Hello there, you back again? You like this place here, eh? she asked, looking down at me and adding: Nothing but the best here, boys. There was a consequent frisson when Sada AbГ© slapped your back. Unlike many, however, she had actually choked a man to death and then cut off his member. Like many a pub woman, she became manly, just one of the boys. It was a cordial, welcoming smile, and it accompanied her as she went about pouring drinks and slapping backs. Then, and only then, as though she had received the homage she desired, did Sada AbГ© smile. And she might, they perhaps thought, be capable of doing the whole thing all over again. She had written a book about her exploits. Perhaps they were, for this woman was a creature already legendary. Some of the men hunched lower, as though truly frightened. There, in the growing hush, she would stand and glare. And it was these that she also acknowledged by pretending wrath.ДЄt the bottom of the stairs, she would stop and rake the room with her blazing gaze. It was these events to which her customers now, two decades later, referred by hiding their own penises and snickering. And he was dead because the two had discovered that if she squeezed his neck hard enough his weary member achieved new life, but one day she squeezed too hard and killed him. Twenty years before, she had cut off her loverвЂ™s penis. This pantomime was occasioned by the nature of Sada AbГ©вЂ™s crime. She slapped the banister in her wrath, and merriment rippled. Above, the descending Sada AbГ© would mime fury, casting burning glances at those below who squeezed and giggled the more. Fingers squeezed tight, they would then turn and snicker. They invariably placed their hands over their privates. Ostensibly, it was provoked by the actions of the men below. And as she did so, progressing slowly, indignation was expressed. In any event, the descent was dramatic, with many pauses as she stared at her guests below, turning a brief gaze on this one and that. Others said that the staircase went nowhere at all, that she had to clamber up it from the back before she could arrive in public.

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Some said that her lair was up there on the second floor, full of old photographs and overstuffed furniture. Always in bright kimono, one redolent of the time of her crime, early Showa, 1936, Sada AbГ© would appear at the head of the stairs, stop, survey the crowd below, and then slowly descend.ДЇrom where, no one ever knew. She descended the staircase-itself a large affair that ended right in the middle of the customers. And every night around ten, Sada AbГ© would make her entrance. There, every night, workers of the neighborhood-for it was a taishu-sakaba, a workingmanвЂ™s pub-would gather to drink sake and shochu and nibble grilled squid and pickled radish. They appear here with the authorвЂ™s permission.ДЄfter the war, released from prison, she got herself a job in Inari-cho, in downtown Tokyo: at the Hoshi-Kiku-Sui-the Star-Chrysanthemum-Water-a pub. These profiles of the real-life Sada AbГ© and the actress who portrayed her in Nagisa OshimaвЂ™s In the Realm of the Senses first appeared in Donald RichieвЂ™s 1987 book Different People: Pictures of Some Japanese, and can also be found in the 2006 Japanese Portraits: Pictures of Different People.

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