(W) Kyouka Izumi (A) Honojirotowoji The Maiden's Bookshelf series continues with this eerie classic from the great Izumi Kyoka. 'But you couldn't have known!' A mysterious encounter in the surgery room leads back down the paths of memory, after a young woman refuses anaesthetic to protect her secret... Izumi Kyoka's 1895 classic is a mysterious, wrenching tale of doomed love.