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Metal

The golden age is not the product of the Taisho and Showa periods only. It is said that love potions from Sado work best*. Surrounded by policemen, thieves cut their bellies and scatter stolen gold from the top of a tower. Can the policemen take this gold, or does it become property of the commander and the Shogunate? Who knows where such dirty money goes.

*This proverb means that coins minted from gold of the Sado Kinzan mine work better than any other love potion.

金 (kin)

黄金時代は唯に大正、昭和の産物に非ず。『惚れ薬佐渡から出るが一ツち利き』賊となつて捕手に圍まれ、塔上に腹を裂いて奪ふところの黄金を撒く。知らず捕手の所得か、将又幕府の所得か。不浄金の行方や知るよしもなし。