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Sinric lead Hannibal out of a doorway and into the warm light of spring afternoon. He cranes to look up, following the line of the wall and the buildings. "We're in the right place. The bath should be just through there."

He points to a alley that leads out the road and the grand entrance to the bath houses. "It is small by some standards. Only large enough for thirty or forty people. Many of the greater baths have closed for the cost to keep them is very high and many wealthy households have smaller bathes of their own."

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Hannibal looks around and takes a few deep breaths before answering. "Yes, that is a problem for the traditional sentô public baths in Japan in my time as well," he says. "Interesting to find it here. And smaller means more intimate -- less risk of running into anybody who does know you after all."