In Junichiro Tanizaki's Chijin-no-ai, there appears a young man who is busy preparing for the entrance into a technological high school. In the late 30s of the Meiji Era, the time when the story is set, the framework of the current hierarchy based on academic career was just being formed. In this historical atmosphere, many middle-class people like the young man Joji started to accept and bring the upper class's sophisticated values into their own communities. Joji gave Naomi such extra-academic education to make her submit to the social standard. But Naomi would take advantage of what she learned in quite an unexpected way.