Yune

Yune is the young Japanese heroine of Croisee in a Foreign Labyrinth, who travels to late nineteenth-century Paris to work in a metalworking shop. She lives with Claude Claudel and learns French customs while sharing Japanese food, clothing, language, and values with the people around the Galerie du Roy.

Who Yune is in Croisee in a Foreign Labyrinth

Polite, hardworking, curious, patient, and homesick at times, Yune approaches cultural misunderstandings through observation and sincere effort. Her abilities are domestic work, traditional Japanese etiquette, language learning, sewing, cooking, and building trust across cultural differences.

Yune's powers, allies, and development

Claude becomes her protective older-brother-like companion, Oscar welcomes her to the shop, and Alice Blanche's fascination with Japan creates both friendship and comic tension.