How is there no long queue of suitors knocking on shizuko's door?

It's probably because back then, most men found talented women unattractive for some dumb reason

Good point. Wow... I'm flabbergasted. How dare they (╯°Д °)╯╧╧

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Maybe because they don't think woman should be the breadwinner / achieve more than her husband in the family, will hurt men 'pride'.

This and also because she's in a fairly important position despite the rank not being very high. Trying to marry her might come off as climbing ranks and this has never fared well in history. At least that's how it works in chinese history, but I'm not 100% sure if this applies to the japanese as well

That's interesting. I feel like this makes sense in some way

She lacks virtues of a yamato nadeshiko, although some men find her cute

Because Honda is chasing them away, I hope