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Not being born into a Japanese family, I’ve always felt like I can’t really see how older people here live — how they spend their time, what they feel, what their days are like.
So when my friend and I were invited for coffee at the home of Kiyoko-san — a Japanese granny living in rural Tochigi Prefecture (about 1.5 hours from Tokyo)... See more
instagram.comMinna-no-kimochi (みんなのきもち) | Boiler Room Tokyo: Tohji Presents u-ha
youtube.comMakiko looked old. Everyone looks older as the years go by, but that’s not what I mean. She wasn’t even forty, but if she told you “I just turned fifty-three,” you’d wish her happy birthday. She didn’t look older. She literally looked old.
Mieko Kawakami, Sam Bett, • Breasts and Eggs
“She cackled again as she walked on. Perhaps she was a little mad, but then old women often are.” Diana Wynne Jones in Howl’s Moving Castle
