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There is a saying in Japanese: three cold days, four warm days. As warm days after cold days, and again warm days, again cold days, the weather gradually gets warmer and the seasons change. As the weather gets warmer after the beginning of spring, Japanese people get excited about cherry blossoms. Since Japanese clothing is seasonal, people often wear patterns that are appropriate for the season, but cherry blossom patterns are acceptable to wear (and tie with an obi) all ye

When I was in elementary school—almost forty years ago now—I went to a local public school. Some children lived in large houses, others in small ones; that was simply how it was. There was one family in particular, a well-known and respected household in the neighborhood. Their home stood on a large piece of land, with two buildings in the garden. One was where the grandmother lived, and the other was the house where my friend lived with her parents—the house we children were