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MIKU YASUHIRA 90510085
MZ. KOTANI, HISAKO
Mz. Kotani is a graceful lady who lives in the 8th floor of same apartment as me. She is friend of my mother, and her computer lessonʼs students. Iʼve heard about her since she started her lesson, and then the first impression I got about her is “energetic” and “lively” woman according to what my mother told me about her. I always wondered how old she is and what she does to keep her look young. What I found is that she is currently (in 2009) 78 years old, and has been in Thailand for many years. She has two sons and grand son who stay in Japan. She always goes to park near our apartment, and walk around , then Taichi (Chinese form of physical exercise) and another kind of Chinese physical exercise. Also she learns piano, and as mentioned, computer. In addition, she can write beautiful calligraphy, flower arrangement, and ceramic. I believe the secret of her is to be busy everyday and have fun with friends. She can speak Thai also, so she has a lot of Thai friends.
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She reminds me of my grandmother since she is the same kind of “energetic grandmother” as Mz. Kotani. By taking photographs of her, and knowing what she does, I wonder if I can be like her in age of 78 since we live in the same world, but in different environment. It seems very far away from now, but I have to remind myself about her when I reach to her age.
ENDEAVOR EFFORT TRY HARD WORK PATIENCE RESULT The reason why she learns computer is to have communication with others like her grandson, and her friends. And she learns piano to avoid senility, since playing piano moves finger a lot. She says itʼs good exercise for finger and brain. Probably, learning those “modern technology” and the musical instrument may keep her young not only in appearance.
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ANTI-AGING AGAINST VERSUS OPPOSE FIGHT The titile is just to tell that she doesnʼt want to be looked as in her age since she tries very hard to donʼt get old. Thus, in my view point, she is fighting against her age everyday. Everytime she moves her hands, her marriage ring shines and I thought itʼs beautiful, with her grandmotherʼs hands with piano playing with both hands.
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OFFICE AGENCY SERVICE BUSINESS WORK I was asked to go in to a room, which had three sofa and table between them, and piano at the side, and a table wor her laptop. Also there is bookshelf next to the piano. On her table for the laptop, there are calendars, pens, ďŹ les, papers, and some decorative displays. In this view point, she looks like a business woman.
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ONE ACE HALF SELF SINGLE When she plays piano, she turns on the stand light, and unconsciously, she moves her back like she is dancing. She usually uses her headphone so no one can hear her music. This picture is to show that she is lonely, since she is a widow, but she enjoys her life by herself, and with her friends in Thailand.
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CLASSIC EXEMPLARY TRUE FIRST IMPRESSION Usually, the image that comes in my mind when I hear a word “grandmother” is calligraphy. Almost all the senior citizens in Japan can write calligraphy, and they write very beautiful. By looking at her ring, itʼs Mz. Kotani, and her grandmotherʼs hands and the brush of calligraphy fits together. In this picture, Mz. Kotani is doing the *hand-copying of a sutra. The right hand side words are the sutraʼs writing and the left writing with brush is her writing.
*hand copying of a sutra: the hand writing copy of the Buddhismʼs book
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REGULAR CONSTANT SET SOCIETY ROUTINE The lady in the middle is Mz. Kotani, and the women walking at her sides are her grandmother friends. They are the regular member of meeting in the park and walk around the park together for one time. They talk about the organizations they are involved in, and when they ďŹ nish walking around the road for one time, they seperate and do whatever they want to do.
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ATHLETE HALF TIME WATER BREAK After she finished her Taichi exercise, she drinks water which she brings by herself. She looks like an athlete, and thinking what to do for the next half. Again, itʼs hard to believe that she is seventy-eight years old.
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“COME ON” KUNG-FU 3 VS 1 This is when she was doing Taichi exercise with her Chinese friends, but this picture seems like she is fighting against three people, and saying “come on!!”, then in a moment, she would K.O the other three people.
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VIVACIOUS LIVELY IDEAL SEVENTYEIGHT In Taichi exercise, there are three parts that they do; usual movement without anything, with sword and with folding fan. First, everyone does the normal exercise, and they seperate in two groups later. She works on her sword. Once I saw her showing her Taichi sword dance (pausing) in Japanese festival on stage. She doesn始t scary, she looks strong and the pause is cool.
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