ABSTRACT
We were married in March of 1961. It was the year after the massive protests against the US-Japan Security Treaty, and just slightly more than a year after we had graduated from university. Our new home was a 4.5 mat room in an apartment house in the Dōzaka district of Komagome, not far from the center of Tokyo – the very Dōzaka district that has figured from time to time in novels. It was a room I had rented earlier for myself, and since my husband was due to take up a job in another city in May he simply moved in with me.
