Teacher Tatsumi Shimura

I heard that she was active during the Showa period as an illustrator and Japanese painter who portrayed dignified and beautiful women.

My mother's house was a small restaurant in Asakusa where cultural figures, entertainers, and athletes gathered.

I heard that Shimura sensei was one of them.

On New Year's Day just before my mother turned 17 years old

Was he gathering his regular customers together to give them a New Year's treat?

The Otome Shimada style, the mother-of-pearl striped obi with crest on the back and the Taiko knot on the back give a real sense of downtown chic.

Perhaps a familiar geisha helped her put it on.

"Ichie-chan, bring a brush, paper, and ink," she said, and sat my mother down in the corner of the banquet room. She then painted the picture in no time at all. Finally, she added some soy sauce from the tray to add color.

Although it has faded, this is a story about this painting that my mother told me when I was a child.

I got an old frame that looked good, so I replaced it.

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