Nori Watanabe
Mr. Isaku Ozaki is proud of his grandfather Koyo, who was a famous novelist in the Meiji Period. But he knew very little about his great-grandfather Kokusai until ten years ago. Koyo was apparently ashamed of his father being a jester as well as a carver, so he told almost nothing about Kokusai, not only to his friends and acquaintances but even to his children as well. Koyo’s wife Kiku, born as a daughter of a medical doctor and raisd in a rigorous and disciplined family, also did not like her eccentric father-in-law. She looked after her grandson Isaku and other grandchildren after their father had passed away very young at the age of thirty-six. Mr. Ozaki says he does not remember that his grandmother even mentioned the name of Kokusai to him.
