No.10
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LOCAL NEWS
Looking at life through architecture and fiction.
Tarumi Library 1st Anniversary Event
Yo Shimada × Makoto Toriyama
"From Architecture to Fiction: On Our Respective Callings"
Saturday, October 31, 13:30-14:30 talk / 14:30-15:00 book signing
Tarumi Library 4F, Tarumi-nato Room
Free, first 30 people
Applications: from Friday, October 23, 10:00, in person at the library or by phone.
Phone 078-709-7712
The author of "Toki no Ie," which portrays the memories of three generations living in one house, and the architect of the library talk about making and thinking.
Column by the Third Generation
Days of upkeep that keep the guesthouse going.
An old guesthouse run by my grandparents for nearly 60 years and carried on through three generations. Everywhere there are traces of repairs made with our own hands and things cared for and passed down.
My days run from reception, phone calls and looking after guests to cleaning, repairing antennas and installing security cameras. There is accounting, the booking system, website upkeep and cybersecurity, dealing with pests and vermin, and running errands for the neighbourhood association. Add watching over family and raising a child, and sometimes I am not sure what my trade is.
I used to work in video streaming, handling four cameras, the audio and the switcher on my own. Maybe that experience helps, because now I am something like a "digital jack-of-all-trades."
So much to do, I sigh, catching my breath. I want to keep valuing hands-on care and carry this guesthouse on, steadily and for a long time.
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