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CHAPTER 12: THE CONFESSION UNDER THE PERSIMMON TREE
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The Sakura Between Us CHAPTER 38: THE AUTUMN SHIZI TURNED EIGHT AND THE FULL CHAIR THAT LOOKED EMPTY TAUGHT EVERYONE HOW TO LEAVE WITHOUT LEAVING
THE SAKURA BETWEEN USCHAPTER 38: THE AUTUMN SHIZI TURNED EIGHT AND THE FULL CHAIR THAT LOOKED EMPTY TAUGHT EVERYONE HOW TO LEAVE WITHOUT LEAVINGAt eight, Shizi learned that a forest could become too full.Not because the trees had stopped growing.Because too many people had begun gathering beneath them.By October 10, Double Ten again, three trees had become five.The first was the persimmon tree.It was now 108 years old.Its hollow had almost disappeared. The teeth that had once rested inside it were no longer sitting in an opening. The trunk had grown around them, swallowing their little shapes into the wood.Tanaka had counted 132 teeth the previous year.Fifteen new teeth had been added since then.The total was 147.“One hundred and forty-seven,” Tanaka announced, checking his notebook. “The tree has more teeth than some families have relatives.”Shizi examined the trunk.“Does it have a mouth?”“No.”“Then how does it keep the teeth?”Tanaka looked at the tree.“I have stopp
The Sakura Between Us CHAPTER 37: THE AUTUMN SHIZI WAS SEVEN AND THE FOREST HAD THREE TREES AND ONE CHAIR THAT WAS NO LONGER EMPTY
THE SAKURA BETWEEN USCHAPTER 37: THE AUTUMN SHIZI WAS SEVEN AND THE FOREST HAD THREE TREES AND ONE CHAIR THAT WAS NO LONGER EMPTYThe cloth shoe became a tree on the day Shizi was seven years and six months old.Not really.It became something that was not a tree but counted as one in Zhong House.October 10. Double Ten again.The persimmons were at their sweetest, and the courtyard had three trees now.The first was the persimmon tree.It was 107 years old. Its trunk had grown thicker, and its hollow was almost closed. The teeth that had once rested inside the opening were no longer visible in the same way. The tree had grown around them, drawing them into its wood until they seemed less like objects placed inside it and more like pieces of its own history.Tanaka had counted 102 teeth in March.During the summer, he and Professor Wang discovered eighteen older teeth caught in the deeper folds of the trunk. Another twelve had been added since then.The official count was now 132.Th
The Sakura Between Us CHAPTER 36: THE WINTER THE CLOTH SHOE DID NOT BECOME A TREE AND SHIZI LEARNED THAT SOME HOUSES WAIT LONGER
THE SAKURA BETWEEN USCHAPTER 36: THE WINTER THE CLOTH SHOE DID NOT BECOME A TREE AND SHIZI LEARNED THAT SOME HOUSES WAIT LONGERThe cloth shoe did not become a tree.Shizi waited.She had planted it on October 10, with her third lost tooth inside, on the western side of the persimmon tree.The geta tree stood to the east.The persimmon tree stood between them.A triangle.Ms. Liu had taught her that triangles were strong shapes. Mountains were triangles. Roofs were triangles. Even the little mountain-shaped rice cakes at Kyoto school had three sides.Therefore, Shizi believed the forest triangle would be strong.Every morning at five, she watered the cloth shoe.Sometimes with tea.Sometimes with water.Always with a greeting.“HOUSE! WAKE!”“GETA TREE, WAKE!”“CLOTH SHOE TREE, WAKE!”“YEHYEH, WAKE!”Sometimes she included the empty chair.“EMPTY CHAIR, WAKE!”The chair never answered.The cloth shoe did not answer either.October passed.The cloth shoe remained wet and muddy, with o
The Sakura Between Us CHAPTER 35: THE AUTUMN SHIZI BECAME SIX AND THE GETA TREE BORE A FRUIT THAT WAS NOT A PERSIMMON
THE SAKURA BETWEEN USCHAPTER 35: THE AUTUMN SHIZI BECAME SIX AND THE GETA TREE BORE A FRUIT THAT WAS NOT A PERSIMMONShizi turned six when both trees were awake.Not just the persimmon tree.That tree had been awake for 106 years. It had seen 96 teeth come and go into its hollow. It had watched Grandpa sit beneath it for eighty years before his chair became empty. This year, it had produced forty persimmons.More than last year’s thirty.Fewer than the year before’s fifty.Nobody complained.A 106-year-old tree did not owe anyone a particular number of fruits. It gave what it could.And this year, the forty persimmons were small, orange, and unusually sweet.But there was another tree now.The geta tree.It was seven months and seven days old on October 10. It had been planted on March 3, growing from the earth where the hundred-year-old geta had finally returned. The old shoes had produced forty-two mushrooms before becoming earth. One of Shizi’s teeth had been placed there, and Gra
The Sakura Between Us CHAPTER 34: THE SPRING GRANDPA WENT TO THE GETA TREE AND SHIZI LEARNED HOW TO KEEP A HOUSE WHEN ONE ROOM IS EMPTY
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The Sakura Between Us CHAPTER 33: THE WINTER SHIZI’S MUSHROOM GETA GREW INTO A TREE AND GRANDPA SAID IT’S TIME
THE SAKURA BETWEEN USCHAPTER 33: THE WINTER SHIZI’S MUSHROOM GETA GREW INTO A TREE AND GRANDPA SAID IT’S TIMEThe mushroom geta had three mushrooms in November.By December, it had seven.Then eleven.Then eighteen.By December 15, Tanaka had counted twenty-two.The geta rested on the roof of the wall-less house beneath the persimmon tree. It was an old wooden sandal, lacquered and decorated with a cloth thong. It had belonged to Keiko’s mother, who had given it to Shizi when she was one year old.The original plan had been to bury it.Let it rest.Let it become part of the earth.But the geta had other plans.It grew mushrooms.Chengdu’s winter was different from Kyoto’s. The snow was wet and heavy. It fell, covered the courtyard, and disappeared before anyone could finish taking photographs.The mushrooms, however, remained.Tanaka had added a new section to his population pillar.MUSHROOM RECORDDecember 1: 7 mushrooms.December 5: 11 mushrooms.December 10: 18 mushrooms.December
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