Father’s Day

Thank you for reminding me my father. 

A dead body has to be cremated by law in Japan. On the day of my father’s funeral, my brother’s sons put their letters that were written by Japanese characters they just started to learn on my father’s body in the coffin. They are too small to understand about death. However, they picked up his bones to bury. 

The life is inherited.

My father often told my mother, my sister and me that boys are important to protect a family lineage and its grave.

My mother gave birth to a boy finally. My father was so happy and he told a baby: my brother about a successor every day. He was a kid yet. 

I was worried about if my baby would not be a boy. Miraculously, my brother was proudly relieved when his wife had a boy. 

My father’s dream came true and he  sleeps in the grave that he told us always. 

l think this is the reason l couldn’t talk to my father anything, however, there was love. l have no regrets. 

I’m sorry that I’m not sure about when l would visit my father’s grave. 

It’s because…