Fuji Diary
by Dt
About This Novel
At the end of 1963, the Takeda family built a mountain hut at the foot of Mount Fuji. From the late spring of the next year, 1964, the family began to travel between Tokyo and the mountains, buying furniture and supplies, improving the interior of the mountain hut, and also going to villages, lakes and Mount Fuji at the foot of the mountain. During the thirteen years from July 1964 to September 1976, they spent several months here every year. Writing a diary was originally suggested by her husband Takeda Taijun. Whenever he came to the mountains, he would "take turns taking notes". He and his daughter Takeda Hana also wrote a few entries, but most of them were Takeda Yuriko's records. In October 1976, her husband Takeda Taijun died of illness. This thirteen-year life diary was officially published as a book in 1977 after being serialized in a magazine. Every day, sunshine, rain and snow, three meals a day, daily routines in the neighborhood, and natural scenery, Yuriko Takeda recorded them one by one in straightforward, simple and energetic words. She had never thought of writing, but she started writing for the first time after becoming a housewife. Her words were natural and unpretentious. The distant Showa years are like a long scroll of human fireworks, slowly unfolding under her pen.
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