Today is the first anniversary of my grandmother's passing.
I have so many memories of her. She was a very resourceful woman. She was very good at sewing, beading, knitting, cooking and so many other things.
I remember her always doing something.
今日、１０月３１日は大好きだったおばあちゃんの命日。彼女は一年前に亡くなった。
おばあちゃんといえば、和裁、ビーズや編み物、料理などをいとも簡単にやってのける本当に手の器用な人で、いつも何か作っていた事を覚えている。
Later in her life she made Japanese paper dolls. She knew how to make kimonos; that's why the dolls came out so beautiful, I thought.
晩年になってから、おばあちゃんは和紙を使った日本人形を作るようになった。着物を縫えるからうまいのだろう、と単純に考えていた私だが、いざ作ってみると、それだけではない、根気のいる本当に難しいことだということがわかった。
When I was about ten years old, my cousin and I tried to make one doll each as a special project during our summer break. I remember us struggling to make one doll.
Today, I visited the house where she had lived and took photographs of the dolls. My grandmother made hundreds of them. Each had a different expression.
It made me very happy to spend a day honoring what she had done. I'll love you forever, dear grandma!
今日、私はおばあちゃんが作った何百体もの人形のうちのいくつかの写真を撮ることができた。こうやって命日を過ごせた事をとても有り難く思います。
