At the top of page 51 (left page), it is a photo taken outside the Yaguchi-no- Watashi Station in the Ota district of Tokyo in 1955, one summer day after the rain. The woman on the right hand side in the foreground of the image instantly captures our attention. She appears to be in her fifties but life was harder back then and people would look much older than their age. Her gaze to the back guides us to a younger woman in the centre. She would be around 25 and a young mother of the little girl next to her. She might be married when she was 16 something. Her full length cotton dress with tiny floral pattern is very suitable for a working class housewife to wear in hot summer as she needs to take care of household works. During a shopping trip, she scratches her back in a carefree manner, her movement turns into a historical moment.
第 51 頁(左頁)最上面的一幅圖，1955 年夏， 雨後的一天在東京大田區矢口渡火車站外。相中 右下方的婦人首先吸引我們的目光，她看來五十 多歲，不過當年生活艱難，真實年齡或許會較輕; 她回頭一望引領我們的視綫轉移到中央的少婦身 上。她可能年約 25 歲，是身旁小女孩的媽媽， 早在十六、七歲便結婚生子，現在該是個工人階 級家庭的全職主婦 ;她的綿質碎花長裙，最適合 炎夏中打理一切家務時穿著。就在購物途中，她 不經意地騷抓背脊，竟凝固於歷史一刻。