At first, look at the pictures below. The room where we were in the pictures was named after the well-known novel, Bocchan, which I'm going to tell you about later. This building is built of wood and is a three-layer structure. It was constructed before World War 2. Mr. Soseki Natsume, whom I wrote about in the previous entry, loved to spend time in this corner room with north and west facing windows. He might have been plotting his novel here. "Bocchan" means a boy from an upper crust family. I thought one of our guests must be a Colombian "Bocchan" judging from his sophisticated way of talking. To tell the truth, I wanted to tell him that Bocchan was just like him, but I didn't. I was afraid not to be able to continue the following story in English. Mr. Natsume appeared to write the work getting a hint from his real life in Matsuyama.
Bocchan lives his lively life here in Matsuyama and always sides with the weak and crushes the strong. The story is really piquant. When you talk about Matsuyama City, you never avoid referring to Bocchan and Mr. Soseki Natsume.
I wanted to take pictures in which both this room and our guests were shot at once, and I went out of the building a few minutes earlier. I'm very happy to have shot these pictures.
See also this entry.
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