Ozu City and Amazing Encounter

　　One of my staff members will get married to a guy living in another city next month, so she will quit her job in my office. She is so efficient at the office job that I'm sorry to let her go, but she is naturally happy. We planned a small party for her near her home, in the heart of Ozu City.
　　The district in which my office is located belongs to Ozu City, but I live in Matsuyama City and I am not familiar with Ozu City, so I took a walk around the party location to get to know the city for some time. Several pictures I took in Ozu City will be shown below.
　　Ozu City is a castle town and I wondered how many old streets and houses have remained unchanged since my childhood. I felt as if I had stepped into the times of my childhood. I felt something nostalgic about the atmosphere of the alleys.
　　I happened to find a small cheap information board in front of a shabby parking lot. Summing it up, the board reads about two brothers, who had been born in Ozu City about 200 years ago, along with their achievements. What surprised me was that I had written about the younger one long ago and had admired him in my entry (link). However, I didn't know his name and I knew him only by his achievement. I learned his name and his birthplace for the first time then.

(Vocabulary)
alley (alleyway とも) 路地, 裏通り

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