This small, old piece of paper is an offcut of the paper for the sliding doors in Japanese houses.

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I remember my mother pasting new sheets of paper on all the sliding doors in the house before the New Year Holidays.  And seeing her do that, I used to imagine myself doing the same thing as a grown-up woman.

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However, in the first place, there are no sliding doors left in my house now.

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Autumn butterfly/

Went inside the/

Four-o’clock flowers/

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Translation and calligraphy by Chio

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