Kichi's Marriage
The reason I ended up coming to America is my brother and Kagawa were friends. I didn't know Kagawa at all; my father had arranged my marriage to him. Personally, I wasn't willing to marry Kagawa, for I'd often seen him drunk. Later, my brother's eldest son told me in a letter that because I had no choice, my brother always felt guilty about agreeing to my marriage.
Before the wedding, I tied my hair up and wore on my face the white foundation makeup worn by kabuki actors and geisha. After the ceremony, when my mother and the mediator were about to leave, I prepared to leave with them. I was disappointed when they told me I couldn't go home with my mother anymore.
I got married on September the fifth. We left for Kobe after receiving our passports. We waited for our ship for about one month. Every night, we went out to Motomachi and ate delicious food, and I bought a leather jacket and dressed as they did in America. That month in Kobe became our honeymoon.
Before I left for America, I received as a present a book of Hai-ku poems. One of the poems was about the color of leaves in fall. The idea of the poem was that even though the leaves were beautiful, one strong wind could blow them down.