Characters
Dies early in the book
Who is Mikage's Grandmother?
Mikage's great comfort in life
What is cooking? (What is a Kitchen is also acceptable).
This is what cooking is to Mikage
What is comfort?
Owns a gay bar
Who is Eriko Tanabe?
Yuichi's monk garden is obsessed with this food; Yuichi hates it.
What is tofu?
Has a shopping addiction
Who is Eriko Tanabe
This is what warms up Yuichi and Mikage's relationship on a cold night; a sort of catalyst for their possible romance.
What is Katsudon?
Eriko and Yuichi give this to Mikage. After her grandmother's death, Mikage thinks she will never get this again.
What is family?
Works at Mikage's grandmother's shop
Who is Yuichi?
Sotaro's height
What is very tall?
His mother dies.
Who is Yuichi Tanabe
This symbolizes Mikage's comfort, protection, and great reprieve from suffering (hint: it does not have to do with cooking).
What is the sofa?
What is escape?
Who is Mikage's grandmother?
What is soupy rice?
Inherits the gay nightclub
This symbolizes Mikage's loneliness. After her grandmother's death, she spends much of her time here.
Where is her refrigerator?
What cooking gives to Mikage that her life thoroughly lacks
What is control?
Works under Eriko at her Gay bar
Who is Chika?
What Eriko thinks is necessary to know what joy is, to evaluate where one is in life.
What is true despair?
Mikage's Ex-boyfriend
Who is Sotaro?
This symbol connects Mikage's life with the Tanabes with her old life with her grandmother.
What are flowers?
What both Mikage and Yuichi are trying to escape; what Mikage's house reeks of
What is loneliness?
Works with Mikage under Sensei
Who are Kuri and Nori?
Mikage watched this out the window as she listened to a bratty girl and her gentle grandmother interact on a bus.
What is a dirigible?