Symbols
This symbol represents Mikage's love for food and the place she wants to see first when entering a home.
What is the kitchen?
This activity brings comfort to Mikage
What is cooking?
This motif is a big part of Mikage's Identity and is seen multiple times when she goes to restaurants
What is food?
After her grandmother dies, Mikage does this
Who moves in with Eriko and Yuichi?
This person is the main character of the novel
Who is Mikage?
This symbol demonstrates the caring atmosphere that was provided for Mikage when she stayed over at Eriko and Yuichi’s house.
What is the couch?
This allows for both Yuichi and Mikage to communicate during their long-distance travels
What are telephones?
This warm drink reminds Mikage of her grandmother
What is tea?
This person stabs and kills Eriko after finding out she was a man.
Who is the stalker/crazy man?
After the death of her grandmother, Mikage moves in with these two characters
Who are Eriko and Yuichi?
This symbol represents the necessity of making the most out of what you have.
What is the juicer?
Mikage and Yuichi express this towards each other.
What is love?
Mikage feels nostalgia through these
What are Flashbacks?
Yuichi calls Mikage from this city
What is Tokyo?
This character gives Mikage the location of Yuichi’s inn and worked with Eriko.
Who is Chika?
This symbolizes Eriko’s grief and a turning point in Yuichi’s life.
What is the pineapple?
A way Eriko remembers her wife What is Nature?
What is Nature?
Mikage goes here to reflect on her life in the past.
What is her old Apartment?
Mikage brought this food to Yuichi’s inn.
What is Katsudon?
This person is Mikage’s ex-boyfriend
Who is Sotoro?
This symbol represents Mikage's journey to self-discovery and how other characters would be lost without it.
What is the lighthouse?
Okuno lets out her pent-up aggression on Mikage due to her strong feelings about this.
What is jealousy?
This place represents Eriko’s self-expression and gives her a sense of identity and belonging.
What is the club?
In Mikage’s dream, the floor was this color.
What is yellow-green?
This person confronts Mikage and claims to be Yuichi’s girlfriend
Who is Okuno?