What was more amazing was the school itself. At Tomoe Gakuen, there gate consisted of two poles with leaves and twigs still on them. At her previous school, as with most schools in Japan, the gates would be made of concrete pillars with a plaque of the name of the school on it. The first thing that caught her eye was the gates of the school. The school itself was unusual and when Totto-chan saw it for the first time she couldn’t believe her eyes. Fancy being expelled from the first grade!” The reason why her mother was so worried was “although Totto-chan had only just started school, she had already been expelled. Kuroyanagi starts off her semi-memoir with the memory of being taken to a new school with her mother not realizing how worried her mother was. What at first seemed like happy childhood memories turned out to be valuable life lessons. For Kuroyanagi, whose nickname was Totto-chan as child, it wasn’t until she reached adulthood that she understood the lessons that were taught by Kobayashi at Tomoe. The story is told in the third person: however, it is not only the story of her elementary school years, but also focuses on her teacher, Sosaku Kobayashi. The story is about her first two years at an elementary school called Tomoe Gakuen which was established in 1937 but was burned down in 1945 at the end of the Second World War. This is an autobiographical account of Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, one of Japan’s most popular television talk show hosts.
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