A poem written by the poet Saito Shi: "Old is old and the charm remains. This person has left, and flowers bloom and fall, and the fragrance remains withered in his hands."
It is said that every baby came to this world crying because it is destined that each of us will leave for a day, so we cry loudly.
So some people are ready to lie flat at the age of twenty. Some people are only fifty years old and are already lamenting that they are old.
But there is such a person who is still running hard even though he is already past his 80s.
She is still busy with work at the age of 71, is still busy with secret love at the age of 86, is still busy with publishing books at the age of 97, and is still busy preparing for the award speech at the age of 103.
106 when she was 6, the reporter asked her the secret to longevity, and she smiled and said: "I'm too busy and have no time to die!"
1.
1914, Sasamoto Hiroko was born in a family of kimono businessmen. She showed her keen observation skills at a young age.
When she was young, she often sat in her father's studio, watching the guests who were custom-made clothes. While observing the guests' expressions and behaviors, she also stumbled and commented on the guests' clothes and dresses, which often made the guests laugh.
Her keen observation gradually attracted the attention of her father. His father intentionally or unintentionally asked Hiroko Satoshi to see how he designed clothes and how to color the design draft. Gradually, under the influence of his father, Hiroko Satoshi also fell in love with art and tailor.
In Sabuki Hokuko's writing, the father's back, mother's smile, and the kitten at home have become the best materials for her sketching. Before I knew it, Sabukiko's understanding of art became deeper and deeper, and she also wanted to become a painter or writer.
However, in that era, it was still very difficult for Japanese women to choose a free life. Just when Sasamoto Hiroko was determined to become a painter, her family opposed it in unison.
Sasamoto's mother believes that she should enter the home affairs university, so that she can marry a good husband and become a virtuous man.
Sasamoto Hiroko's dream of painter was shattered. Under the opposition of her parents, Sasamoto Hiroko could only go to the Housekeeping University to study courses that she was not interested in at all.
Set Stephen Chow’s line in the movie: dreams always need to be there, what if they come true? If Hiroko Sabuki wants to be mediocre for such a lifetime, then it will not be Hiroko Sabuki.
Just after two years of school in a daze, Hiroko Sabuki went through the withdrawal procedures without telling her family, and re-entered the painting academy, realizing her dream of becoming a painter.
A sentence that Sasamoto often said at that time was: There is no reason for women to do what a man can do. Sabuki Hokuko's independent personality and practice have infected many female classmates around her. Let more women dare to break through the shackles of old traditions and live their own lives.
Sabuki Hokuko also met many good friends because of this, and she also made her an indissoluble bond with photography by chance.
When Sasamoto was working as a news illustrator in Tokyo Hiroshi, he bought a camera with his salary of half a year.
Because in the camera world, Sabumoto Hiroko found that with the "click" sound of the camera, the moment of excitement can be left behind. For Shigeko Sasamoto, who has studied art, this undoubtedly opened the door to another magical world.
Sasamoto Hiroko has since been determined to become a photographer.
In Japan at that time, not to mention that women were photographers, even men were engaged in this profession. When people around her advised her not to indulge in it, Sabumoto Hiroko was not moved and joked to her friend: "There is no word "impossible" in my life book."
Sabuki Hokko insisted on doing what he believed.Although Shigeko Sasamoto is not a photographer yet. But she still used the camera in her hand to capture the most beautiful picture in her mind.
Sasamoto's persistence and efforts really made her receive an invitation from Mr. Lin Qianichi, a famous master in the Japanese photography industry at that time.
It turns out that Mr. Lin Qianyi had long noticed this unique girl.
"I have seen your photography works and your illustrations. I think your foundation is very solid. Composition and painting have life and soul."
"I am currently planning to start a photography club, and you are just a female photographer, are you willing to join us?"
The unexpected surprise made Sabukiko happy, and her efforts and persistence finally bear fruit.
1950, Sasamoto joined the Japan Photography Association without hesitation, and became the first female photographer of the Japan Photography Association in history .
2.
Sasamoto Hiroko used the lens to record the vicissitudes of Japanese society. In an era when men dominated the right to speak, Hengzi's achievements were that many women could not imagine, and she also became a role model for women at that time.
Sasamoto's works truly present almost all important events in Japan in the 1940s: the Tokyo Olympics, the economic bubble, the 3.11 earthquake, etc., becoming a rare and valuable historical material in Japan.
Soya Antarctic Observation Ship | 1956
Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Explosion Memorial Hall (1962)
Professional wrestler Li Daoshan | 1954
famous Japanese writer, journalist and historian Tofu Sufeng | 1957
Time flies in a flash. With the popularization of TV photography technology and the rise of the TV industry, magazines that published her photography works have successively gone bankrupt. Sasamoto Hiroko encountered her "middle-life crisis" when she was 49 years old and she was unemployed!
Faced with the midlife crisis, many people cannot resist and lament the injustice of the world. But she smiled and said, "It's no big deal."
Adversity tests a person the most. When facing failure and setbacks, you are unhappy. Should you be defeated in Maicheng and defeated like a mountain, or to make a comeback and start over again? This is a watershed in life.
Shinko Sasamoto picked up his brush again, designed clothing, and started his own clothing club. Because Shinko Sasamoto designed the clothes in novel styles and unique shapes, they became very popular for a while, becoming a hot item for women, and their business became more and more prosperous.
But the good times didn't last long. The production of cheap and fashionable industrial clothing flourished in Japan, which suddenly made Hiroko Satoko's clothing club fall into trouble and finally had no choice but to dismiss the employees. Hiroko Satoko's clothing club eventually closed down.
0 years old and 52 years old, Hiroko Sabuki was not immersed in the pain of failure. Instead, she saw the popular "flower design" in Europe in the news, which is a new thing that has not yet become popular in Japan.
Sabuki Hokko did it as soon as she said that, and bought a lot of books on flower design. She spent most of her time studying flower design every day.
She thinks that if she just learns other people's skills, she would not have learned real skills. Only by creating your own characteristics can you truly learn from home.
After learning flower design for a year, Hiroko Sabuki published the book "Flower Design Classroom". He became an outlier in the field of flower design and became famous for a while.
For the next 20 years, Sabumoto Hiroko not only engages in flower design, but also learns and carries out jewelry design, and uses photography technology to help customers take photos in her spare time.
not only survived the "mid-life crisis", but also made the work and life live happily.
Until the age of 71, her husband died of cancer.
As the saying goes, life is rare in seventy years, not to mention that she is already 71 years old. According to ordinary people's ideas, being lonely at this age should be the best choice to spend the rest of your life in a nursing home.
, but Sabumoto Hiroko didn't think so.
"Everyone always uses age to restrict themselves and others. I always have the label of how many years old that appears in the media, but I think what I want to learn and what work I need to do actually has nothing to do with age, right?"
"In fact, everyone has a lot of things to do. When you really do these things, how long do you have to think about how old you are?"
71-year-old Sasamoto Hokko did not go to a nursing home. On the contrary, she held a photography solo exhibition that belongs to her.
She took out the old photos she took in the Showa era, and the name of the exhibition was "Hengzi's Showa". The
Photography Exhibition was a great success as soon as it was exhibited. Because the photography theme of Sasamoto Hiroko is novel, it is also a rare old scene of in Japanese history, which instantly caused a sensation in Japan and triggered many media follow-up interviews and reports.
Sasamoto Yoshiko took advantage of the opportunity to pick up the camera and continued to work hard. It took her for 6 years to film and interview 100 Japanese independent women themes from the Showa era.
6 years later, her book "The Brilliant Meiji Women" was finally born.
Sabukiyoko uses photos to record the story of everything in the world, not only touching everyone, but she also became a freelance photographer at the age of 77.
"What to learn and what work to do has nothing to do with age, right? I returned to the photographer's job at the age of 71, and no one questioned my age. I don't like to think about 'how old I am.'"
3.
86-year-old old lady is in love with , which sounds a bit magical.
As Sasamoto became a freelance photographer, her life became more colorful.
At the age of 86, Sasamoto Hiroko met the famous sculptor Charles while traveling in southern France. Sasamoto Hiroko found that she gradually fell in love with her during the ten years of traveling with wild geese, but she never broke the window paper.
Until she was 96 years old, Sasamoto Hiroko finally mustered up the courage to confess and sent a Christmas card with the words "I LOVE YOU". Unfortunately, this man has passed away and I regret it. Sasamoto Hiroko has broken up in love.
Sasamoto Hiroko accidentally fell at home at the age of 97, and her thigh and left arm were broken. She lived alone and fainted for 22 hours before being found out and sent to the hospital.
Many people who care about her think that Sasamoto Hiroko may not be able to stand up this time, but Sasamoto Hiroko not only conducts rehabilitation training in the hospital, but also keeps writing.
Just one year after recuperating, Sabumoto Hiroko published an autobiography called "The 97-year-old Curious Girl".
No matter how old you are now, if you always think that I am at this age...then you will be really done!
Just as Sasamoto Yoshiko said in the book, her optimism and open-mindedness are the best way to heal her body, Sasamoto Yoshiko stood up again.
The older and older Sabumoto Hiroko is not only more lively and more transparent, but also the better and more interesting. Not only do I clean myself up every day, but I can always match my unique clothing accessories ingeniously, so that I can still show off my own wonderful things like a young girl. When she was
100, she also won the "Best Dress Special Award" awarded by the Japan Fashion Association for her unique aesthetic concepts, and received the award on the same stage with the famous movie star Miyazawa Rie .
At the age of 103, she won the "Oscar in Photography" - the Lucy Award for Lifetime Achievement and was listed on New York Times .
After that, many people advised her to take a break and not to work so hard anymore. But Sabuki Hiroko did not stop, and was still taking pictures, writing books, and still learning new knowledge.
Sabumoto's work and rest schedule:
Get up at 6 o'clock in the morning and fall asleep at 11 o'clock every day;
When you wake up every morning, you turn on the TV to learn English and practice yoga;
After breakfast, you start reading for 2-3 hours, whether it is newspapers, magazines, or books, reading is a project she can't move every day.
Until last year when the reporter interviewed her 106-year-old, she smiled and said: is too busy and has no time to die!
We have no way to stop the aging of our bodies, but we can keep thinking running.
We cannot predict the length of our own life, but we can increase the width of our own life.
We cannot make ourselves famous in history, but we can live a wonderful life in an ordinary way.
As Sabumoto Hiroko himself said in the book:
"Looking at the world, even if you can let people who don't know know a little, you still want to use your own strength to leave traces."
th, making a fun soul!
Thank you for your reading, likes and support!
Further reading:
Do your best to move forward - the legendary life of Chinese Diaowang Deng Gang
English academic master, returnee master, bilingual reporter, and over ten million fans. This young man in Xi'an is extraordinary Meng Yutong, who is known as the "second Dong Mingzhu", is suspected to be an abandoned son? Her future cannot be underestimated
