Family Lore and the Great Kanto Earthquake
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="308"] Tokyo after the Great Kanto Earthquake[/caption]
A version of the short essay that follows was originally published at my friend Marc Brush's wonderful but now defunct online lit mag Wandering Army.
I have some mixed feelings about reviving the piece barely a month after the devastating March 11 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. But I keep seeing references to the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, and only a few of these references make mention of the story that I'm going to tell here. ...