Ruscus Flowers | Azusa Miyamoto | GRAF Publishers 2022

“Salmon rice balls, maitake cooked rice, egg soup. Whenever I go home, I always have my grandmother make them.

Hirosaki City, Aomori, where my mother was born.

I didn’t grow up here.
I don’t know how to pass the winters.
I don’t understand the Tsugaru dialect.

I walk to the hot springs in the next city over, and on the way back, I stop by Sakurano. After a night of drinking in Kajimachi, I take a taxi back home.

I sneak up the stairs and quietly open the door.” -  Azusa Miyamoto’s foreword