Kuhara Statue and Matthew Patrick. Grandfather and Grandson.

I was 10 when my Grandfather died.  He was 97.  Until then, I would see him periodically, especially during summers and those years when my father was on sabbatical and we lived in Japan.  There were times when my brother and I would stay in the tiny room at the back of his house for the summer.  When we were toddlers, we lived at his Tamagawa house outside Tokyo.