Tokyo Nobody by Nicholas Hogg

Author:Nicholas Hogg [Hogg, Nicholas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Swift

I walked with her to Ginza station. I felt like the dawdling geek making the most of his time with a cooler kid. Only here a fortnight and she already had her own life.

“Call if you get lost.”

“I can already ask for directions. Hibiya koen wa doko desu ka?”

“Your pronunciation’s better than mine.”

Her phone buzzed and she looked at the screen. “Later, dad.” Then she jogged down the station steps and left me wondering which direction to walk.

I backtracked and took a stroll around the Imperial Palace. Usually the open space was a relief from claustrophobic Tokyo, but today it felt cold and empty so I went back into Ginza and hovered around the department stores. After a weak cappuccino in a smoky café I headed towards a curry shop beneath an archway of the Yamanote line. A jazz soundtrack accompanied by the rumble of passing trains scored the restaurant scene of single men tucking into cheap food. I ate and thought of nothing, just the sauce on the spoon, occasionally looking up to watch shadows pass by on the opaque window.

Then I zipped up my coat and walked outside.

She was stopped by a bank. A woman in a kimono, checking her hair and smoothing her silk in the mirrored glass. She wore the print of a flying crane, a feathery scarf. Rouged cheeks and a delicate, pale neck. I stared at her reflection while she rummaged in her handbag. After she found the lipstick, she looked up and saw me. Against the white of her powdered face, her eyes were nearly black. For one jolting second I thought it was her, before she shuffled away, carefully lifting up her precious hem.

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