**External link to the website except written in Japanese
You might have used the Keisei Line (京成線) when you went to Narita Airport (成田国際空港) from Ueno, Shinagawa, or Asakusa.
And you can take the Keisei Line train from Keisei-Kanamachi station (京成金町駅), one of my nearest stations, for Ueno or Keisei-Takasago (京成高砂) via Shibamata (柴又) which is famous as the main scene of Japanese movie series Otoko wa Tsurai yo (男はつらいよ) starring Atsumi Kiyoshi (渥見清) as Tora-san (寅さん).
Photo taken with my cellular phone from the outside of the platform on Keisei Kanamachi station on the way to the library.
One more photo.
This coloring is very rare because all Keisei trains were painted with these colors once (1959-1980) but last year only these cars (3300 series 3324F) were repainted with them for the 100th anniversary of Keisei Electric Railway.
I was a little happy to see it. \(^o^)/
(Click here* to see 3300 series painted with normal coloring.)
Today in the morning I was awoken by a phone call from my maternal uncle.
He told me through the phone that yesterday his and my mother's male cousin died suddenly.
And he said that their cousin seemed to die of disease but he did not know which disease killed him in detail.
By the way, I do not have a memory that I saw their cousin who was younger than my mother and uncle. And he has two children, who shall enter university next April.
However this news was not able to surprise me at all.
In the last 1 year and 4 months after my grandmother's death (Dec. '08) four of their cousins died of disease and two of them were younger than my mother (54 years old.)
(Once I wrote about the death of one of them on this article.)
Moreover Jan. '08 my paternal uncle at 56, and Dec. '08 my grandmother at 77, died suddenly. Both died of heart failure when taking a bath.
In Addition, Apr. last year my father himself was dying of heart failure at 54 and only half alive.
The average life expectancy* of Japanese men is about 79 years (2005; Japanese women's one is about 86 year.) They were not young but not so old to die as Japanese.
Ironically I have got accustomed to being awoken by a phone call to tell me the sudden death of someone of my relatives.
Parents (my grandmother's brother and his wife) of their cousin who died yesterday are in good health.
We are mortal and sometime shall die, however nothing could be the piety for parents (親不孝) but children's dying earlier than them.
R.I.P.
He told me through the phone that yesterday his and my mother's male cousin died suddenly.
And he said that their cousin seemed to die of disease but he did not know which disease killed him in detail.
By the way, I do not have a memory that I saw their cousin who was younger than my mother and uncle. And he has two children, who shall enter university next April.
However this news was not able to surprise me at all.
In the last 1 year and 4 months after my grandmother's death (Dec. '08) four of their cousins died of disease and two of them were younger than my mother (54 years old.)
(Once I wrote about the death of one of them on this article.)
Moreover Jan. '08 my paternal uncle at 56, and Dec. '08 my grandmother at 77, died suddenly. Both died of heart failure when taking a bath.
In Addition, Apr. last year my father himself was dying of heart failure at 54 and only half alive.
The average life expectancy* of Japanese men is about 79 years (2005; Japanese women's one is about 86 year.) They were not young but not so old to die as Japanese.
Ironically I have got accustomed to being awoken by a phone call to tell me the sudden death of someone of my relatives.
Parents (my grandmother's brother and his wife) of their cousin who died yesterday are in good health.
We are mortal and sometime shall die, however nothing could be the piety for parents (親不孝) but children's dying earlier than them.
R.I.P.
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