
My Grandmother Wasn't Being Stubborn
I'm sansei. My grandmother slept on a shikibuton until she died at 96 — refused every offer to buy her a 'real' bed. I thought it was old-country pride. The first morning on the Hanare I sat up on the edge of the bed and just started crying. She wasn't being stubborn. She was being right. I've slept on the wrong thing my whole adult life.



