Poet Machi Tawara will appear on Tetsuko Kuroyanagi's long-running talk show "Tetsuko's Room" (TV Asahi), which will be broadcast at 1:00 pm on January 20th. Thirty-nine years have passed since her wildly popular "Salad Anniversary," and she is now in her 60s.
Her father was a physicist who always supported his daughter's success, but he passed away two years ago at the age of 91. Tawara, who had loved her father since she was a child, published a series of tanka poems titled "White Father" in his memory.
She gave birth as a single mother at the age of 40, but her son experienced the Great East Japan Earthquake in Sendai when he was in the first grade of elementary school, which left her mentally exhausted. Unable to bear the pain, Tawara and her son moved to Ishigaki Island in Okinawa, where they regained their strength while raising their child in nature, and are now majoring in Japanese language at university, just like her mother.
