(Part 1/5) “Sorrow had found shelter in this place with my ancestors. Had it not been for this place, we would probably be able to know, listen and understand. It is a thing of great rumination and a thing of great problem. If they had only chosen to stay down at the leveled lands, maybe we would be living happier lives. Nothing has changed for my children. The struggles that I had to endure have leaped on to my sons and daughters. I have investigated a few things in my life. And I have come to the conclusion that the place you stay determines your fate. If you go look at my children today, they do not know more than me. And the other thing I have uncovered is the fact that our previous ancestors always searched for the most difficult places to live in. Caves, ravines, forests, and cliffs. The river would shut them in and they would just isolate with their own people from the rest of the world. You were wilfully trapped. Water did not come in taps and the women had to risk their lives to go fill water in bamboo containers from the raging Tamakoshi. I have failed to understand why my grandfather had to come up so high and buy an ill-fated land like this one. What had he dreamt the night before?”