Ninety-seven-year-old curious girl who just died at the age of one hundred and seven

Recently, I learned that Japan's first female photographer, photojournalist Sasamoto Tsuneko, passed away in mid-August. When I read her autobiography at the beginning of this year, I counted, she will be 108 years old in September this year.

I believe she has no regrets about her life and leaves feeling fulfilled.

I stumbled across her autobiography "97-year-old Curious Girl" in the library. How could anyone have the same mentality as me? In the written photo, she had a childish smile on her face, and was full of vibrant hope, so she borrowed it immediately.

In life, there will always be times of confusion, especially as a reporter, especially as a reporter in Hong Kong, especially in recent years as a reporter in Hong Kong. Anyone who wants to be a good reporter burns their own ideals, messing around, doing business, and messing about. It is curiosity that pushes me to discover one story after another. Even at the turning point of my life, curiosity is endless, and the driving force of my predecessor, Masako Sasamoto, is also curiosity.

Born in 1914, Sasamoto was a painter, novelist, and journalist her childhood dream job. Her father, who loves Japanese painting, asked her to learn painting, but he objected to her career as a painter on the grounds that she could not marry and could not fill her stomach. She listened to the teacher's advice and went to a higher professional school, but she couldn't devote herself to it and dropped out of school without authorization. At that time, how rebellious she was, shows her rebellious personality.

Encouraged by the tenant who rented her house (a news reporter), Sasamoto Masako, who had never had a camera, accepted the job of a reporting photographer. "What a man can do, a woman can't do it." In 1940, she joined the Photography Association Foundation and became the first female reporting photographer in Japan.

A lot of previous articles about this book have introduced Masamoto Sasamoto as Japan's first female news photographer reporter, but when I read this book, she wrote that the initial mission of the Photographic Association included a propaganda campaign: "...by the Cabinet Intelligence Department and various agencies ( A voluntary organization jointly funded by the army, navy, foreign affairs, railways, and industry and commerce.” Lin Qianyi, who invited her to join, was sent to mainland China as a reporter and found that Japan’s propaganda war was far behind other countries. Established a photography association to transmit photos to foreign countries, the first photo agency in Japan.

Sasamoto got divorced because she was too devoted to her work; due to changes in the social and economic environment, she made a living by sewing, which she learned in her youth, followed by ikebana. However, concerns about photography lingered.

In 1984, when her second husband died of illness, she was threaded by a distant relative to hold an exhibition of her works in the post-war period photographed in the 1930s. At the age of seventy-one, she returned to the world of photography.

"This is the age when many people of the same age retire, and I start over."

Since then, she has never mentioned her age until her real age was revealed in a photo exhibition in 2010, which caused a stir among the public.

There are so many things I want to do, I don't have time to think about my age. Even if someone asks my age, I always answer them "I have no age".

"Whether it's mental or physical, once you slack off, it's not easy to start over, especially as you get older."

Sasamoto Masako is not as happy and carefree as the surface.

It is wise not to show hard work on my face, right? Even if I put on a sad face, no one will hug me except my mother. Therefore, even if you hide your tears in secret, you still have to show yourself a cheerful and happy side on the surface.

There have been times when people around me have opened up a path for me when I'm running out of steam. I am convinced that the reason why my luck in popularity is so good must be because I have always maintained a cheerful mood. I think, whether it's popularity or luck, they must gather in bright places, right?

This is the wisdom of experience, and I have to remember it well. "No one will hug me except my mother." Under Sasamoto's energetic smile, it was an insight into the cold reality that many people felt the same way.

Most of the comments focus on her ignoring her age and devoting herself to work, but I think her sharing of beauty and love should also be paid attention to. Before nine in the morning, she put on foundation, painted her brows, and put on lipstick. If the complexion is not good, a little blush will be applied. "Although I live alone, if someone suddenly comes to the door, it's not good to look unkempt?" Oh, if I don't go out, I'll be lazy, really sloppy.

When she was young, she loved to put on perfume and rubbed it on her clothes. If she used cologne, she would open the clothes a little and spray some inside the clothes, and the smell would not be too ostentatious.

Old age, but also beautiful. All things and flowers bloom and wither are precious. ~~Song sung by Fumi Saito, a member of the Japan Academy of Arts

"Can a person not fall in love after the age of 90? I personally think that as long as it doesn't cause any trouble to anyone, it's okay. And it may make one less wrinkle."

She implicitly stated in the book that she is still in love. I like that she doesn't use the cliché of "Twilight Love". Since you have forgotten your age, there is no such thing as twilight and no twilight, not to mention that love makes you young.

When she eats dinner, she will definitely drink a glass of wine instead of the main meal. Looking at the interview film, the weight of a glass of wine is still quite large. If I can stay as lively as she is like this, I will also have a drink tonight, and I will be curious!