A 90-Year Old Shoeshine Queen in Tokyo
There is a woman who started her business, shoeshine, in 1950 before the Tokyo Station.
Even today, namely 60 years after, she is in her business actively.
When she was 28-years old, her husband died leaving his wife and two infant children. As one of the children was physically weak, the widow gave up taking up an ordinary job, since she needed flexible working hours. That is why she started shoeshine. And, now she has more than 10 grand-children and great-grand children, though she lives alone rejecting offers of living together from her children and grand children. But, only a few peers remain on the street though there were scores 60 years ago.
The 90-year-old female shoeshine in Tokyo still uses a wooden box a greengrocery gave to her long time ago. It was originally used for keeping strawberries, but after 50 years, it is still in active use to contain material for her business. She said that she was good at woodworking. She makes everything necessary in her life by hand. She really stands alone at 90.
Of course, she doesn't have to or is not forced to polish shoes of Tokyo salaried workers for any income. But she is there as she was 60 years ago while almost every building around the Tokyo Station has been rebuilt or replaced. She works there, if so called, like a queen of Tokyo.
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Joh 1:11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
Joh 1:12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
Joh 1:13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
Joh 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.