misunderstandings, she [his wife Yuko Kawano] told him, "You try to justify your behavior with arguments." He fell silent. "You're a coward," she would say. Under such circumstances, he often did an about-turn when he arrived at the front gate of his house and returned to his office to avoid such quarrels. His children suggested he divorce her, but he never considered it.It was her tanka poems that swept away the turbulent times for several years. In one of them, she wrote: "When I was mentally broken, you held me tight and cried. There was nothing else to do," he recounted. "If it wasn't for that tanka, I might not have been able to get through the hard times."
from The Daily Yomiuri: Working through grief with tanka poems
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