The common denominator is “love for people”… “Honjamaka” Hidehiko Ishizuka’s insights from his visit to a mansion

Next, a trademark owner of a certain product. He lived in a house that stood on a hill overlooking the sea. The house itself was a small one-story house, but there was a stream running through the yard, and there were stream crabs. With the ocean spread out before their eyes, it was like a paradise.

Usually, he and his wife spend their time together painting in oil. When we asked him about his particular lifestyle, he mentioned that he changes his residence every five years. The reason, he said, was because he wanted to enjoy various places in Japan together.

When I rudely asked him why his house was so small, he said, “I miss my wife because I can’t see her in a big house. At this point, my interest changed from the “big house” to the “people.

Why does the female president wear “big earrings?”

Finally, a female president who runs a ryotei restaurant. Here, it was not the building but the accessories she was wearing that caught my attention. An expensive ring that even an amateur would recognize, and earrings so large you could almost hear the screams of her earlobes.

Perhaps sensing my puzzled look, the president said, “Oh, this is it. I wear them because I’m in the business of selling dreams to the customers who come to the store. It doesn’t matter if they laugh at me for wearing a strange accessory. I was ashamed that until then I had thought that people who lived in mansions were money losers.

People who live in mansions. It is a person who keeps love for others. Incidentally, 70% of the mansions I reported on had an ornament of Hotei, one of the Seven Deities of Good Luck. I immediately purchased Hotei-sama as well, but he still doesn’t seem to smile at me.

From the February 21/28, 2025 issue of FRIDAY