Chapter 11 Summary - Winter Sky (February 1975)

As a result of both of them having been married before, Aya and Mr. Kimura's wedding is a short affair. Afterwards, Yuki is helping Etsuko, her uncle Saburo's wife (whom she had just met that morning), prepare food in the kitchen. Etsuko is cleaning a fish and it reminds Yuki of her own particular eating habitsfish, it reminds Yuki of her own particular eating habits, and how her stepmother often cooked things she could not eat. After placing her grandmother's good white china on a tray, Yuki goes to the family room where her grandparents, Aya and Mr. Kimura and her uncle Saburo are already sitting on the floor. She notices how her grandfather's health has deteriorated since she last saw him; he now walks with a cane.

Her grandfather suggests Yuki put a plate down...