Theo Nakagawa-Reed
Hana Nakagawa-Reed
sibling of Theodore
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born Nov 9, 2001 · 24 on Oct 5, 2026
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What the account says about Hana
33 records, oldest first2021
Apr 17
2024
Jan 7
birthdays
jan 27 dad
jan 30 kofi
feb 11 maren
apr 12 obaachan
may 16 aunt colleen
jul 19 dez
aug 30 jiichan
sep 3 mom
oct 2 priya
nov 9 hana
dec 14 lu
mine mar 22. miso "june 1" (made up by the shelter)
Nov 9
Hana is 23 today. called her at lunch her time. she got the job at the animal h…
…ospital, the real one with the surgery suite, not the clinic in the strip mall, and she starts the first week of december. she was eating a burrito in her car and crying a little and telling me about a dog named Kevin.
I'm so proud of her I don't know where to put it. she's the one who stayed. I left at eighteen and…
Nov 28
thanksgiving at Aunt Colleen and Marcel's. eleven people. Marcel's nephew Théo…
…(accent, so we are Theo and Théo, he's nine and thinks this is the funniest thing that has ever happened) made me draw his dog four times until the ears were right.
Colleen looks like dad around the eyes when she's listening. she asked about Jiichan's fall before I brought it up, so dad must have told her, so it's a…
Dec 11
xmas, budget 150 total, not going home this year (flights are 600+)
mom: the heron print framed. frame from the thrift store, cut a new mat
dad: wool socks
hana: drawing of her dog-patients wall? ask for photos. + the hot sauce she likes from the co-op
obaachan + jiichan: a drawing of their persimmon tree from the photo on my phone. ink. mail by the 14th
dez: knife sharpening gift cer…
Dec 25
christmas here. didn't go home, the flights were over six hundred and december…
…was already built out of portrait money.
video call at ten their time. everyone at mom and dad's except Jiichan, who has been in the hospital since sunday with pneumonia. they say he's responding to the antibiotics. Obaachan held the phone too close so I mostly talked to her forehead. she had on the brooch. Hana car…
2025
Jan 12
monthly, the small stuff
phone 25
internet 45
adobe photo plan 9.99
cloud backup 9.99
music 11.99
website host 16 (billed yearly, 192 in march)
domain 18/yr
invoicing app free tier
renters ins 148/yr in june
movies: Hana's account
= about 119/mo w/ the yearly ones spread out
cancel candidates: music (use the library app?), adobe if I go all i…
Feb 10
mom called at 4:50 her time sunday. Jiichan died this morning. logistics:
- flight: tues 2/11, MSP 6:05am -> DEN -> SMF 11:40am. back wed 2/19, SMF 1:15pm -> MSP 8:50pm direct. 512.40 on the card. mom wants to pay, said no
- hana picks me up
- funeral sat 2/15 11am at the temple, then the lunch after in the hall
- wed + thurs: help mom w/ the photo boards, dad is doing the program
- I say s…
Feb 11
B7. 6:05. hana at arrivals, door 4
Feb 14
what I'm going to say tomorrow. read it slow. look at Obaachan once.
My grandfather, Tadashi Nakagawa, counted things. He counted the persimmons on the tree behind the house every October and wrote the number on the calendar in the kitchen. He counted the steps from his front door to the mailbox, which was forty-one, and he told me that number so many times that I counted them myself t…
Feb 16
Sacramento. sunday night, in my old room, with the glow stars still on the ceil…
…ing. the funeral was yesterday. I want to get the week down before it turns into a story I tell.
tuesday. Hana picked me up at the airport and we didn't say anything until the freeway and then she said "he asked for you" and I said "I know, mom told me" and she said "no, before that. all week. he kept asking if you…
Jun 25
HANA'S HERE july 3-9!!
in: thurs 7/3, SMF -> MSP lands 4:35pm, terminal 1. I pick her up (car has no AC, warn her)
out: wed 7/9, 10:20am
she gets the bed, I take the camping pad
plan:
- 4th: fireworks from the Stone Arch side w/ Dez + Priya, bring the blanket
- sat: lake day, cedar, then the walleye place? or tacos
- sun: I work 10-5, can't…
Jul 6
Hana's been here since thursday. she's asleep in my bed with Miso on her feet,…
…traitor. I'm on the camping pad in the living room writing by the bay window.
the 4th: fireworks from the river with Dez and Priya. Hana and Dez argued for an hour about whether a burrito is a sandwich and are now best friends. Priya whispered "she's you but she finishes her sentences."
yesterday the lake. she swam…
Jul 15
Hana and I are small, in the backyard on Sorrelwick. the persimmon tree is full…
…of light bulbs instead of fruit, the old kind with the filament, all lit, in the daytime. Jiichan is up the ladder unscrewing them one at a time and handing them down to us and we're putting them in an egg carton. Hana says "these ones are ripe." they're warm and they don't burn.
Dec 14
going HOME. sat 12/20 to sun 12/28. first time since february.
gifts (budget 200):
- mom: the map print from the Pilcrow book, signed, + coffee (Loon)
- dad: the 2000 piece jigsaw of old radios + coffee (Chickadee)
- hana: a framed drawing of her cat Udon
- obaachan: the 41 steps zine, and I'll read it to her. + new brush pens, she's started doing his sunday painting
pack: sketch…
Dec 18
FOR ANNIKA — Miso, dec 20-28. printed copy is on the fridge.
FOOD
- morning (whenever you get home from your shift is fine, she's used to 7-8am): a SCANT 1/4 cup of the dry salmon food. the scoop is in the bag. she will act like it isn't enough
- evening (6-8pm): HALF a can of the turkey pate, in the blue dish. the other half goes in the fridge w/ the silicone lid on. next nigh…
Dec 21
home. got in yesterday afternoon. sixty degrees and everyone in jackets.
dad met me at the door without the cane, on purpose, standing very straight. he walked me to the car and back to show me. mom rolled her eyes behind him and then hugged me so hard my glasses went sideways.
the house is different. Obaachan's in my old room, so I'm on the fold-out in the den with the humming fish tank.…
Dec 27
last night here. flying back tomorrow at noon. writing in the den with the fish.
the week. I want all of it.
Obaachan gets up at five and I've been getting up with her, which nobody asked me to do. she sweeps the patio in the dark, the same strokes, and then she makes tea and sits at the kitchen table and paints. she started in the spring. his brushes, his ink stone, the cheap newsprint not the g…
2026
Mar 19
looked at listings last night for two hours. I'm staying. the math isn't close.…
…the bay window is worth 55 dollars. so is Gerald.
mom called this afternoon, out of nowhere, on a thursday. Hana had told her about the cat, which means Hana had told her about the car, which means everyone knows the whole month. mom said "your father and I would like to help" in the voice she uses for parents at th…
Mar 22
28.
I didn't want to do anything and they made me. pho, the four of us. Lu, Dez, Priya. they'd agreed beforehand that I wasn't allowed to look at the bill.
Priya's present is a print of my own bay window with a tiny Miso in it. Dez's is chili crisp. Lu's is a spoke wrench. Hana's box had a photograph I'd never seen: Jiic…
Mar 24
Odette called at eleven this morning. I was at the desk doing nothing, moving a…
…pencil around.
Pilcrow & Pine wants me to illustrate a picture book. a whole one. thirty-two pages. it's called Grandfather Heron Counts the Ice.
I made her say the title twice.
it's about a girl and her grandfather waiting every spring for the ice to go off a lake, and he writes the date in a notebook every year,…
Jun 28
JAPAN, april 2027. Obaachan turns 88 on april 12 and is taking some of Jiichan'…
…s ashes to Yuasa.
who: Obaachan, mom, dad, Hana, me. Kenta (the cousin) is meeting us in Wakayama
dates (mom's draft): leave SFO sat 4/3, home wed 4/14. Osaka 2 nights, Yuasa 5, Kyoto 3
my costs:
- flight MSP -> SFO -> KIX: ~1,350 round trip if I book by november
- rail + food + my share of rooms: ~900
- mom + dad ar…
Jul 11
Hana texted this morning asking for my passport number, she's holding flights f…
…or april. I went and got it out of the drawer, out of the envelope with the yen from 2016, and read it to her, and then I read the other line.
it expired june 13th. four weeks ago. it's been lying in a drawer being invalid while I planned a trip to Japan.
I knew it was this year. I wrote "check the date" in a note…
Jul 26
sunday call, 40 min
- the persimmon tree has "too many" this year. she counted 212 green ones from the kitchen window. she's doing his count on the calendar now
- she got the drawing of the red jacket (I sent her the 14-15 sketch). she put it next to his picture. she asked why the bird and the man are standing the same and I said "becaus…
Aug 18
Kofi + Linh, sat nov 7, 4pm, the botanical garden in Oakland. I'm a groomsman!!…
…and I'm doing the invitation as my gift
invitation: 5x7. the 51 bus where they met, w/ a just-married sign. ink + one colour, persimmon orange
due to the printer by 9/1. (sent 8/29)
travel: fly MSP -> SMF thurs 11/5, stay at mom + dad's, drive down w/ Hana fri. back to MSP tues 11/10, so I'm still in Sacramento for H…
Aug 30
he'd be ninety today.
Obaachan had the whole family over for his breakfast. Hana put me on the laptop at the end of the table, so I had rice at nine in the morning in Minneapolis with seven people in Sacramento. Mateo was there. he's tall. he eats.
I showed them the kanji. I've been practicing his name every morning for a month on newspri…
Sep 5
Kofi's wedding is on the 51 bus and I'm the driver. I've never driven a bus. ev…
…eryone's dressed up and holding the poles. Linh is at the back in white and Kofi's at the front and I have to get the bus to bring them together but it only goes forward. Hana is next to me reading the route off my own invitation drawing. "left at the persimmon," she says, and there is one, a tree, in the middle of O…
Sep 8
Wanjiru says illustrators get a dedication too, on p2, under Liesl's. due w/ th…
…e final art.
tries:
- for Jiichan, who counted
- for Tadashi Nakagawa, 41 steps
- for my grandfather, who gave me the paper
- for Jiichan and Obaachan. he counted. she remembers the number
the last one. I think. ask Hana.
Sep 10
Hana's birthday
Sep 21
for the Finchley application, my half, so I can copy it out
legal name: Theodore Kenji Nakagawa-Reed
current landlord: Gail Hedlund, Fourgable Properties, 612-555-0106. here since 6/1/24
EMPLOYER: Crooked Fender Cycles, 2411 E Hollis St, Mpls 55406. bike mechanic, part-time. started 9/14/2021. supervisor Ines Aguilar 612-555-0137, shop line 612-555-0110
pay: 20.50/hr (since ap…
Sep 24
hana says japan is the 2nd now? mom's draft said the 3rd. ask mom
Sep 27
called Hana about Finchley. I laid it all out: the sunroom, the money being abo…
…ut equal, the bay window, the lease, Gerald, the fact that Miso will have no radiator to sit on.
she let me finish and said "you've lived alone for two years and it was the right thing. you needed to find out you could. you found out. you don't have to keep proving it."
I said what if living with Dez wrecks it. she…
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Facts
| First name | Hana |
|---|---|
| Last name | Nakagawa-Reed |
| Date of birth | 2001-11-09 |
Phones
- number: '9165550119' variant: Mobile
Emails
- email: hana.nr@fastletter.example variant: Personal
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Mom · 1 record Dad · 1 record Obaachan · 1 record Jiichan · 1 record Aunt Colleen · 1 record Miso · 1 record Dez · 1 record Priya · 1 record Jonah · 1 record Sam Haddad · 1 record Lu · 1 record Kofi · 1 recordQuestions
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q014 I'm filling out the rental application for the Finchley place. Pull together what they'll ask for: full legal name, date of birth, where I've lived the last five years with dates, my current landlord and her phone, what I pay in rent, employer and income, my car, references and an emergency contact. q001 what's my SSN q013 what address is printed on my license