Kissa Ojisan

[Machine Translation] Junichiro Matsuo is 57 years old. He retired early from a major general contractor and is currently unemployed. He has a wife and child, but they have been living separately for about six months since his wife, Akiko, moved into the apartment where their daughter, Arisa, a second-year college student, lives. He has no hope of finding a new job, and he has no hobbies. He enjoyed a cup of coffee and an egg sandwich at a coffee shop he stumbled into, and as he walked around one more shop, he came up with an idea. From now on, my hobby will be "visiting coffee shops, especially pure coffee shops. Higashi-ginza, Shinbashi, Gakugeidaigaku, Ameyoko, Shibuya, Ikebukuro, Kyoto. He enjoys the taste of the coffee and the store's signboard, but in fact, he has a bitter past. He had started a coffee shop with his retirement money, overcoming his wife's opposition, and had closed it down within six months.

松尾純一郎、57歳。大手ゼネコンを早期退職し、現在無職。妻子はあるが、大学二年生の娘・亜里砂が暮らすアパートへ妻の亜希子が移り住んで約半年、現在は別居中だ。再就職のあてはないし、これといった趣味もない。ふらりと入った喫茶店で、コーヒーとタマゴサンドを楽しみ、せっかくだからもう一軒と歩きながら思いついた。これから、趣味は「喫茶店、それも純喫茶巡り」にしよう。東銀座、新橋、学芸大学、アメ横、渋谷、池袋、京都―。コーヒーとその店の看板の味を楽しみながら各地を巡るが、実は苦い過去を抱えていた。妻の反対を押し切り、退職金を使って始めた喫茶店を半年で潰していた―。