Prof. Kiyomi Yamashita Sokolova in ULM, talking about Japanese woman writer Fumiko Hayashi. Fumiko felt that ‘Ilong’ which flowed through the river was like human life. Same as ‘Ilong’ flowing on the river, human beings also flow on the life they cannot control. We human beings is in this flow. Nobody knows where we may go. Fumiko described about a lot of things about Indonesia in 1940’s. Especially she was interested in ‘Ilong’ or “eceng gondok”, which means floating grasses in Banjarmasin language. She often drew it in her works suggestively. Fumiko Hayashi was born in 1903, and died in 1951, at the age of 47. She was one of the best…