As I assumed, my extreme efforts were paid off in spades. I could hear from the children's room, when father was talking to my mother after coming back from Tokyo:
“I am opening the notebook in a toy shop, and it's written there: “a mask of a lion”. And the handwriting is not mine. “Who’s is it?” I thought, and understood that it had to be Edzo’s. When I asked him what to bring him, he just smiled and was silent. Later, he must have decided he wanted it so he couldn't help writing it down in the notebook by himself. He is a strange boy. If he wanted it, he should have told me. I burst out laughing in the shop. Call him quickly.”
Notes
1
Hakama – a bottom part of a man's traditional costume which looks like a pleated skirt.
2
Hibachi – a hearth dropped into the floor; a traditional heating device in a Japanese house.
3
Natto – food made from fermented soybeans.
4
Ye-chan – a short version of the name Edzo.