Toshiko Hashimoto
Nyah and Shah Toshiko Hashimoto tell us the story of Nyah and Shah. Let’s listen to her words: It was over a dozen years ago when I was living an easy life alone in an old wooden two-roomed apartment that must have been about 40 years old at the time. One midsummer night, a sound emanating from the backroom suddenly woke me up. “An intruder!” was my first thought. Turning on the light fearfully, I was amazed to see a mother cat and a small kitten of the brown tiger variety emerging unexpectedly from a closet. Then I remembered that …