Yokohama Municipal Special Needs School for the Blind
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Shimon: In the drama, there is a scene where Yukiko-chan (Yukiko Akaza: Sugisaki Hana) goes out on a bus.
Miyuki: You have to be fashionable before you go out.
Machiko: Batch remake
Shimon: Do you make up? ??
Machiko: Of course!
Miyuki: I'll do it!
Machiko: I use a liquid foundation and don't apply it with a sponge. Apply eyeshadow with your fingers, and eyeliner and mascara with your hands.
Shimon: Hmm, don't you make a mistake?
Machiko: It is pointed out that mascara is under my eyes when I go to work ...
Shimon: Oh.
Machiko: The eyeshadow is so dark that you might ask, "Have you been beaten?"
Shimon: Donmai!
Miyuki: I also apply it with my hands in the liquid foundation. Apply eyeshadow and lipstick with your fingers. Make up eyebrows, eyeliner, and mascara while looking in the mirror at 30x.
Magnifying glass with a diameter of 20 cm (30 times)
Shimon: The other day, a friend of a migratory bird went far away, so he said he was tired.
Miyuki: It's tiring to go to places where you don't even know amblyopia.
Machiko: I can't go to places I don't know without my companion.
Miyuki: I go out after researching where to go in advance.
Shimon: What do you do where there is no Braille block?
Machiko: I do walking training several times, counting the number of steps and walking by relying on the light.
Miyuki: People who are blind use not only hearing, but also the sense of smell, forehead and cheeks.
Machiko: That's right. You said it's hard to walk when you're in a mask.
Shimon: Hoho. It's a facial sensation.
Machiko: The third eye on the forehead.
Shimon: It's a total mobilization of the senses, isn't it?
Miyuki: When two people go out with Machiko, I walk with guidance, but the display of the destination is seen by Machiko.
Machiko: It's easy to see the electric bulletin board.
Miyuki: If the information board is a little lower, I can bring it closer, but I wonder if tall people will hit it.
Shimon: Recently, a large guide letter is written on the wall.
Destination electric bulletin board
Destination electric bulletin board
Machiko: Many people have retinitis pigmentosa with a narrow field of vision, but when you come indoors from the bright outside, it's pitch black and you can't walk suddenly.
Miyuki: That's right. Such people have eyesight and often do not have a white cane, so they are surprised because they suddenly cannot walk indoors.
Shimon: By the way, I bumped into a person at Yokohama station the other day, but I wonder if that person's field of vision was narrow.
Machiko: That's right. In a crowd, if the field of view is narrow, you will hit.
Miyuki: Some people have white canes only in the crowd.
Shimon: I don't know unless I have a white cane. It's hard to see.
Miyuki: When I walk in a crowd, it's easier to walk with someone's guidance.
Machiko: Miyuki, let's have a white cane!
Miyuki: When I watched the drama, I wanted to have a white cane.
Machiko: Isn't it okay to use the symbol cane of a thin and short white cane?
Symbol Cane: A thin and lightweight white cane
Miyuki: But one hand is occupied.
Shimon: There is also a "help mark" that people in need have.
Miyuki: Some of our schools also have a "help mark" bag on them.
Help mark
Shimon: Even if you don't have a white cane and just put a mark on it, you won't be visually impaired, so why not hang it on your bag with a cute white cane key chain?
Miyuki: If there is such a thing, I think I should attach it to my bag. Think a little more ...
Machiko: Meeting at Yokohama Station, the standard is in front of the "Midori no Madoguchi". "Mido Mado" for short
Miyuki: The good smell is also a landmark.
Shimon: How do you meet up?
Miyuki: Even though I'm right next to you, when I call my cell phone, it rings next to me and I'm surprised! I mean.
Machiko: It seems to be difficult just to imagine meeting a visually impaired person when there was no mobile phone.
Miyuki: Mobile phone life.
Machiko: When meeting people who have white canes, I intentionally ring the white canes nearby.
Shimon: I see.
Machiko: If the person you're meeting with has low vision, I'll email you the exact location and clothes of the day.
Shimon: Oh, no, no, no!
Shimon: Do you pick up a taxi?
Miyuki: First of all, I don't think about picking it up on the road. I would use a taxi parked at the station.
Machiko: I don't know if it's a taxi, so I just raise my hand and wait!
Shimon: That's hard.
Machiko: There's an app that's useful these days. "Go!"
Miyuki: I've heard of it.
Machiko: They will come to pick you up. You don't have to raise your hand all the time.
Shimon: That's amazing!
Miyuki: Even if you take a taxi, it is often not possible to get there immediately after being dropped off near your destination. I walked in a different direction and got lost ...
Machiko: After drinking and returning home, I was taken off by a taxi and got lost near my house.
Miyuki: It's embarrassing to hear more about the destination in front of you.
Shimon: Why?
Miyuki: It's hard to be told, "You're right in front of me."
Machiko: The kind driver will guide you to the front of the entrance.
Miyuki: Yeah, I know there are a lot of kind people. Even if I go down the road, some people now look it up on my cell phone and go halfway with me.
Shimon: After all, take the courage to ask for help! !!
Guidance to have a shoulder
Shimon: It's difficult to guide.
Machiko: I'm sorry to say "Would you like to help me?" After that, I get lost.
Shimon: Then what should I do?
Machiko: If you refuse, "Thank you, but it's okay," or if you tell me the positional relationship around you at the place where you were guided, you will know where you are standing.
Shimon: It's the same as when I got off the taxi.
Miyuki: It's hard to say no to help when you think, "I've called out to you."
Shimon: It's the same when I give up my seat, but even though the person who calls out has the courage to call out, I'm disappointed if I refuse.
Miyuki: If you understand the circumstances of refusing, you may not feel unpleasant even if you refuse.
Miyuki: I don't know if the pedestrian crossing is red or blue if the traffic light is too far away where there is no acoustic signal.
Machiko: Recently, the sound of cars is quiet, and if there are few people, I don't know if it turned blue or not.
Shimon: It's dangerous!
Machiko: Also, sometimes I can't cross straight and I don't know the direction.
Miyuki: The number of escort zones has increased, but there are still few.
Escort zone (equipment with a dotted line in the center of the pedestrian crossing so that visually impaired people can cross the pedestrian crossing without leaving the pedestrian crossing)
Shimon: Is there a solution?
Machiko: I'd be happy if you could ask me, "It's blue. Would you like to cross over with me?"
Miyuki: There are so many people on the platform of the station asking, "Would you like to help?", But everyone doesn't notice the pedestrian crossing.
Shimon: Yukiko from the drama was almost run over by a car, but it's as dangerous as the platform at the station.
Shimon: Why do guides have elbows and shoulders?
Machiko: To protect yourself!
Shimon :?
Miyuki: If you cross your arms, hold your hands, or hold your arms or shoulders, you will not be able to release your hands at your own will.
Shimon: I see.
Machiko: Then, the movement of the person's arm that guides it makes it easy to tell whether the road is narrow, whether it is better to stop, or the height of the step.
Shimon: Well thought out.
Guidance to have your elbows
Shimon: Do you go to karaoke?
Miyuki: Of course!
Machiko: Sometimes.
Shimon: How are you doing?
Machiko: Ask someone who can see you to say the lyrics just before.
Miyuki: Of course, I got very close to the screen.
Shimon: I see.
Miyuki: I wish I could choose the font size of the screen and make it larger.
Shimon: That's good.
Miyuki: It's easier to see the screen when the room is a little dark.
Machiko: That's not good. It disappears when the room is darkened. I'll spill a drink.
Shimon: Stop fighting.
Machiko: People who are blind put lyrics on the Braille display and sing while reading it.
Miyuki: That's right.
Machiko: After going to the bathroom, I often mistakenly entered a different room.
Shimon: I'll do it even if I can see it.
Miyuki: The room number is hard to see, so count the number of doors and remember it.
Shimon: There are many things in the city that I wish the letters were a little bigger.
Machiko: Mr. Shimon. Do you like songs
Shimon: Yes, of course!
"I'm in love! -Yankee-kun and the White Cane Girl-"
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Sentence / Illustration of Yokohama Municipal Special Needs School for the Blind "Miyuki" and "Machiko" / Chiaki Sekiguchi Illustration of "Shimon" / Yokohama Municipal Special Needs School for the Blind
Profile Shimon: Yokohama Municipal Special Needs School for the Blind, abbreviated as City Blind. The blue bird of happiness in the school emblem is an ancestor. First year in office as an official character. Machiko: Diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa (color change) at the age of 13. She gradually narrowed her visual field. She loves to drink while celebrating a black cat. Miyuki: Naturally amblyopia. Her right eye had glaucoma and was blind at the age of 13. She has a habit of making coffee with a hand mill and enjoying chocolate with its aroma.
