仮設住宅玄関先に女性の靴と男性の靴が並んでいますが、実は女性の単身世帯です。
同居していた両親が津波で行方不明、祖母は震災より３週間後に突然逝去しました。
行政発注の仮設住宅風呂釜追い炊き工事に他県から来ていた男性業者に単身者と知られ、
付き纏いが始まりました。頼れる近親者もなく行政や警察に相談しましたが、自分の身は
自分で守るしかないと思い知らされました。
不本意ですが、二人暮らしを装うために知人から男性の靴を貰い受け並べて置くことにしました。
既に仮設住宅からは転居しており、震災からまもなく６年になりますが、いまだに玄関先には男性用の靴を置き、左手薬指には結婚指輪に見紛うファッションリングをする日々が続いています。

ラティーナ
宮城県石巻市仮設住宅 2012年10月撮影
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Although both women’s and men’s shoes are lined up at the entrance of this temporary housing unit, only a single woman is living here.
My parents and I had been living together, but they have been missing ever since the tsunami attack; my grandmother passed away suddenly three weeks after the disaster.
A man from another prefecture was hired to work on the bathtubs in temporary housing. When he found out that I was living alone, he started to stalk me. With no close relatives to rely upon, I consulted city officials and the police. That forced me to realize that I had to protect myself.
In the end, I resigned myself to placing a pair of men's shoes that I got from an acquaintance next to mine. This way, it looks as if a couple is living in the house. Almost six years have passed since the disaster. I have since moved out of that temporary housing. However, I still place a pair of men’s shoes at the entrance of my house, and every day I wear a ring that looks like a wedding ring.

Latina
Photo: Temporary housing in coastal area of Miyagi Prefecture, October 2012