Tora-san has been still very popular as the series ended due to the death of its main actor, Kiyoshi Atsumi in 1990s.

Watching the series played on TV once in a quite while remind me of some kind of legitimacy....

Legitimacy of good old Japanese...
Legitimacy of simple humanness...
Legitimacy of sense of distance...

The legitimacy list goes on.

Word of the day
legitimacy : 正統性、合法性

Quote of the day
“Against legitimacy is arrayed usurpation; against modest,single-minded, righteous, and brave resistance to encroachment is arrayed boastful, double-tongued, selfish, and treacherous ambition to possess. God defend the right!"
"God often defends the powerful.”
― Charlotte Brontë