Icchū mandated that students walk to school if they lived within three miles; otherwise, they could take the train to the three-mile point. Takasu lay slightly farther away, but Frank traveled entirely by foot anyway. He ran each way six days a week. “Ame ni mo makezu, kaze ni mo makezu.” “Not losing to the rain, not losing to the wind . . .” So went the beloved poem by poet Kenji Miyazawa.
