Problem
The time is about 1900. An elderly grandparent is speaking with a young grandchild about the grandchild's life in late Meiji Japan. (Pick the gender of your grandparent and grandchild.) The grandparent was a peasant born and raised in the Tokugawa countryside, and fondly reminiscing about the past.
The young grandchild was born around 1880 during the Meiji Era and was born and raised in Tokyo, the capital of Japan and of its changes. What was his/her response to his/her grandparent's fond memories of a Tokugawa childhood? How does this young person think that his or her life in Meiji Japan is better or worse for someone like him/her than the life that the grandparent had lived in Tokugawa? How and why?