It might be a personal organizational tag—a reader’s own marking to distinguish this file from other Ogawa PDFs.
Aya watches Hisako constantly. She describes the toddler’s movements, her smells, her naps. This is not maternal affection; it is predatory cataloging. Part 1 trains the reader to feel complicit in this gaze. We, too, begin to watch Hisako through Aya’s eyes. The Diving Pool Yoko Ogawa.pdf 1