Ishida Yuriko’s kanji of 2019 is “suji” (muscle)

Back in December 2018, Ishida Yuriko announced on Instagram that she suffered the greatest pain in her life and was diagnosed with “calcific tendonitis”..

For the past year, Ishida has been working hard to feel better healthwise, Ishida wrote, “I am not in the stage where I can show myself yet. Since the beginning of this year, I have started muscle training and also some pilates. I do not like the word anti-aging. Exercise, in a real sense, is anti-aging. To know one’s potential. Don’t give up! To continue, to evolve…I will tell myself to do my best.”

Today, Ishida Yuriko posted on Twitter of her word of the year and it is “suji” (muscle).  Ishida wrote about her muscle training, training not for showing off but muscle to support oneself.

 

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2019年の漢字は「令」。 わたくし個人の 2019年の漢字は これです。 筋肉の筋 筋トレの筋 心の筋肉 感受性の筋肉。 鍛えれば絶対につく筋肉。 見せるための筋肉ではなく 内側の自分を支える ほんとうに必要な筋肉。 その素晴らしさに目覚めた一年でした。 #2019年の漢字

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