Tabanata’s Wife

Sinai Hamada
 Background of the Author
• Sinai Hamada(1912-1991)
• A Japanese-Filipino who is born in Baguio City.
• His father was an Japanese engineer and his mother was an Ibaloi.
• Writes features, essays, poems, and short stories, mostly on cross-cultural currents.
• The founding editor of the Midland Courier.
• The first lawyer of the city.
• Tanabata‘s Wife was described by National Artist for Francisco Arcellana as the finest filipino love
story ever written.
 SYMBOLISMS
Lamp
• symbolizes a love that always remains, a love that never fades, and a love that gets dim for some time
but then burns and lights brightly like that of Tanabata's love for his wife.
MOVIES
• represents all the kind of temptation that Fas-ang has encountered.
CABBAGES/PLANTS
• this stands for the life of Tanabata, which when full of love, the plants were robust and flourishing but
when the love of his life had gone away, the plants rotted as his life gets wrecked.
 INSIGHTS
• True love means differently to every person.
• Love is never measured by how long the courting was, or how long have you
been together but by the trust and faithfulness of one to the other and how
much one is willing to accept the other.
• A person could be the life of another.
• Love conquers all.
 SOCIAL REALITY

• Adultery lives in every romantic relationship.

• Trust is difficult to earn but easy to lose.
• It is easy to forgive, but forgetting is always hard.
• Martyrs are real. They love their partners even if it's already painful.