Regardless of whether one is conscious of it or not, there is usually something that triggers a person to talk about the past. Even more so for a first-person narrative on the very personal events that took place between a main character and a “Mother" or a person of similar standing, there is probably an underlying cause propelling the narrator to tell the story. This paper aims to show one example that illustrates this theory through the examination of Kyoka Izumi\u27s Kecho (1897).Previous studies have assumed that the narrator “I" and the past “I" clearly separate. However, the distinction between the narrator “I" and the past “I" in Kecho becomes very vague at times, and it is difficult to make a clear distinction between the two. It c...