April 30, 2015 "Mr. and Mrs. Osborn"

I can’t believe it’s already the end of April. In Japan a holiday season called Golden Week has started, but of course my husband, Nori, has no plan to have days off… I’m wondering how I and my kids shall spend 5-day vacation without Nori XD!

Today’s image is Mr. Bruce Osborn and his wife. He is photographing OYAKO, which means parents-children in Japanese, for 33 years, and his OYAKO project was made into a movie “OYAKO”. A project of OYAKO photo-shooting and the movie screening in Kitakyushu have been launched recently, and they came to Kitakyushu to meet its project members. Thus Nori came across a chance to photograph this fabulous couple!

■OYAKO Day  http://www.oyako.org/jp/oyakonohi/

Nori occasionally told me about Mr. Osborn and his project, saying “He is really a great photographer!” and showed me movies of his OYAKO photo-shooting on youtube. How nice he could have chance to see him in Kitakyushu! I will absolutely join OYAKO Day with my family for sure!!

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© Norihito Mitsunaga（光永 典人）
posted by Chie Mitsunaga

April 4, 2015

Time really flies!! In Japan we say "March runs away" because San-gatsu, which stands for March, sounds like Saru, which means to run away. For me, March DID ran away while taking care of my baby girl.

It started to rain yesterday and it is likely a long spring rain, which scatters the cherry blossoms. The end of March, we managed to enjoy cherry blossoms which were in full bloom! It was really beautiful, and our baby girl, Yui, was looking up at the flowers.

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© Norihito Mitsunaga（光永 典人）
posted by Chie Mitsunaga