These photographs trace our family history — my parents in their youthful days, my brothers and me through different years. They remind me how time weaves together the ordinary and the extraordinary.
My father in front of Antwerp Museum, Brussels in 1936
My mother in white gloves in Yokohama in 1935
The three of us, Isao, Takashi and me in Yokohama in 1966
Isao and me in front of the Nanrei Zoo, Shinkyo in 1943
My uncle, Kunimitsu "Papa" in Manchuria
My father and our cousins with Takashi and me in Ibaraki
My mother in Tokyo in 1939
My father in Honolulu with his co-workers of Nihon Yusen shipping company in 1935
My uncle Kunimitsu's wife {"Mama") with their two children in Ibaraki
My parents with mother holding Isao on a walk beside Suwa Lake in Nagano, Japan, before leaving for Manchuria. The old man on right is my mother's father. My parents discovered that this was made to be a postcard.