| Tue. 25th Sept. "MIKADO" |
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Kata's father made a trip up to Ukishima specially to watch the video of "the Mikado", a present to him from my mother, Ann-chan. He rehearsed his part in the chorus enjoying a nostalgia trip for his student days when he was to be in the chorus for a professional production over 50 years ago, but the producer had forgotten to get copyright so the production was closed down by the police! (KT) |
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| Mon.24th Sept. "Shogun- Kawaguchi Autumn Festival Day 3" |
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Kawaguchi village again to see the finale of the festival. Emily was pleased to see her school friend Ikue chan - I wish Emily would join, but Ikue chan has regailed her with tales of rehearsal sessions at crack of dawn on Sundays and holidays! (KT) |
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| Sun.23rd Sept. "Fox Dance- Kawaguchi Autumn Festival Day 2" |
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Kawaguchi Festival again.
Sean has decided that he wants to join the group of boys who do the fox dance apparently he can join once he starts school next year. Emily also thought this would suit her better than the groups she has been invited to join, but unfortunately no girls in this one. (KT)
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| Sat.22nd Sept. "Matsuri Dancers- Kawaguchi Autumn Festival Day 1" |
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The Kawaguchi Autumn Festival started today. We all went to see the main parade in the evening, but ofcourse Emily and Sean were most interested in the candy floss, and caught more goldfish at the stalls to add to the tank at home. (KT) |
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| Thurs.20th. Sept. "Sean's 6th birthday" |
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| Uncle Graham & Aunty Sheena sent a dinosaur balloon which now sleeps in Sean's bed. |
Action man's racing car from Ann-chan arrived in the post later. |
volunteers piecing together the bits of lego while Sean rips open the last of his presents |
Star Wars lego (again)! |
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| Sean and the first of his party guests |
Sean invited all 15 of his kindergarten class mates, but as they had their annunal day out at the zoo today only 4 had the stamina for a party too. |
"just looks like a Power book!" (HK) - Kata's wishfull thinking for his own birthday present. (KT) |
Far too much cake for 6 children - so they all took some home for their families. (KT) |
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| Tue.18th Sept. "Stone carving day at Numakunai Primary School" |
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First a presentation of the research done by 2 different groups on sculpture in Iwate town. The group who had interviewed me last week did a real number on me! Weird to hear 50 children chanting my name and various facts about my career so far.
About 100 of the 3rd and 4th year students then tried carving soap stone. (KT)
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Kata barbecuing sardines sent from his family in Kesenuma. (KT) |
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| Sat.15th Sept. "Back in Ukishima one day late via Singapore" |
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After the terrible terrorist attacks in America I was very relieved that Kata managed to get home from Scotland safely yesterday after only 24 hours delay. I am very impressed with the airlines which although they are in such chaos and had to reroute him from Amsterdam to Singapore to Narita they got him here only one day late, and his luggage only 2 days late.
Emily and Sean playing with the Swing ball Kata brought back from Scotland inside his roll of drawings. (KT)
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| Tue. 11th.Sept. "take me home, country road....." |
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Drove back to Edinburgh. First stopped to see the Aberdeen Castlegate which Peacock printmakers are hoping to turn into an arts scentre within the next few years, it's huge. Saw some beautiful heather on the road. Then to Edinburgh printmakers to return the frames I had hired from them, and back to Kate's parents house and pack up the drawings to take back to Japan tomorrow morning. (HK) |
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| Mon. 10th. Sept. "Talk at Lumsden Primary School" |
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to compliment the completion of his residency at the Scottish Sculpture Workshop in Lumsden (a small viullage in Aberdeenshire) Kata did a workshop with 20 children from Lumsden Primary School (pictured here with the sculpture he made for the Lumsden Sculpture Walk before any of them were born!).
After my talk about sculpture they asked me questions about sculpture and Japan, including Pokemon and Digimon. We had a lot of fun. (HK)
Meanwhile I was doing the equivalent with a group of Japanese children at Ukishima Sculpture Studio which was great fun too. (KT)
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| Sun.9th. Sept. "George's garden" |
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| Sat.8th. Sept. Photographing "Nostalgia", and visit to "Glover House" with Lisa |
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photographing the installation sculpture I made during the residency at the Scottish Sculpture for my exhibition at Peacock visual arts Gallery in Aberdeen |
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Our Japanese friend Lisa Keiko Kirton who is married to a Scot and lives in Aberdeen took me to see Thomas Glover's house, and a couple of galleries.（ＨＫ） |
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| Fri. 7th. Sept. "To Fish an' Chips with Prof. Chengi Kuo |
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Arrived back in Aberdeen for the last days of my exhibition.
3 years ago Professor Chengi Kuo organised the commissioning of the protrait bust of Henry Dyer which Kate made for Tokyo University and Strahclyde University. (When they actually met at the presentation ceremony in the Science Exhibition at the Tokyo Forum they discovered that Prof. Kuo had worked with Kate's father 15 years before at Strathclyde Univ.)
Prof Kuo and his colleague came to see my exhibition and then the 3 of us went out for the great British delicacy fish & chips.（ＨＫ）
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