Images by chapter
In the coming days … months … I’ll be adding items mentioned in my book, plus others that I hope will give you a sense of the Japan I love.
If you’d like to see general images, check out Images of Japan: General.
Welcome to my work in progress! I’m building this airplane while flying it (per usual).
Chapter 1: Moonstruck
Touring Akiyoshido cave with my host sisters and friends in 1986
Chapter 3: Letters from a Dream World
Akiyoshidai, the karst plateau near Shuho-cho, 1995
The Shuho-cho Board of Education office, 1996
Chapter 8: More Than a One-horse Town
Posing with the Shuho-cho koto club at the international music festival, 1994
Chapter 11: Love at First
Chapter 19: Straightforward as Sunshine
Learning to write calligraphy at Kama elementary school, 1995
Smiling with about half the students at little Yashiro elementary school, 1996
Learning how to plant sweet potatoes, 1995
Chapter 21: A Cat, a Car, Another Contract
Kimono-clad members of the koto club, 1996
Chapter 23: Worlds Collide
Introducing my mom (to my left) and Kay (behind her) to my colleagues at the Board of Education, 1995
Chapter 30: Fireflies
Hanami — cherry blossom viewing — with colleagues at Hagi castle grounds, 1996
Chapter 36: Home Again
Flying into my hometown of Moorhead, Minnesota-Fargo, North Dakota, 1995
Chapter 38: On My Own
“Helping out” with rice harvest, 1995
Chapter 42: The Change of Seasons
Visiting my host grandma, mom and sister in Hagi, 1996
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