In the spring of 1942, my grandfather became the principal of a girls' high school that opened in Yanji, and the family moved from Harbin to Yanji. Yanji became Jiandao City in 1943. At the time of publication in 2019, I made a work by slipping my appearance when I wore my mother's yellow kimono in New Year 1976 into a family photo taken at their home room in Jiandao in New Year 1944.
　　　My grandparents and the eldest aunt family were in Jiandao at the time of the collapse of Manchuria in 1945. They fled Jiandao in the spring of 1946 and landed in Sasebo in the fall. I still don't know for sure what happened to the city of Jiandao between 1942 and 1946, and what conflicts my grandfather had.
　　　In September 2005, I flew into Yanji from Fushun. The building of the former Jiandao Girls' High School was used as a training school for Communist Party members. I made a work of Jiandao of 1942-1946 using the photos of the anniversary of the opening of the school in my grandfather's album and the photos in the fake Manchukuo photo book I bought in China.

"Mother at 19 and me at 23 years old at home in Jiandao,
Manchuria on New Year’s 1944"
scheduled for 150cm×199cm
computer-composed photograph
2019

"Grandfather with a sorrowful expression in front of Jiandao Girls’ High School, Jiandao, Manchuria, 1942-46"
110cm×400cm, computer-composed photograph, 2019
Source of old photos:
Photos of "Yanji Market Street in the Fake Manchukuo Period" and "Yanji City Street in the Fake Manchukuo Period" from "Fake Manchukuo Historical Illustrated" (Editor-in-chief, Zhang Chengjun, February 2003, Foreign Languages Press, Great Wall (Hong Kong) Cultural Publishing Co., Ltd.)