My mother started teaching home economics in elementary school and divorced her husband who came back from Siberia. And she fell in love with my father, whom she met in elementary school, and remarried him in 1951. She aimed to be an independent woman who could balance work and family in the free air after the war, but ...
　　　I traveled from Nara to Kobe in the summer of 2007 for "Arrival after War". I visited several ponds in search of the pond where my mother and father dated in a photo, but could not identify it. So I added photos of my young-day waterside date and I had a work where my mother and I dated my father.

"My mother, or me, with my father on a date at an anonymous pond in Nara, Kobe or Kyoto in 1950"
148cm×400cm, computer-composed photograph, 2007

"Mother and Father getting married at Ikuta Shrine, Kobe on May 5, 1951"
41cm×54cm, computer-composed photograph, 2007