"Mother, age 21, selling steamed buns at 21 Kobai-cho, Yamato-ku, Mukden, China, 1946"
230cm×307cm, computer-composed photograph, silver leaf on Mother's image, 2007
Sources of old photographs:
"Mukden Station" and "Housewife of the Pioneer Team" from "Separate Volume History Reader, Senki Series 67, Manchurian Old Photograph Book" (Written by Pacific War Study Group, August 2004, Shinjinbutsuourai-sha),
"Hataho Immigrants Headquarters" from the record book "If the sun setting on Mt. Masan had a heart" (Edited by Sogi Ohira, published by Hataho-kai in March 1970),
"Chiyoda Street, Mukden" from the photo book "Manshubojo" (edited by Manshikai, October 1973, Kenkosha),
"Soviet Soldier" from a camera shot of the VHS video "Manchurian Newsreel 10, The End of Manchuria, Soviet Army Shooting" (1995, Tensharp)

"The Soviets invaded Manchuria on August 9, 1945 (from Soviet films)"　　100cm×500cm, computer-composed photograph, 2006
Source of old photographs: Camera shot of VHS video "Manchuria Newsreel 10, The End of Manchuria-Soviet Army Shooting Edition" (1995, Ten Sharp)

　　　On August 9, 1945, Soviet troops invaded across the Soviet-Manchurian border. My mother's husband was taken to Siberia, and my mother fled from Shitou to Mukden. I don't know the details of the process now, but I remembered a fragmentary episode of the escape that my mother told me when I was in elementary school. While hunting for materials, I came across a Soviet military film. I shot and collaged the footage of the Soviet invasion to imagine the situation of mothers.
　　　My mother arrived at her relative's house in front of Mukden Station. Around January 1946, my mother sold mantou in front of Mukden Station and earned cash. In September 2005, I visited former Kobai-cho, Yamato-ku, Shenyang, China, and made one work using the photographs I took and the old photographs I collected. Unfortunately, I didn't have a photo of my mother of that time, so I put her shape of silver foil on the finished print.