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<\/a>556. Grandpa’s Lecture Watercolor Painting by Mariko Irie<\/p><\/div>\n
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Today is March 3, Hinamatsuri: http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hinamatsuri<\/a> in Japan.<\/p>\n They celebrate to pray for Girls\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 happiness and health.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n My best memory of Hinamatsuri was when I was in the preschool. I was born and raised in Tokyo. Almost the end of the second war, Tokyo was attacked from the air. People lost houses. But when I was in preschool, we had a house. We were not starving, but still not much things to have.<\/p>\n My preschool\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s director, Tosi Fukuchi was a great personality. She talked softly, slowly and sweet always. She had never raised voice. And she was an authority of Children’s literature. She red great children\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s books, showing good children\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s movies and moppet shows for us<\/p>\n Anyway, she asked us to bring our own dolls for Hinamatsuri. So we brought our lovely dolls. Some of them were handmade. Teachers created stairs from boxes for oranges or apples and put cloth over it and put our dolls and plum flowers.<\/p>\n We were so happy, because my friends\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 lovely dolls and mine were on the stage to look at. And we sung songs and danced in front of that display.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Now I know that she educated us how happy we can be if we use our imagination and creation.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This painting is a one of my \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Art Lovers\u00e2\u20ac\u009d series. I love this scene very much. Their relationship is so respect each other. Today is March 3, Hinamatsuri: http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hinamatsuri in Japan. They celebrate to pray for Girls\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 happiness and … Continue reading