I received numerous gifts and messages for this occasion. And a longtime, good friend sent me a fantastic assortment of beers. I wonder if that is because she has known me for a long time.
I wrote “Sequel to my dream starts here, now” on a cloth towel of high quality that one of the visitors at the Mother-daughter exhibition presented me. However, maybe this method of using isn’t proper, I wonder.
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On my birthday last month, friends gave me variety of sweets, including some western confectioneries. The choice by one of my long-time friends never misses “bingo!”.
Secretly moist cookies/
Birds are disappearing/
Far into the clouds/
Calligraphy and translation by Chio
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This landscape painting of an upper branch stream of the Huang He (the Yellow River) in China was a gift to me by my late calligraphy teacher, which he painted while he was traveling there.
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I quite suddenly received a variety of gifts; baked goods, meat boiled down in soy, rice crackers and what not. There was nothing special about the day. Only, she sends me something good and special from time to time.
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Painting of pears/
Put up on a wall of a/
Confectionary shop/
Calligraphy and translation by Chio
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The photo shows gifts from my long-time good friend from high school days and her pretty daughter.
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Masks are just what I wanted right now and, moreover, they look so stylish! In the envelope I found other cute, delightful things and a card. Supreme winter gifts! I have no idea how to express my happiness of receiving the presents.
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I did these as gifts to be enclosed in a letter to someone. For, people usually associate folding fans with good luck because they spread out wide toward the end.
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