祖母が逝ってしまった。  My grandma passed away on the 25th April at the age of 87 after a month of being hospitalised.  Until mid March, she came to ou...

We had a field sketch day at Misato Park on the 8th April and drew the colony of Great Cormorants.  4月8日にみさと公園でフィールドスケッチ会を行った。公式報告は こちら 。 前...

The next day on the Shikinejima island was very sunny and it was rather hot.  We hiked all day along the trails on the west coast.   島での二日目は...

We had a little trip to Shimoda and ferry across to Shikinejima island for little one's spring break.   地元の駅から見れる一番かっこいい電車、サフィール踊り子号。1日に...

Two of my picture books are going international!  子育てとコロナで完全に国内に閉じこもった気分でいたのだが、わたしの絵本が外に飛び出してくれていて、とてもうれしい。  "When the Sakura Bloom,...

I was invited by  Ms. Sue Conolly,   a wonderful librarian at the Canadian International School in Tokyo, and did a school visit to talk abo...

Some recent field sketches. Dusky Thrush was seen in flock perching on trees.  This season, they still tend to stay on trees at the momen...