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Half Title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Preface
Organization of captions and photographic credits
Part I : The Life of Nobuko in Photographs
1: Growing Up (1958–1970)
2: How We Met and Married (1970–1978)
3: With Our Daughter Yu-ko (1978–1986)
4: Our Dog Koro – the New Family Member (1986–1994)
5: Family, Calligraphy and Travel (1994–2010)
6: Calligraphy and Journeys in Sickness (2011–2015)
Maps Fig. 1. Nobuko’s Domestic Trips and Our Post-marriage Residences
CHRONOLOGY OF NOBUKO’S LIFE AND TIMES
Part II : Works by Nobuko
1: Calligraphy 1: ‘Sakura’ Exhibitions 2013/2015 & ‘Wonder’
2: Calligraphy 2: Other Exhibitions 2000–2010
3: Calligraphy 3: Études Published in Taigen (「太源」) Magazine 1995–2011
4: Calligraphy 4: Other Works 2005–2015
5: Embroidery 1974–1977
Part III : Nobuko’s Essays
Thoughts on the Socialist Party
2: My Illness [2]
5: The Patients’ Clubs
8: Jam
11: My Mother
15: Vegetables
17: A Child
20: My Husband [1]
23: Junior High School
25: University
28: What’s Right for Me [2]
30: The Big Snow
31: My Pension
33: An Annular Eclipse
34: The Actor Sugi Ryo- taro-
36: Kaibara Ekiken
39: Loneliness
41: Glasses
45: My Illness [4]
48: China
50: Swimming
52: Noh
55: The Neighbourhood Association
56: My Doctors [2]
58: Of Mice and Men
59: The Zoo
60: Rain
61: I Reflect Upon a Crime
Part IV : Remembrance
3: Like an Angel • Senda Minoru [1971]
4: Nobuko-san Who Never Stopped Smiling • Sakai Yoshio [1975]
6: Thank You for Everything • Iwata Yu - ko [1978]
9: Remembering as a Mother • Ii Kazuko [1991]
11: Nobuko-san’s Calligraphy Imbued Her Personality • Sawasaka Satomi [1995]
13: My Thanks to Mrs Kanasaka • Zhong Chong [2000]
15: Nobuko in Edinburgh • Jackie Cromarty [2005]
17: A Friendship Across Two Continents • James & Elisabetta McEvoy [2009]
19: An Ordinary but Remarkable Japanese Woman • Paul Norbury [2013]
20: Mrs Kanasaka and the Hope-for-life Exhibition • Hiraoka Sanae [2013]
21: In Memory of Nobuko • Andrew & Rosalind Reid [2014]
Postscript
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