I went out of the room and chose two poets as "objects". One is Harumi Kawaguchi, who worked for a trading company at the time and was a dealer for buying and selling yen and dollars. The other is Toshiharu Kishi, who raises and lives dairy cows deep in the mountains of Yamagata. I sketched their lives and had them read their own poems.
Harumi Kawaguchi
Toshiharu Kishi
I went out of the room and chose two poets as "objects". One is Harumi Kawaguchi, who worked for a trading company at the time and was a dealer for buying and selling yen and dollars. The other is Toshiharu Kishi, who raises and lives dairy cows deep in the mountains of Yamagata. I sketched their lives and had them read their own poems.
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