Kamakura, Mar 2018


One Two Three






"When you hear music, after it's over, it's gone in the air. You can never capture it again." - Eric Dolphy
from "Miss Ann", Eric Dolphy / Last Date, 1964


Just click the shutter to the moment in the life of my family.
Definitely I heard the kind of music while clicking these moments, unposed, unstaged moments exists there.
It's like Jazz, the improvisations in Jazz. If I missed it, it’s gone in the air, I can never capture it again, as Eric Dolphy said.


I lost my father who had stage four lung cancer in 2017 (Dad with Lung Cancer).
When I organized my father’s belongings at my parents’ house I found so many pictures of my childhood that my mother took—most of these I had never seen before.

from my mother's archives
from my mother's archives
from my mother's archives
from my mother's archives
from my mother's archives
from my mother's archives
from my mother's archives
from my mother's archives

 from my mother's archives.

After that, I'm summarizing these photographs as an on-going project to show my mother who are alone in the parents house, and above all, I'm trying to increase the time of parent-child communication through these photographs with my three daughters, and to improve their self-esteem.

They show me such beautiful moments, I think it’s a gift, the gift of a beautiful moment they gave, these extreme gifts appear in front of me, I can’t help but catch them.
Capturing the moment is the same as street photography. I try to capture it from a viewpoint beyond the personal space to share it with viewers like street photography.

If someone ask me "Are these photos then art, or life?", I want to say that ‘life is art’. I never called my photography ‘art’, but definitely, they show me what I feel art to be.



Yumeji, PIC Guam Hotel 9F, Guam, Aug 2011
Yumeji, Sagami Sansen Park, Ebina, Aug 2013
Yumeji and Cherry, at home, Kamakura, Feb 2014
Cherry, Yumeji and Kotoyo, at home, Kamakura, Dec 2014
Yumeji, Zushi Beach, Zushi, Feb 2015
Yumeji, Hinamatsuri, Myohonji Temple, Kamakura, Mar 2015
Kotoyo, Kailua, Hawaii, Mar 2016
Yumeji and Kotoyo, Kamakura, Sep 2016
Kotoyo and Yumeji, Shichigosan, at home, Kamakura, Nov 2016
Hikono and Kotoyo, at home, Kamakura, Feb 2017
Kotoyo, Chika, and Hikono, at home, Kamakura, Dec 2017
At home, Kamakura, Mar 2018
Myohonji Temple, Kamakura, June 2018
Hikono, the first experience of Pizza, at home, Kamakura, Sep 2018
At home, Kamakura, Nov 2018
Kotoyo and Hikono, at home, Kamakura, Nov 2018
Kamakura, Dec 2018
New Year's Day, Kamakura, Jan 2019
At home, Kamakura, Oct 2019
Kotoyo and Hikono, Kamakura, Nov 2019
On the train, Yokohama, Dec 2019
Setsubun, at home, Kamakura, Feb 2020
Kamakura, Mar 2020
Chigasaki, Apr 2020
Around Suyama Nobori 1.5th Station of Mt Fuji, Shizuoka, Apr 2020
Hikono, at home, Kamakura, July 2020
At home, Kamakura, Sep 2020
Kotoyo, Shichigosan, at home, Kamakura, Nov 2021
After Xmas, at home, Kamakura, Dec 2021
Hikono and Kotoyo, in front of 2022 Japanese Zodiac tiger drew by Yumeji, Kamakura, Jan 2022

Setsubun, at home, Kamakura, Feb 2020