3 - With Our Daughter Yūko (1978–1986)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 May 2022
Summary
On the evening of 7 April 1978, our heaven-sent giftarrived. Mother and child came safely through adifficult birth and we named our new daughter Yūkousing a character for the Yū part that means‘gentle’ or ‘affectionate’ which is the way we hopedshe would grow up. She grew quickly, the opposite tothe pattern you usually see in a maternity recordbook, and brought us happiness and new dreams.Nobuko added a note to the photograph we took of herwhen she was three months old, which made thisprecious moment all the brighter. In her teensNobuko seems to have had thoughts of being astory-teller and maybe there was a touch of that inwhat she put in that small space. That's notsomething I can ever know now, but in her primaryschool essays she put this as an ambition. AtNittazuka in Fukui we passed many happy hours thatwe wouldn't have had without our daughter.
Altogether our time in Fukui where we really put downroots, what with my work, and then the two years welived in Sabae, lasted for twelve years until March1987.
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- The Life of NobukoThe Words, Works and Pictures of an Ordinary but Remarkable Japanese Woman, 1946-2015, pp. 14 - 35Publisher: Amsterdam University PressPrint publication year: 2022