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I wore this suit for nyugakushiki – the ceremony of entering school. Uniforms were not required until Junior High.
Dress codes are very strict. The handkerchief says my name. Haruyo is in nursery school. Our bags hold a change of shoes – sneakers – for indoors.
Site 07: Model Shop
School: Art Class and Dress Codes
site 07 photo 1.1
Haruyo and I, dressed for school
site 07 photo 1.2
Nursery school
I found the metal lunch box I took to nursery school! Usually my mom filled it with rice, cooked vegetables or meat, and sometimes eggs scrambled with soy sauce and sugar
(tamago yaki).
(see picture of my lunch box in
Site 06 of the Field Notes)
site 07 photo 1.3
My favorite 4th grade class: art.
Everyone drew Noriko Ihara, the
girl in front. I remember her name because it is written on one of the drawings! My best friend, Sotaro Kobayashi, and I took special art
lessons every Saturday. He became
a commercial artist.
site 07 photo 1.3 close up
boy on far right, Sotaro Kobayashi.
Second from left, Shigeru (me)
