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I was named after my Suehiro grandfather, Shigejiro. My father is wearing a school uniform. My grandfather wears a formal kimono with a silk
coat. The shot was taken in a photographer’s studio.
Site 13: Bus Ride Part II
Dad and Mom, young.
site 13 photo 1.1
Ichiro Miyagawa (left), my father, as a freshman at
Nagoya University, with his father, Shigejiro Miyagawa
site 13 photo 1.2
Mitsuko Yamada (my mother) as a baby, only 8 months old, with her parents, Tatsu Go-Ro Yamada and Nami, both 24 years old. My Suka grandfather is wearing yukata, a summer kimono made of cotton.
