「モネのあしあと」原田マハさん作

マハさんってどんな方なんだろうと思って、youtubeでインタビューなどを見ました。とっても愉快で話が面白い方なんですね。小学生の頃にピカソの絵を見て、何て下手な絵を描く人なんだと思い、ピカソをライバル視。21歳の時、ライバルだと思っていたピカソ展へ行き、とんでもないくら絵が上手い芸術家だと思い、前言撤回。でも、ルソーの絵は誰が見ても下手だと言い張る。この出会いがきっかけで、ルソーの絵や人生…

ジヴェルニーの食卓

Maha Harada is a Japanese writer. She used to work as a curator at some museums, so she has written novels about arts and lives of artists. I have been engrossed in reading her books during this su…

国際結婚について

インスタでいつもお世話になっているソング・里菜さんに、今回は「旦那様との馴れ初めや結婚、国際結婚」についてインタビューしました。 前回のインタビューでは、里菜さんの紹介、イギリス生活や英語の勉強の仕方についてお話を伺いました。こちらも素敵なお話を聞くことができたので、もしよかったら読んでみてください。 また、里菜さんも私のインタビュー記事を書いてくれました。普段自分のことはあまり話しませんが…

“If All the World Were” written by Joseph Coelho

Heart-warming, beautiful picture book about a girl and her dad💌 They spent all the seasons and smiled together, but her grandad wasn’t with her anymore. While she was seeing some things that her gr…

“The Travelling Cat Chronicles” by Hiro Arikawa🐈

Laughed and cried a little.  Lovely, touching story about Satoru and a cat called Nana, which means seven in Japanese. This story tells you the value of bonds and how these bonds create a posi…

“The Smile Shop” by Satoshi Kitamura ☺️

Excellent picture book to teach the importance of being kind and the power that smiles hold 📚  The boy was walking in the market excitedly wondering what to buy with his saved money! Foods? Mu…

“Junkland -The Hoarding- book one” by Patrick Johns

It is an adventurous book about a boy called Jahrys, who trains himself hard to become a knight someday. He thinks that heroes are not fearless, but might be scared and still believe in themselves …