Now on this first day of a New Year, I was just remembering the pass days and the old house where I spent childhood. One day I heard they had bitter cold and deep snow in Tokyo. Extreame cold for days with wind chill way, but I love the cold and the bright snow. I remember seeing the azure sky of a New Year in Tokyo. Also I remember flying a kite an alleyway behind my house with my uncle. A scene of deep snow overlapped the azure sky of a New Year. Whenever deep snow hide in the town, I remember the days in the distant past of my life. When I was very young or when I was a teen-ager and spending solitary days, the town was covered with snow calmly. Although I left in a snowscape alone, I'm still waiting for a first snow flake appearing here Tokyo.

Noriko Kawamura (January 1st 2008)