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In 1984, my former husband and I welcomed a young Japanese woman into our home as part of a cultural exchange program, which I believe was called The Cultural Homestay Institute and which brought a group of young Japanese women and men to our small town in the state of Washington in August of that year. A friend of hers from the group visited our home and saw the untitled painting I was working on. He said that it reminded him of a float from the Gion Festival.
I tried to create a link to the Wikipedia entry for the Gion Festival, but got an error message:
Your HTML cannot be accepted: Tag is not closed.
As far as I can tell, the tag was closed. Anyone else had trouble like this?
1 comment:
How odd -- let's see if this works.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Gion_Matsuri
Another beautiful work, BTW.
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