After retirement, we made our first visit back to Japan in 2004, as members of the Rochester NY Sister City delegation to Pacific Flora in Hamamatsu. Afterwards, we returned to Odawara to meet our former neighbors, at an Asia Center party in Odawara. Attendees included Eguchi-san (who’d introduced Ann to the art of Japanese Flower Arranging —- ikebana, 生花 ), and to her many friends including Hayashi-san, Arashi-san, Kameda-san, Atake-san, Sadamatsu-san, Shiokawa-san, Ishida-san, Kato-san, and Takahashi-san.
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