Sorry for the lack of posts recently, but I think I have a pretty good excuse – my wife gave birth on Monday night. I’ve been in her hometown in Nara Prefecture, and I have to say, it’s been about the best week of my life.
I was staying at her parent’s house, and every morning I’d walk about 25 minutes to the hospital to visit my wife and new son.
I can’t describe what a wonderful feeling it was to walk under the blue skies past these amazing old houses and rice fields on the way to spend the day with my wife and new baby.
This is the little guy I was going to see, my new son Matthew.
September 14, 2009 at 6:41 am
Congratulations.
September 14, 2009 at 9:30 am
Omedatou gozaimasu!!!
Little Mathew is so adorable.
Hope both mother and son are doing well!
September 14, 2009 at 10:06 am
Congratulations! All the best to you and your family.
September 14, 2009 at 10:29 am
Congratulations! soak up every minute you can with him. He’ll be grown and gone before in the blink of an eye.
The countryside looks wonderful. Such a contrast to Tokyo.
September 15, 2009 at 9:29 pm
Congratulations!
September 16, 2009 at 10:41 am
Congratulations,
Looks like really beautiful surroundings to bring your son into the world, I think you made the right decision to all got to Nara.
Best wishes
Will
September 16, 2009 at 1:56 pm
Congratulations! Yeah to baby Matthew and blue skies.
September 18, 2009 at 12:20 am
Baby Matthew is so cute. Thanks for posting the pixes. I love the Japanese countryside too. Live 5 minutes from the satoyama.
September 18, 2009 at 3:15 am
Nara! What an incredibly beautiful and spiritual place for your baby to be born. I congratulate you, and I feel certain your child will add to the beauty and spirit of the place even as he breaths in the air (aroma of sugar cane from the fields and tiny wafts of incense from the temples) and is held in your arms.
I lived in Okinawa for six years and visited Kyoto and other places on the Mainland, but it was when I got to Nara that I felt, deeply, I was in Japan, in the country that I’d really come to experience. The people there were so open and so peaceful, and the deer were everywhere and unharmed.
I know you know you’re lucky in many ways, but I just wanted to send you my endorsement of that luck and my thanks to you for the beautiful photos.
Carlene
September 18, 2009 at 3:16 am
I forgot to say, I don’t quite know how I got onto this blog today (I am not a blogger), but I’m glad I did. Really made me happy to see Nara and your son and read your comments. Carlene
September 18, 2009 at 5:19 am
Congratulations for your baby…:)
September 18, 2009 at 8:31 am
you´re son is so beautiful!! congratulations, may he live in good health.
all the best.
September 18, 2009 at 10:00 am
looks like a great place to have a family
September 18, 2009 at 2:26 pm
Very beautiful. So serene.
September 18, 2009 at 7:08 pm
Congratulations! All the best to all of you :)
September 18, 2009 at 7:39 pm
I love the pictures
September 19, 2009 at 11:22 am
Congratulations! What a beautiful day and beautiful path leading to see your son!
September 27, 2009 at 2:27 pm
Was in Nara in 2007; your sweet Matthew looks like my grandson Taiga who was born in Takayama in 2007. Oh, how I loved my trip to Japan in 2007 – Nara, Takayama, Kamakura, Osaka, Kyoto, rural Japan. Would love to return one day to see southern parts of Japan. Congrats on your beautiful son!
October 5, 2009 at 5:50 am
Congratulations! Not sure about the spelling, but ‘kawa iyii’–how cute!
October 18, 2009 at 2:51 am
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October 29, 2009 at 5:27 am
Congratulations, even if I am a little late! My family-in-law also comes from a small village in the south of the Nara prefecture. This is a place I really liked in Japan, between the plain and the mountains, where Japan as a country started to exist…
Hope you will still continue to fill your amazing blog!