Sunday, October 26, 2025
© 2025 Pamela MacCarthy
All rights reserved
October Night in Nakagawara
1995
Black Ink, Oil Pastel, Watercolor
37.5 cm x 25 cm
10” X 14”
On Watercolor Paper
This painting captures
History and memories
So precious to me!
© 2025 Pamela MacCarthy
I painted this 30 years ago, this October...
The links above detail the history part of this painting,
but the memory is what I've never talked about.
My late husband Akio was with me,
and our (at that time) young son, Michio.
We decided to take a walk in the cool
October night, all three of us...
That was rare, as I often had singing gigs at night,
and Akio was mostly away teaching his music students.
I remember how Halloween was only an inkling
of a notion in Tokyo, then.
The wide-open rice field held recently
harvested and neatly arranged and hung bundles-
I still remember the earth-y scent of it.
In time that would be replaced with apartment buildings, etc...
But that night in late October, 1995,
we 3 walked and laughed together,
and that as well as
the moon and beautiful scenery,
is what inspired me to paint this,
the next day, from memory-
To capture that wondrous night and time together,
as a family, through this work.
It's in my private collection,
my takara.
Till Next Time... 
Labels: Akio Ueda, Artist Pamela MacCarthy, Autumn 2025, Haiku, Michio Yves Ueda, October Night in Nakagawara, Pamela MacCarthy's artwork 2025, Pamela MacCarthy's Meladramas, Watercolor Paintings
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Photo: Michio Yves Ueda
