I visited Montmartre in Paris in March in 1975. I found this painting by visiting all the galleries there. Warm love to scene is felt.

At the Bookstore Maruzen at Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Mr Osamu Tezuka was holding a event of signing and selling his books. As I was the last customer, he drew the picture courteously. By the way, he was always wearing a beret. At that time also, he was wearing a beret. Actually, was his head bold or not. I do not know it.

Mr. Tezuka Osamu

　I got to know a friend from Imphal in India while I was studying in India. I visited his home in Imphal and also visited Mr. RKCS. I bought a painting above from him. Imphal has an experience of invasion by Myanmar (Burma). This painting depicts the scene at that time. It is said that soldiers of Myanmar burnt chilies and smoked out hiding habitants. The smoke and fire are drawn in the painting. In the distance, people who are being taken by soldiers of Myanmar are drawn. As it is a past thing, my memory is not clear. But, it is said that soldiers of Myanmar took people of Imphal by boring a hole in hand and letting rope through the hand as drawn in the painting. Sight of rural land in far distance is just like the rice paddy in Japan. Very tasty rice is made in Imphal.
After I visited Mr. RKCS, he began to draw paintings which depict the fight of Japanese troop in Imphal in World War II. He sent photos of those paintings. So, I sent them to Yomiuri Newspaper and NHK (Nippon Hoso Kyokai (Japan Broadcasting Corporation)). NHK sent reporters there and broadcast it for about ten minutes in the news program in the evening. On the other hand, Yomiuri Newspaper published an article shown below. In the article, the title is "A Witness of Imphal Operation" and "Introducing Indian Painter." By the way, in the article, it is written "Former Japanese soldiers who survived the fight visit his studio sometimes." This is wrong. I am the first Japanese who visited his studio. It is said that former Japanese soldiers who survived the fight sometime visit not Mr. RKCS but other people in Imphal. It was reported in local mass media. In the painting in photo below, Japanese soldiers who visit local people and are receiving foods are depicted. Local people say "Japanese soldiers rushed to enemies holding bomb with them" or "They, staying at private house, slept in the daytime and fought at night." In the museum, bills of Japanese money that were left by Japanese soldiers are exhibited.

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Although the photo is not showing the painting well, the real painting is much more beautiful. This painting was drawn by the stone painting, the technique to make pigments by crushing stones. It was drawn very carefully in detail. I found this by visiting all souvenir shops in Leh in Ladakh. It seems to show the reincarnation of Lamaism (a sect of Buddhism).

In Shinjuku, a person in photo was selling the painting. He said that he was drawing paintings traveling around the world.

I visited Shanghai, Guilin, Xi'an, and Beijing and saw many souvenir shops. But all the paintings seemed to have been drawn for tourists by same painters and so I did not buy anyone. But, I found this painting in Palace Museum in Beijing.. According to the person in charge, it was the painting in the age of Qing Dynasty. Although it was not clear whether it was true or not, I bought this because warm mind was felt in it. Ume blossoms (flower of Japanese apricot) and a twig are drawn by skilled technique and breath of flower is felt.

　There is a vertical red light in the photo but this is due to camera not due to the painting. At the Green Park in London, free market is formed in weekend and citizens sell paintings or craft objects. I found this painting there. Sellers did not look like Anglo-Saxon but looked like Arabic people. They came to sell many paintings by truck. It was like a business. They said that they did not know the painter. But the painting was put in a fine frame. It could be guessed that the painting was in a home of rich person in an Arabian country and flowed to London. But it was not sure. It was like Millet in an Arabian country.