smiling faces

my father gave me these.
these are some pieces of designed cloth that his project team ordered to use for some advertisement projects in japan.
smily ebisu-sama (ebisu-sama is one of many japanese gods, a third child of izanagi).

my father founded a small advertisement design company by himself when he was 40, and he has been leading and working for it more than 20 years.

whenever i feel hopeless for my life, he always says that i could jump into a new thing at any time; that's what he did at the age of 40.
he is going into a new thing at 64 now: re-establishing and re-evaluating his life to fight against cancer.

he is actually very difficult person to deal with, although/because he is amazingly aggressive and positive soul, fought for what he valued and achieved many. and i appreciate who he is for me so much.

i never really used these pieces of cloth, so i thought somebody could have it. when mike, my friend, stopped by my apt, he saw these and he wanted these, so now these are in his collection of cloth pieces (i know he collects a lot).