“My grandmother and her cat are always together.
This is the photobook captured the everyday life of my grandmother, Misao who bends her self to the fields work with her cat Fukumaru.
Under the sun, everyday is a good day. Another good day, Fukumaru"
- Miyoko Ihara

In 1999 Miyoko Ihara started to take photographs of her grandmother, Misao. Miyoko wanted to leave a living proof of her.
One day, her grandmother found an odd-eyed kitten in the shed. She named the cat "Fukumaru" in hope that "God of fuku(good fortune) comes and everything will be smoothed over like maru(circle)".
It has been 8 years since they first met.
The grandmother whose hearing became weak and Fukumaru who has hearing disabilities are always looking into each other's eyes and feeling warmth each other.
When the white cloud float across the blue sky, the grandmother and her cat go out in the field.


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Miyoko Ihara (1981) is a Japanese photographer. After graduating from the Nippon Photography Institute in 2002 she studied under the photojournalist Higuchi Kenji.
Miyoko Ihara lives and works in Japan.