Authors and Credits
The web pages linked to this page and located at this location (http://www.biz2wweb.com/grant) were written by the authors, Marie and Tom Grant.
We hold the copyright to all the text of these pages and the copyrights to the photographs are held by the photographers. In most cases the photographers are the authors. There are several notable exception::
The portrait of the authors on the home page was taken by Mr. Gyoshun Endo, a priest at the Nichiren Buddhist temple in Minobu, Japan. We discuss him, his family, and give credit to him for the photo in the text of Chapter 17: "Special People and Events." (http://www.biz2web.com/grant/c17.htm)
The image of Halong Bay was taken from a postcard purchased in Vietnam and the photographer is Hoang Duc Thur. No copyright information is listed on the card. We used this image because the day we spent in Halong Bay was cloudy and dark all day, and our photos could not capture the beauty of the bay.
The photo of our apartment building in Chapter 2 was sent to us by Hisae Marumo and the copyright is held by the photographer.
The initial image in Chapter 4 is taken from a brochure published by Yamanashi Prefecture, Tourism Division, Yamanashi Prefectural Government, 1-6-1 Marunouchi, Kofu, Yamanashi 400, Japan. No copyright statement could be found on the pamphlet.
The Shichigosan portrait of Mika in Chapter 7 was a gift from her mother and the copyright is held by the photographer.
The image of the kimono in Chapter 10 is taken from a pamphlet we received with admission at the museum. No photography was allowed in the museum and the image we used is the one that is used for publicity. We could find no copyright information on the pamphlet. However, the postcards we bought at the museum indicate that Itchiku Tsujigahana holds the copyright to those images. No photographer is listed (unless it is written in Japanese and we can't figure it out!)
In Chapter 12, the examples of brush writing in orange were done by Kaoru Ogawa and included with her permission. The examples of tensho and reisho were taken from a New Year's postcard that we received from friends in Japan. The initial image of the "rat stamp" is a Japanese stamp issued to celebrate the "Year of the Rat."
The initial image in Chapter 21 is scanned from a kite we bought at the kite festival in Hamamatsu. We bought this particular kite because it is a miniature of the kite we were delighted to help fly during the festival.
The photographer of the lotus from our pond was Ed Moon.
Any other pictures that we use on our site that were not taken by the authors are attributed within the body of text to the appropriate authors or photographers.
The animated
images are compliments of GIF Animator 3 (http://www.agag.com/)
The site is hosted by
Marie Grant's son Jim Harr at: http://www.biz2web.com.
Without his valuable input and prodding it never would have happened.
The site was developed through the Microsoft FrontPage 98 program and maintained through Microsoft FrontPage2003.
