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Hiroko Koshino will show up in "Beautiful Life" section of the popular TV show "Meringue no Kimochi" which will be broadcasted from 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm on Saturday, September 24th, on Nippon Television networks. Her working in the office, residence in Tokyo, and talk with the reporter Mr. Yoshio Kojima will be shown. We hope you enjoy.
The house Hiroko Koshino was born and grew up, was renovated as a shop & gallery. It is expected to be the most attractive spot in Kishiwada, where the drama "Carnation" is located in. The exterior has been recreated as it was when Ayako ran her boutique 60 years ago, and inside on the first floor, original goods and sweets of the three sisters (three daughters of Ayako: Hiroko, Junko, and Michiko) as well as local speciality, and on the second floor, Ayako's mementos and photos are exhibited. We hope you will come by and feel the original Hiroko.
Place: 16-11 Goken-machi, Kishiwada City (phone: 072-422-0243)
Open from 10:00 am through 6:00 pm, seven days a week except for the year end and new year
In the weekend of September 17th and 18th, annual Danjiri Matsuri Festival was held in Kishiwada, Osaka. This festival is famous for its valiancy of the festival floats running very fast around the town, and Hiroko Koshino's late mother, Ayako Koshino, model of the heroine in the upcoming NHK drama "Carnation," loved this festival very much. In the town of Kishiwada, where the excitement reaches a fever pitch just before start of the drama, festival floats kept running and moving during these two days. From the house Hiroko grew up, many guests enjoyed watching those floats running in front of the house. On Saturday, 17th, as actress Ms. Machiko Ono joined, the heat reached into high gear.
Drama "Carnation" will be broadcasted for six months from Monday, October 3rd, at 8:00 am every weekday, on NHK.
At one of the seminars scheduled for the "LIVING & DESIGN" international exhibition from September 14th until 17th in Osaka, Hiroko will give a talk show with Mr. Toshiyuki Kita, world-famous industrial designer, from 4:30 pm on Friday, September 16th, at the Intex Osaka. For details and application, please access to the "LIVING & DESIGN" website below.
