form as the Iwanami Film Library.) His most famous quote is probably "Snowflakes are letters sent from heaven." He returned to this idea several times, first in his 1939 documentary film Snow Crystals, and again in a handwritten note in a copy of his 1954 book Snow Crystals: Natural and Artificial. Personal life Nakaya married twice. His first wife was the daughter of , a literary historian who taught at Tokyo Imperial University. She died in Japan of diphtheria while Nakaya was studying at King's College. He remarried in 1932. His daughter Fujiko Nakaya, born in 1933, is an artist known for her fog sculptures. He had two other daughters, Sakiko and Miyoko Nakaya. In his later life, Nakaya was an accomplished sumi-e artist. Bibliography (In Japanese, with readings, vocabulary notes, translations, and glossary.) See also Egg of Li Chun References External links e-texts of Nakaya's works at Aozora bunko The Japanese Society of Snow and Ice, founded in 1939 by Nakaya et al. Japan - The Snow Crystal Tour—by Kenneth G. Libbrecht, January, 2002 Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University Nakaya Ukichiro museum of snow and ice 1900 births 1962 deaths Japanese physicists People from Ishikawa Prefecture University of Tokyo alumni Kyoto University alumni Alumni of King's College London Academic staff of Hokkaido University Riken personnel