essay by ANNA DUBOSC photo by RICHARD WONG Anna Dubosc, a Paris-based writer, is the daughter of Japanese poet Kumiko Muraoka. When avant-garde filmmaker Chris Marker traveled to Tokyo in 1964, commissioned by the French Government to create a film about the Olympic Games, he instead made a movie about Kumiko, titled ‘The Koumiko Mystery’. Here, Anna Dubosc writes about her mother’s love-hate relationship with Japan, alongside photos taken by kumiko’s friend Richard Wong. I never knew how to write my mother’s name. The exact transcription is Kumiko. That’s how she spelled her first name, even at the risk of it being mispronounced. In my early writings, I used that spelling but later switched to Koumiko. My mother wrote and spoke to us in French, in her own poetic and ambiguous way. I was always wary of that ambiguity, afraid my mother would remain foreign, elusive, unpronounceable —…