（写真は「大野一雄フェスティバル2006」での祝賀会の模様。写真；全て池上直哉）
Kazuo Ohno was celebrated his 100year's old birthday on October 27th 2007
(Photos by Naoya Ikegami at Kazuo Ohno Festival 2006)
□世界中から、沢山のお祝いの言葉をメールにて頂きました。一部をご紹介させていただきます。(差出人名はプライバシー保護のため公表していません）この場を借りてお礼申し上げます。
We introduce a part of ｃelebrating messages by mail. (for privacy we don't release the name of senders)
Dear Mr. Kazuo Ohno,
as one of your countless fans i would like to send you best birthdaywishes from vienna.
"When you dance I wish you A wave o' the seas, that might ever do Nothing but that; move still, still so, and own No other function." (shakespeare)
Ohno Sensei HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!
and to all involved in his Birthday-Celebration my thoughts and best wishes from Berlin.
Dear Mr. Kazuo OHNO and Yoshito OHNO
I saw your performance "Water Lily" in Taipei 12 years ago, in 1994.
I was very touched by your dancing.
You brought me inner peace and showed me the transcendental spirit of artists. So amazing!
Happy birthday to great 100-year-old Mr. Kazuo OHNO.
Dear Mr. Ohno,
my very best congratulations to you today!
Celebrating your birthday *100Years* old, such a extraordinary age! Luck for you!!!!
Hopely the best for you from N.M. who dances in your studio in the winter 1999 and will come back one day!
Dear Mister Kazuo Ohno,
I feel a deep desire to congratulate you for your birthday!
I am very thankfull for your work in the dance-world.
It inspires me in a great way and it makes me very happy to know that a person like you exists.
I ask you to receive my very best wishes for your health and good spirits, for continuous humor, happiness and lightness in all your concerns.
Dancer in Basel, Switzerland
Dear Kazuo Ohno,
Thank you for the 100 years of splendour and beauty that you have given us!