古住崇は家族思いの父親であり、奥様を大事にする男性でもありました。

優しく、熱く、強く、知識も豊富で、人の話もよく聞き、的確なアドバイスもしていた。

チームメイト、友達、同僚、共同創業者として彼以上の人に出会うことは無いでしょう。

Takashi Kosumi was a loving father and husband to his family.

Kind, warm, helpful, dedicated, resourceful, great listener and partner, just the greatest colleague, co-founder, teammate and friend anyone could ever hoped for.

He will be missed greatly, may he rest in peace.

古住君は最近、バスケを上手になりたいと思っている小学校の男の子に教えていました。

Recently, Kosumi-kun met someone who had a son that really wanted to get better at basketball. Kosumi-kun immediately volunteered to help this boy and became an inspiration to him.

言葉は厳しくても優しく、古住君は教えるのが上手だったよね。

He was blunt in his words, but they were always kind and he really was good at teaching others.

バスケットボールを教えている写真と古住君と娘二人の写真は男の子のお父様が撮った写真です。
The photos above of Kosumi-kun teaching the boy basketball and of him with his daughters were taken by the boy’s father. As for the third photo Kosumi-kun had a great smile and he was a frequent target of mine whenever I picked up a new lens or camera.

僕も昔、古住君からのアドバイスでとにかくデフェンスを頑張ろう、いっぱい走ろう、と思った。
Kosumi-kun inspired me to really work hard on defense and to run a lot when playing basketball (and futsal for that matter).

ストレートに「大輔さんバスケ下手だけど」と言っていたけど、言おうとしている事の内容は優しくってわかりやすかった。去年言われたのは「大輔さん、無駄な走りがなくなったね」、嬉しかった。
He was blunt in his assessment of my basketball skills,”You’re really not that good at basketball,” but they were still words of kindness and what he said really made sense (how I can still be a net positive on the court even with my limited skills). Last year when we were playing ball, he told me,”you run a lot smarter than you used to,” I was really happy to hear those words.

皆様にも古住崇について伝えたいことがまだいっぱいあるけど、今日はとりあえず「本当にありがとうございました、古住君と起業して一緒に仕事が出来た僕は幸せでした」。
I’ve got so many more stories about Kosumi-kun in me, but for now I’d just like to say,”Thank you so much. I was the luckiest and happiest guy in the world to be able to found a company and work together with you.”

古住崇の思い出やエピソードを綴るFacebookページもあります、是非書いてください。https://www.facebook.com/KosumiMemorial

A Facebook page has been set up for those with anecdotes of memories of Takashi Kosumi to share them, please make a post on that page. https://www.facebook.com/KosumiMemorial