He was actively engaged, centered around two orchestral concerts at Carnegie Hall in New York. In the summer of 1918, he stayed at the villa of Shigeuma Yamauchi (who supported his concerts at Carnegie Hall) in Cranford, a village near New York. These three piano pieces, composed during that time, were not originally conceived as a cycle but were grouped together due to their common origin of being composed in Cranford. At that time, Yamada composed piano miniatures in the form of a 'diary,' bearing only dates and no titles. Gradually, titles were added, and these piano miniatures came to be known under the genre 'Petits Poèmes (Pages from a Diary).' “Juin no Gogo” (Afternoon in the Shade) and “Nakinururu Yanagi” (Weeping Willows) were composed with the date June 2nd and published in 1919 as Cranford Nikki (Cranford Diary) by Composer’s Music Corporation in New York. The first edition was dedicated to Mr. and Mrs. Yamauchi. The title “Juin no Gogo” was given at the time of the first edition's publication, while in the manuscript, only the English phrase 'One afternoon I sat in the shade and talked' is written in the margin of the score. “Nakinururu Yanagi” is noted as 'The weeping willows' in English already in the manuscript. The cover of the manuscript for the third piece bears the inscription 'Cranford Nikki, Chapter 2, with a Dance Piece, Chapter 1,' and after the first edition was published, when the old Shunjusha edition was released, the editor gave it the title “Trois poèmes à Cranford.”