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ORIENTAL occultism: deeply intertwined, almost incestuous, love affairs; one women's guilt pain and revenge--these are the promising central elements of Masks a novel best described as a Japanese Harlequin Romance Sadly, Fumiko Enchi fails to deliver on this promise...
...Fumiko Enchi wrote Masks 25 years ago, but only this year did Knopf publish an English translation. Enchi is described as one of Japan's most important women writers, Masks as her finest work. However, an unlikely plot, combined with a superficial theme and vacuous characterization, make that boast at best difficult to believe...
...Relocation Center in California. Switching angles and changing focuses, splicing bits and pieces sharp as shards, he re-creates their barbed world in a manner often confusing but finally effective. With their mother dispatched to another relocation camp i,n Montana, the father has abdicated his paterfamilias function. Instead, Fumiko, an older married sister, tries to hold the assorted family together: Ruby, a 13-year-old kid sister who becomes pregnant; Napoleon, her kid brother who dreams of becoming a Navy bombardier; Chuichi, a bitter boy who has been summarily dropped out of an American Army paratroop unit. Harold...
...Married. Fumiko Higashikuni, 21, eldest granddaughter of Japan's Emperor Hirohito; and Kazutoshi Omura, 28, an executive with Hitachi Metals, Ltd.; in a Shinto ceremony; in Tokyo...
Recently the A. J. Y. W. A. decided that new and appropriate good deeds would be "comforting our brave soldiers in Manchuria." Seven socialite maidens were picked out of the 2,000,000 and solemnly blessed by a Shinto priest (see cut). Last week, the socialite Misses Tsuneyo Ishii, Fumiko Yamaguchi, Sakiko Yendo, Toshiko Odai. Masako Aoyagi and Chisato and Kijo Chiba were busy in Manchuria, comforting...