Word: gu
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...declares that this was the place where he decided to become an artist. Growing up in Kotohira, a backwater town on Shikoku island in southern Japan, he rarely gave any thought to art. But one of his best friends was the son of the head priest of Kotohira-gu, commonly called Konpira, an important Shinto shrine that is the town's great pride and that is said to date back more than 2,000 years. So Takubo spent a lot of time on the shrine's grounds, climbing up and down the complex's infamously forbidding 785 steps, and watching...
...Gu, who was also a Crimson editor, graduated with a degree in environmental science and public policy and held a wide variety of interests, said his close friend Ming H. Chen...
...Gu fought for social equality during his time at Harvard, according to Jimmy Quach ’98, another close friend. He worked in the Office of Admissions and Financial Aid for the Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program, working to bring Asian-Americans to Harvard...
...Gu was a member of the Asian-American Christian Fellowship throughout his college career and served on the group’s executive board while he was a senior...
Quach, who also roomed with Gu in Boston several years after his graduation, remembered his relentless positivity and curiosity about people...