Word: hori
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seaman who could stand the pain of having a full-rigged ship tattooed on himself would automatically make a good topman. By the late 19th century Japan had come to be considered the chief home of the art. Aristocrats from around the globe visited the studio of one Hori Chyo, in Yokohama, to obtain such delicate decorations as a fool-the-eye fly tattooed on the hand. London's Sutherland Macdonald was the first European practitioner of any pretensions; among other designs, he offered a hunt with horses and red-coated riders pursuing...
Cyanide for Supper. To many a Japanese, trying in vain to cope with a U.S. economic program which seemed only to produce less money and more hardships, the old days seemed the best days. At week's end a 42-year-old Tokyo factory worker, Hiroshi Hori, took his wife and five children to view the cherry blossoms in Sumida Park. When they got home Mrs. Hori cooked up some bitter-tasting bean" paste for supper. The four younger children refused to eat it. Next morning they found their father, mother and eldest sister dead of cyanide poisoning...