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...rich Kyoto banker and educator, Nagare had no need for immediate income after the war, and spent ten years in remote villages working with stonemasons. Then in 1955 he had his first show in Tokyo - and sold nothing at all. But over the next several years, visiting Americans began to buy his works - Architects Philip Johnson and Marcel Breuer, Collectors William Paley and Joseph Hirshhorn...
After a long unsettled period, Nagare established his private world ten years ago. His first wife, also an artist, loved the excitement of Tokyo. Nagare, brought up among Kyoto's temples, never did. When they parted in 1966, he bought himself a peninsula on the island of Shikoku, 360 miles southwest of Tokyo...
There he built a studio and house. Last February he installed a new bride, Hiroko, a fashion designer, who is also from Kyoto...
...Kyoto bank, which had used yakuza to threaten and intimidate workers into going along with management in a labor dispute, almost went broke from mob shakedowns before it recently called on police for help. At a general stockholders' meeting of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries two years ago, a tough-looking platoon of men beat up a group of peace advocates who had bought shares in the company so that they could protest Mitsubishi's arms production. The men were known to be sokaiya, but no company official ever admitted inviting them. Indeed, it is possible that they had simply...
Though he turned the Alban Hills into something like the landscape around Kyoto, he faithfully retained the details -and mistakes-of the original, itself probably drawn by a man who had never been to Rome either. European engravers, in fact, provided a constant flow of information for Japanese painters of Namban-ga. The demand among the castle lords for paintings like A Western Prince on Horseback stemmed partly from the princes' recognizably military splendors; these gorgeously caparisoned Western samurai must have fitted the opulence of the Momoyama period's taste down to the last tassel and square foot...