Word: okubo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Narita's 800 houses nestle in the rice paddies two hours west of Tokyo. All but 13 of the townspeople's 51 entries were eliminated before the show opened. The locally prominent portraitist Kiichi Okubo, who had been elected judge, thought they failed to meet the exacting best standards of a country where people look for art, as well as craft, in familiar things...
...went to an up-to-date high-school boy for a straw man with burned-out radio tubes for eyes and a larger tube for a tongue. Tin flaps made its cylindrical head revolve in the breeze, scouring every corner of the paddy with its goggle eyes. Mused Judge Okubo: "Scientific and effective...