Word: samurais
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...roving eye, Okichi was renowned for her beauty, her regal bearing and her torch songs. Her true love was her childhood sweetheart, a peasant carpenter named Tsuru-Matsu. but after Townsend Harris' ultimatum. Japanese officials lured Tsuru-Matsu away from Okichi with promises of making him a samurai. On the rebound from this desertion. Okichi agreed to go to lonely, kindly Consul Harris, and she fell in love with her middle-aged diplomatic Pinkerton...
...Harris' arrangements with the Japanese called for the geisha to be spirited away whenever the "black ships" of the Americans were in port-and as these absences lengthened, Okichi consoled herself with sake. Consolation became alcoholic degradation, and Harris would have nothing more to do with her. No samurai, but still a carpenter. Tsuru-Matsu came back and married her; but love and liquor would not mix. When she was told that Townsend Harris had been buried "among the silent hills of Brooklyn." Okichi lingered on a few years, then suffered a paralytic stroke; dragging herself painfully...
...Plucky Poet. The story of Tsumakichi has the universal appeal of plain grit. During one night of horror in her 17th year, Tsumakichi woke to find a human head rolling past her on the teahouse veranda, saw a samurai sword flash twice toward her own body, leaving her armless. Her berserk adoptive father, the manager of the teahouse, had lopped off the heads of five of the six people sleeping under his roof that night. Primarily a dancer, she painfully mastered a new art. Holding a paintbrush between her teeth, she learned to paint ideograms and to draw designs...
...best and bloodiest middleweight fist fights in years, Utah's Gene Fullmer and France's Charles Humez cut each other up like feuding samurai for ten rounds at Madison Square Garden before Fullmer won the decision and, perhaps, a chance to send Champion Sugar Ray Robinson back to the nightclubs...
Ecclesiastics Are Politicians. Founder Uchimura, born to a samurai family in 1861, was introduced to Christianity at twelve, when a Tokyo schoolmate invited him "to a certain place in the foreigners' quarter, where we can hear pretty women sing and a tall, big man with a long beard shout and howl upon an elevated place, flinging his arms and twisting his body in all fantastic manners, to all of which admittance is entirely free." Later, at an American-founded agricultural school...