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...Japanese, Sesshu is, as one early critic said, "the open door through which all contemporary and subsequent artists looked into the seventh heaven of Chinese genius." Working mainly in sumi ink and brush, Sesshu changed the Chinese art of landscape into something typically Japanese, portraying traditional Japanese scenes in sure, strong brush strokes that gave a new vigor and vision to the exquisite lines of the Chinese Sung period. From Sesshu onward, Japanese painting had a look of its own and a tradition still practiced by such modern masters as Taikwan Yokohama (TIME, Sept...
...fund-raising Manhattan tea party, Mrs. Sumi Yukawa, petite wife of Nobel Prizewinning Physicist Dr. Hideki Yukawa, won bravos for her costume performance of two classical Japanese dances. Her sons, Harumi, 17, and Takaki, 15, did not attend the exhibition. Explained Dr. Yukawa: "They're much more interested in baseball...
...Mitsuis, though not exactly starving, were already jobless. They had returned, full circle, to the aristocratic idleness of the time before old Sokubei, the brewer. The most sadness, however, was expressed by one of the Mitsui "clerks" (actually a top executive), a grey, frail little man named Tatsuo Sumi, who is said to be descended from a 17th Century Mitsui clerk or banto. Tatsuo talked like an aging English butler whose lord & lady had come on evil times. "I have given my life to Mitsui," he said; "there is nothing more to do. . . . A glorious history has been wiped...
Strictly anti-militaristic, the 75 U. S. Girl Scouts and 26 foreign young ladies pitched their tents helter-skelter-not in precise rows. No martial bugle but a huge iron dinner gong called young "Sylvias" to their meals.* Although their countrymen are at each other's throats, Ruth Sumi Sakurai of Tokyo and Hsueh Min Chang of Peiping came over on the same boat...
...small Tsushima Island, Japan. Jiro Tanaka, 21, fell in love with Sumi Chan, 19, a prostitute. Protesting that he could not afford to patronize the "restaurant" where she worked, he took her away and secreted her for a month, under the floor of the bicycle shop where he worked. Summoned to appear for a military examination at his native village, Toyomizu, 75 miles away, and still in love and poor, Tanaka bought a steamship ticket home, packed his girl in a box and took the box aboard. The box was delivered to a lodging house in Hakata, made odd little...