Word: ueno
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Chiharu Igaya, 27, Japan's Olympic skier (second in the slalom at Cortina in 1956), '57 graduate of Dartmouth College, who tied for the U.S. National Downhill championship in 1955, won the Canadian Slalom championship in 1957; and Takayo Ueno, 24, daughter of a retired sportswriter; in Tokyo...
Outside the traditional Japanese house facing famed Ueno Park roars the frantic traffic of Tokyo 1955. But behind the high wall with its iron-studded cypress-wood gates is the peaceful stillness of classical Japan. There, in a severely unadorned room opening on a small garden of wild grasses, stunted pines and an artificial brook, sits the black kimonoed figure of Taikwan Yokoyama, Japan's greatest living traditional artist. A fiercely independent man of monumental rages, Yokoyama today firmly treads the paths laid out by Japan's past masters, paints in styles that recall the Ukiyo...
Recently, the people of Ueno were called on to vote (in a by-election) for a representative in the upper house of Japan's Diet. On election day there was also a fireworks display at a nearby Shinto shrine. The local political boss canvassed the villagers, asked those who wanted to see the fireworks to hand over their admission tickets to the polls, so that Ueno might still have a patriotically large number of ballots cast. In one ward a bulletin was circulated demanding that people who did not intend to vote bring their tickets to the ward leader...
...Japan's newly enfranchised women, reported these scandalous goings-on to her family. They did not correspond to what May Moon had learned in her civics books. So May Moon wrote an indignant letter to Asahi Shimbun, Japan's most influential newspaper. Government investigators moved into Ueno...
...people of Ueno felt that dishonor had fallen on the village, but that May Moon, not they, had caused it. The cold silence of mura-hachibu enveloped the family, a severe form of ostracism in which no one will speak to the victims or aid them except in case of fire or funeral. No one would lend Ichiro tools and he could get no work. But he did not blame his daughter, and she did not blame the villagers. "The chiefs had told them that the village should cast many votes and would not be dishonored," said May Moon. "This...