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1973 Samizu only made three entries in English in her 1973 diary Samizu  January 12, 1973 Got up at 2:30 Fine Weather http://www.samizu.com/diaries/sm_73/samizu_1973diary_jan12.jpg http://www.samizu.com/diaries/samizu_matsuki_diary_january_nov73/_samizu_1973diary_jan12.html http://www.samizu.com/diaries/samizu_matsuki_diary_january_nov73/_samizu_1973diary_oct1920.html ("Bear Mtn")

English entries  by Samizu (17 pages )  within her 94 page  1976 -1977 otherwise Japanese diary.   (Some pages have only a single English phrase within Japanese text) Nearly all these are quotations by or about  important thinkers from Ruth Benedict, Alexander Blok, John Steinbeck, Anton  Chekov,   Janko,  Andreyev  -=================================================================  ALEXANDER BLOK: =========================================================================== =========================================================================== ====================================================================== ============================================================================= ============================================================================= =========================================================================== ====...

Samizu  Matsuki, an award winning Japanese artist who retired to the Penobscot Bay region of Maine in 1993, passed away   in her Rockland home on September 4, 2018 . A classical realist oil painter,  Samizu  played a brief yet important role in re-affirming the legitimacy of realistic oil painting as High Art in the  New York City  painting scene of the  early 1970s drawing huge crowds to her entries at several national and international competitions.   Samizu 's significance is in her returning the techniques of Western  Classical Realism painting , as filtered through Japanese art schools since the 19th century, back to the West.  She was born March 16, 1936  in the town of Uryu in Hokkaido,Japan, to educators Masue and Satoru Matsuki.  Samizu  was introduced early to western culture by her parents . The works of western influenced Japanese artists  Ryusei Kishida  ...

1936  Born 1936-03-16, Uryu,  Hokkaidō ,  Japan )  Samizu  baby picture, Feb 7, 1937 Mother: Masue Matuki School teacher and avante gard  "Modern Girl" Father: Satoru Matsuki School teacher and war resistor (I have a better picture of each) 1958  Graduates from National Women's College of Fine Arts, Tokyo. (nowcrenamed  Joshibi  University of Art and Design    Samizu's graduate work painting  "Daphne"  Oil, 4 feet by 5 feet approx 1958 and 1959  Teaches at Narimasugaoka Elementary School   Pic of her teaching license 1959-1960  Teaches at Shimura Daisan Junior High School in Tokyo. Joins Tokyo Teachers Union   Photo of her & 2 other teachers    photo of  samizu w/bicycle  PHoto with  former husband Herman Berry cut from picture   Her Jr High teaching license  samizu p laying violin 1960   Samizu gave lecture in  Bunkyo Precinct in Toky...