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Samizu Matsuki describes life as 9 year old in Northern Japan when  the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.  The interview  by her then-husband Ronald Calvin Huber was in late 2003   Noboribetsu.  August 1945 "First I have to explain    the particular environment &    circumstances:  The     dropping of the atomic bomb. I call it the    "Hiroshima Incident" I was a Japanese kid.   9 years old. In 4th grade. I was living in Noboribetsu.   It happened   in 1945   in early   August.   First atomic bomb used in mankind's   history.    All the movies and all those things that describe it are false.   It wasn't like that at all.   In the beginning, we didn't know what the heck it was.   Then next thing we know, we got to all get checked out for "fallout".    We didn't know what the fallout was.   We only knew that if you are wet or ...

Samizu Matsuki, A Life. Posted:  Friday, August 31, 2018 - 8:00a   Samizu, a self portrait, 1970. Samizu Matsuki, an award winning Japanese  realism artist,  passed away  in her Rockland home on August 4, 2018 . A classical realist oil painter, Samizu played a brief yet important role in reaffirming the legitimacy of realistic oil painting as High Art within 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 to the West its  techniques of  Western  Classical Realism oil painting , as filtered through generations of  Japanese artists including art educators since the 19th Century.  She was born March 16, 1936 in the town of Uryu in Hokkaido, Japan, to educators Masue and Satoru Matsuk...