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Samizu Matsuki. The early years

SW HOKKAIDO Wartime Childhood From Hokkaido women  Hokkaido, the northernmost island of Japan where I was born, and where I lived my first 18 years, has a history similar to that of Australia - a land of banishment. Since most of the early inhabitants were cut off from the cultural continuum, mainland influences were largely rejected or simply ignored by the inhabitants. A proud ”Hokkaido-ness” characterized as a “rough and tough” independent culture and life style evolved. Hokkaido women were expected to be as independent and strong as men. Literacy at Age 1 " Thanks to my parents, I learned to read when I was one year old. No big deal it seems; kid has got to use as much brainpower & concentration to master baby talk as to learn to read.  When I was a teacher, I met some teachers who taught babies to read." 1976036 I remember when I was a child, a very young child, looking at a picture of St. Francis talking to a little bird and thinking what a silly old boy...

Samizu hokkaido links

WIKI-How to write a biography  Albany Art Museum Intl Tribunal war crimes  Judgements Guarding Japanese Generals  at Sugamo  ARTISTS  Suichi Ono Japanese Painter 1927-2000  Migishi Setsuko sami tutor  SAMIZU SCHOOLS Abira  https://mapsus.net/JP/abira-choritsu-abira-elementary-school-802778 Abira Schoo l  https://www-town-abira-lg-jp.translate.goog/midokoro/shisetsu/school/101?_x_tr_sl=ja&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc Abira   https://www.gaccom.jp/en/schools-39587/enq.html Abira   Abira Schools    Noboribetsu city website  https://www.city.noboribetsu.lg.jp/docs/2013021200029/ Ikushunbetsu Elementary School (closed)    https://www.pixtastock.com/photo/80639985 https://www.google.com/travel/hotels/entity/ChgIv4vk7M6k8LuRARoLL2cvMTIxOHJsdmwQBA?utm_campaign=sharing&utm_medium=link&utm_source=htls&ved=0CAAQ5JsGahcKEwjIwoSTnZL5AhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAw&ts=CAESABoECgIaACoECgAaAA Mikasa ...

Samizu Matsuki - Her schooling.

  Samizu Matsuki's  4th and 5th grade Abira Choritsu Abira Elementary School   165 Abira, Yufutsu District    Hokkaido 059-1511, Japan     tel  +81 145-23-2266 1st and 2nd grade: Ikushun-Betsu elementary school, Mikasa. Hokkaido .                                   Address : 485-1 Hongocho, Mikasa, Hokkaido 068-2161, Japan Closed ⋅ Opens 8AM Phone : +81 1267-2-2010      01267-2-3182 2nd, 3rd, 4th grade Toya-Ko Elementary school Abuta Elementary School 59 Sakaecho, Toyako, Abuta District, Hokkaido 049-5604, Japan Tel   +81 142-76-2015 web http://www.town.toyako.hokkaido.jp/abteschool/index.html 4th and 5th grades Abira elementary school 1, Abira Municipal Toasa Elementary School.   Address : 580 Toasa, Abira, Yufutsu District, Hokkaido 059-1433, Japan 2 Abira Choritsu Abira Elementary School :  165 Abira, Y...

Samizu Matsuki: Memories, Dreams, Reflections (A work in progress)

We are fortunate in Samizu having been a prolific diarist in the years when she  painted her most significant works.  "Significant"  as in expressing themes  of those times on earth, as opposed to  portraits and land- and sea-scapes, which as a working artist  she painted more than 100. Samizu learns to draw and to paint. 3pgs     childhood_art_excerpts.pdf . Lights on the Sea. A childhood memoir. 25 pages     lights_on_the_sea_full.pdf . A quick review from from childhood during World War Two in Hokkaido, Japan to winning awards in NYC 1970. 15 pages    samizu_by_samizu_052522%20%281%29.pdf . List of Samizu's schools, and a memoir from childhood through high school. 4pgs Life during and after the war, 1936 to 1946.10pgs   samizu_life_during_after_ww2_1936_1946.pdf . A bloodstained gate at the United Nations 1974. 11pgs     samizu_1974_united%20_nations_judo_3rd_person.pdf French Academy's influence on Art...

Outreach on Samizu's Murals 2021

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From: dreamyshade Britta Gustafson Subject: Re: Seeking Isla Vista mural from early 1980s   Thank you for the sketch! It's cool to learn about another Isla Vista mural that I didn't know about before. The building is currently empty, since the owner plans to open a restaurant but is waiting for a better time to open it. It would be very helpful to know which wall - my friend knows the owner and could at least ask some questions. You could also reach out to the UCSB Special Collections library and see if they have may have any materials on this: www.library.ucsb.edu/special-collections A few years ago I requested and looked at the box listed here labeled "Murals (b/w and color prints, and slides), 1974-1977": www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/ft9779p11z/dsc/#aspace_ref1491_xy2 But that set of slides stops too early, and I don't remember seeing this mural in there. From: dreamyshade Britta Gustafson Subject: Re: Seeking Isla Vista mural from early 1980s   Hello! ...

The Lost Secret Inch and the Mathematical Barbarians Ancient math rediscovered

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THE LOST SECRET INCH and THE MATHEMATICAL BARBARIANS with  Appendix "A ONE HUNDRED BILLION POUND, THREE PIECE YARDSTICK" 1978 by Duncan E. McPherson Dedicated to Professor William Beverly Professor of Mathematics Lafayette College Easton, Pennsylvania PREFACE This book is written to describe the discovery of an ancient and lost system of Egyptian mathematics. The only lost science ever discovered or reinvented. It is a renaissance of Third Dynasty Egyptian mathematics. INTRODUCTION This is a book demonstrating a new branch of mathematics or a very old, unknown branch of mathematics invented, I believe, by the great Imhotep, Third Dynasty of Ancient Egypt~ He lived approximately 500 years before the construction of the great pyramid and an estimated 600 years before the flood of Biblical Fame. The fgyptians were known to have engaged in obscurantism. This science could have been an ancient military secret of map making and never known publicly. The mathematical sophisticat...

How Samizu did not drown -from an account by her brother

  Editor's note: Samizu had verbally mentioned this incident, On Sept. 26, 1954, the Toya Maru, a Japanese commercial ferry, sank with great loss of life.  She noted that she herself had taken  the Toya Maru  across the Tsugeru Strait only a few days earlier.,to attend   the Women's College of Fine Arts in Tokyo    Madoka Matsuki recounted in the family memories of his father Satoru Matsuki:  "My oldest sister went to an art school for women, and I was sending her books from home. It was on the Toya Maru. The book was blistered by the water and came back later. Because of this, the Toya Maru incident and our relocation to Horobetsu left a very strong impression on me"

Samizu, living at Maidstone Manor, Maryland gets December 14, 1990 letter-card from Miho Nakazima of Hokkaido.

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December 14, 1990 letter to Samizu from Miho Nakazima in Tomokamai, Hokkaido Japan. Samizu was living in the converted slavehouse of the  historic Maidstone Manor , in Calvedrt County Maryland. Firewood heating  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Hokkaido document sources

  Debating the Allied Occupation of Japan (Part Two) Postwar Development of Hokkaido Records of U.S. Occupation Headquarters, World War II Japanese Studies Primary Sources in Western Languages: Gov. documents CHAPTER II TROOP MOVEMENTS, DISPOSITIONS, AND LOCATIONS The Spearhead A Guide to Research on the Allied Occupation of Japan By Matthew R. Augustine Records and Related Documents from the Allied Occupation of Japan in the W Japan in the Washingt ashington D. C. Ar . C. Area: The Pr ea: The Program of the National am of the NationalDiet Libr Diet Library for Micr y for Microfilming and Acquiring V ofilming and Acquiring Valuable Resear aluable ResearchMaterialsMasaaki Chiyo 

The Light upon the Sea. A short story by artist Samizu Matsuki DRAFT

 The lights upon the sea  By Samizu Matsuki  Chapter 1 The year of 1945 has particular significance to the school kids who happened to live alongside the Tohoku Mainline and beyond IBURI-HONSEN (the main line)  because of frequent visits by Royal family members and most often, Emperor HIROHITO himself.  As customarily we used to bow lowest when the train marked with the 6-petaled golden chrysanthemum happened to pass through those particulars places. as I mention since the frequency itself makes every suspicion that the Emperor could have been in any area other than "ours" - TOHOKU and IBURI HONSEN, the main artery of the railroads heading toward "North" And of course coming from the same direction.  That's how often the Japanese Royal family traveled toward North, possibly to Manchuria.   ------------------------ Page 2 For the Manchurian Railroad system then was the most "modern" of all within the Great Asian Co-prosperity Sphere's boundaries...