Documents a pictorial autobiography
by Aiko Miyawaki
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- VG+
- ISBN 10
- 4568220963
- ISBN 13
- 9784568220964
- Seller
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Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
Aiko Miyawaki: Documents from an Artist's Life. "People tell me that I'm not at all a typical Japanese woman. I laugh and I think of my free-spirited mother and radical father...so radical in fact, that he was in prison for protesting a landfill project when I was born. He was an anarchist, a pacifist. My mother came from an old proud family in Izu. Her ancestors were the Saiwa Genji; we grew up before the war, in a big house in Atami, Shizuoka Prefecture with many servants. My mother always spoke her opinion and encouraged those around her to develop their talents. Even one of her housekeepers became a calligraphy teacher. As for me, when I grew up I wanted to be a writer like the Heian essayist Sei Shonagon. Japan has such a long tradition of women intellectuals, and it seemed perfectly natural that I would be one myself." Aiko continues to describe life during WWII and afterwards how she concentrated on her career.
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- Bookseller
- Stillman Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 483-SB
- Title
- Documents a pictorial autobiography
- Author
- Aiko Miyawaki
- Format/Binding
- Paper wraps.
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 4568220963
- ISBN 13
- 9784568220964
- Publisher
- Bijutsu Shuppan-Sha
- Place of Publication
- Tokyo
- Date Published
- Feb.22, 1992
- Pages
- 184
- Size
- Sq. 8vo.
- Keywords
- The book is mainly in Japanese except for a section in English that I quoted from.
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children's and other illustrated books, along with aviation, sea and naval and other categories. I'm still plugging along after 42 years of book-selling.