Plate section faces page 128
Preface
List of Plates
1. Rhythms Are What Divide Us
2. My Mother
3. My Father
4. How Marrying Changes my Father’s Life
5. The Great Kanto Earthquake
6. Hayama
7. Mother Contacts Her First Japanese Friend
8. Royal Friends
9. The Japanese Language
10. Winters in Yokohama
11. Father’s Sudden Death
12. England
13. Bermuda
14. Mills College, 1943-1945
15. London, 1945-1949
16. Innocence and Ignorance
17. Back in Japan – 1949
18. Love and Sex 114
19. Meeting ‘Boy’
20. Society in Japan
21. Marriage Customs
22. Washoku and O-furo
23. My Royal Neighbours
24. Two Composers
25. London and Paris
26. Harps and Angels
27. Back to Work in Japan
28. Dreaming of Elephants
29. Finding the Britton
30. Sea Shells
31. The ‘Katakana Prison’ and Mr Suzuki
32. Poetry
33. The Island in Between
34. Marrying ‘Boy’ – 1968
35. The Japanese Crane – Bird of Happiness
36. Comfort and Solace with Ted
Dorothy Britton’s Published Works
Index
Anglo-American writer, poet, composer, musician, Dorothy Britton (Lady Bouchier, MBE) was born in Japan and educated in Britain and the USA. A pupil of Darius Milhaud she is known for her popular Capitol Records album Japanese Sketches, hailed by the American Record Guide as a highly successful ‘translation of the koto/samisen aesthetic into occidental terms’. Capitol also commissioned a musical. In addition, she had regular programmes on NHK’s Radio Japan introducing Japanese folklore, music and musicians, for listeners abroad, as well as a twelve-year TV programme teaching English conversation to Japanese middle-school pupils and singing British folksongs with her Irish harp. Her distinguished translation of Basho’s Narrow Road to a Far Province is a classic. She is also well known for her translation of Tetsuko Kuroyanagi’s best-seller Totto-chan, the Little Girl at the Window, and short stories by Ryonosuke Akutagawa.
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