I guess he saw something in me. So he told my mother that the only place where I could learn to really dance was to send me to Japan. So, I guess my parents decided that I should go to Japan to study odori, and I was eleven when I went to Japan, first time.
And then, ‘cause I was still eleven, I had to go to school there, so I went to school for, I think it was three years, and I stayed there for three years. And came back. I was fourteen.
- 前の記事4. Rev. Yoshio Iwanaga at San Jose Buddhist Temple used to come to Mountain View to teach Bon odori and dōyō (children’s songs).
- 次の記事6. Taught all the dances learned in the past three years in Japan at Oakland Buddhist Temple.
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- 1. My grandparents had their own Kabuki group with props bought from Japanese touring troupes.
- 2. My family got involved in Kabuki because there was somebody in the area who was able to direct Kabuki.
- 3. My cousin taught me how to dance to fill the Kabuki intermission when I was seven.
- 4. Rev. Yoshio Iwanaga at San Jose Buddhist Temple used to come to Mountain View to teach Bon odori and dōyō (children’s songs).
- 5. Advised by Rev. Iwanaga, learned Japanese dance in Japan from the age of 11 to 14.
- 6. Taught all the dances learned in the past three years in Japan at Oakland Buddhist Temple.
- 7. Studied another three years in Japan and came back one month before the war broke out.