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Akiko Kawarai (born 23 October 1929 in Utsunomiya, Japan) artist, jewellery designer, Japanese composer resident in Argentina, founder of the movement Primordial Universal Unity. == Childhood == Born on 23 October 1929 in a traditional Japanese family of samurai origin, Akiko is the only daughter of the marriage between Terutoshi Kawarai and his first wife Kiyo, who died shortly after Akiko's birth. Akiko didn't enjoy good health as a child, her marked weakness along with the pessimistic medical diagnosis regarding her life expectancy being a constant cause of concern for her parents. In the long periods of convalescence to which she was exposed, Akiko found escape through art, breaking free from the shackles of her own personal suffering and from time itself. Her drawings attracted the attention of adults, because despite her young age, her work went beyond that which would be expected of a child. In 1938, for reasons connected with her father's employment, the family left Japan and settled in Changchun, the capital of Manchukuo, China. The sudden environmental change had severe consequences for Akiko health, succumbing as she did to a serious fever shortly after taking up residence there. During the course of her illness Akiko had a vision of her fragile body disintegrating into diminutive spherical pieces that after separating from each other were reunited again in a golden, spherical litmus, from which fragments of her former lives were projected. The Second World War ended in 1945 when Akiko was 15 years old. In September of the following year her family left Manchukuo for the port city of Sasebo, located in the prefecture of Nagasaki, from where they traveled by train to the city of her birth, Utsunomiya, in the province of Tochigi. In the post-war chaos Akiko's father was unable to find work and the family, without a home, was shuffled from one relative's house to the next until a tragic accident left Akiko's father blind. As a result of this incident Chidori, Terutoshi's second wife and stepmother to Akiko, abandoned the family. To confront this new reality Akiko decided not to proceed with a university art course and obtained work at the Tochigi Province Association of Agriculture and Economy to secure the funds to maintain and take care of her father's needs. This brought Akiko to the crossroads between the overwhelming reality that had afflicted her and her vocation as artist. She decided not to abandon art altogether but rather entered into a period of self-instruction. After her duties Akiko found moments to share her transcendental experiences through art with a select group of artists with whom she joined in spiritual retreats in the mountains near the city of Utsunomiya, forming there the movement Primordial Universal Unity. Another of Akiko's loves was literature. She frequented exclusive literary circles where she met notable Japanese contemporary writers. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Akiko Kawarai」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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