Yone Noguchi

Leonie

HAKUTANI: Did your father mary twice, then, your mother and then…?
ISAMU: Maybe he didn't marry either of them, I don't know… 1931 was the last time I saw him…(I forgot to make you some tea. Good idea!) - Hakutani's interview, 1986.

"Mrs. N______."
[from The Story of Yone Noguchi; Yone Nouchi; 1906 ]



Yone at 68
Noguchi


          neé Gilmour



as mesmer…
Yone's second wife:

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a lot of pictures are missing…


Yoshiko aka
shirley Yamaguchi

or james dean maybe?

"If it moves you

it is sculpture."

aka Lee Ko-ran


selling soap in Manchuria
Married briefly to Shirley Yamaguchi, Noguchi later remarked on the distraction family life caused his father, "Now, as you see, why I don't get married."

- Hakutani, [1990, vol 1]

yone

by Alfeo Faggi





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