Umbrella by taro yashima7/2/2023 ![]() ![]() Yashima also wrote several books based on his daughter, Momo, including Umbrella(1958) and Momo's Kitten(1961). Like several of his later works, it would focus on his and his collaborator's (and wife), Mitsu Yashima, experiences growing up in Japan. Yashima's first book specifically for children, The Village Tree,came out in 1953. His first work, autobiographical in content, The New Sun, was published in 1943. Yashima began writing and illustrating books in the 1940s. He first used the pseudonym Yashima during his service with the Office of Strategic Services in World War II. He studied art in Tokyo at the Imperial Art Academy from 1927 to 1930 and later at the Art Students League in New York City, from 1939 to 1941. ![]() Taro Yahima (the pseudonym for Jun Atsushi Iwamatsu) was born in Septemin Kagoshima, Japan, and immigrated to the United States in 1939. ![]()
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