Meet Hideko Takamine, a Japanese actress who over the course of nearly 200 films developed from an endearing child star into a powerful representative of the Japanese woman’s search for identity and autonomy in the years after World War II, died on Dec 28 in Tokyo. She was 86. -The New York Times Obituaries
This is phase five for Hideko Takamine, I outlined my interpretation of her wearing a kimono. Her sleeves are meant to appear as butterfly wings, behind her a cherry blossom tree. Hideko Takamine is now finished.
thread on newspaper, New York Times Obituaries, Jan 5 © Christine DaCruz 2011
