Meanwhile, in 1969 she published a German translation of the ancient Japanese tale Taketori-monogatari with her sister Naoko Matsubara doing illustrations for the book.
She then pursued an MFA in the School of Fine Arts at the Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh on a Fulbright Travel Grant, and since then has traveled extensively and taught at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn—a rare distinction for a Japanese woman.
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Naoko Matsubara’s father was the chief priest in a Shinto shrine in Kyoto.
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Naoko Matsubara's sister is the novelist Hisako Matsubara, they collaborated on the publication of Japanese tale Taketori Monogatari in German.
Naoko Takeuchi | NaoKo TakaHashi (artist) | NaoKo TakaHashi | Naoko Yamano | Naoko Takahashi | Matsubara Naoko | Hisako Matsubara |