Box 1

Scope and Contents From the Collection: In the five months worth of personal letters that comprise this collection, the artist Yasuo Kuniyoshi describes his 1931-1932 journey back to Japan in vivid detail. Writing to his wife Katherine (Schmidt) in New York, Kuniyoshi details every experience--from spending time with his ailing father and revisiting Okayama, the place of his childhood, to preparing for his one-man exhibitions and adjusting to the frequent social functions required by those shows and to other customs that now...