Word: matsukata
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brighten Japan's knowledge of Western art. Though the collection is not all first caliber, there are some great works, especially of sculpture (see color pages). Valued at $5,000,000, it was put together in the early part of the century by a Japanese shipbuilder named Kojiro Matsukata, who bought largely by lot, and reportedly paid between $15 million and $20 million all told. Because the Japanese government imposed a 100% duty on art works, Matsukata kept the bulk of his collection in Paris and London. The London half was bombed out in World War II; the Paris...
Professor Edwin O. Reischauer, chairman of the committee on East Asian studies, will marry Miss Haru Matsukata, a Japanese foreign correspondent whom he has known since his school days in Japan. He said that no date had been formally set but the wedding would take place within "a couple of months...
Reischauer, 45, a well-known writer on Far Eastern affairs, is on a year's sabbatical leave and is presently staying in Japan. Miss Matsukata, 40, is the Far Eastern representative of the Saturday Evening Post and secretary of the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan...