5 Quotes & Sayings By Susumu Katsumata

Susumu Katsumata was born in Tokyo, Japan, in 1936. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 1960. In 1963 he moved to New York City where he lived and worked as a painter until 1968. In 1968 he moved to Paris, France where he began writing as a hobby and continued to paint for ten years Read more

In 1983 he returned to New York City and began writing and illustrating children's books and textbooks.

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Your daughter's coming of age, you ought to let her see the world a little. Susumu Katsumata
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I wish I could see a cherry blossom or a lotus flower. Where could they be? Susumu Katsumata
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Life in this village is like that of a louse hanging on to a wrinkle in a loincloth. Susumu Katsumata
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Young Bride had a scratch on her neck from the knife, but no other external injuries. It seemed she was killed by the shock the drunks gave her. After sixty-odd years, reliving the trauma of that fateful night was too much to bear. There was no funeral procession. She was buried on the unlucky hill on the outskirts of the village. The crickets, however, remained around her shack and continued to sing until the first snow fell. Susumu Katsumata