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Passing of anthropology great reverberates through Japan

Sat, 2009-11-07 05:32 — Robyn

When he was 5 years old, his artist father gave a certain little boy a woodcut print by Hiroshige Ando of people walking beneath pine trees on the seashore. He put it on his bed, and decorated the print with Japanese dolls and miniature furniture. After that, every time he got good marks in school, he was given another ukiyoe print.

Drawn into the world of Hokusai, Toyokuni, Kunisada and Kuniyoshi, in his late teens this boy began collecting katana swords and sword guards. The boy was Claude Levi-Strauss.

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