The following, submitted August 2005, is from Virginia Wells Tosico Hirota Robb, daughter of the artist.
"My father was born in Kochi City, Japan December 18, 1898. He came to the USA at the age of nineteen to work for Yamanaka Oriental Gift Importers in Boston, MA. He met my mother who was working as a secretary for Yamanaka's. My mother was Hazel Rebecca Wells, born in New Hampshire. They were married in New York February 18, 1930. They spent their homeymoon traveling through Japan and (showing 500 of 2717 characters). |
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