During a visit with Toshi Takata in Japan, 1970, I was requested and
inspired to write of Miss Takata's interesting and enriching life. We became
acquainted and friends during her visits in Bloomington, Indiana, in 1954,
1964 and 1969 when she came as a house guest of Professor Ruth Strickland
and also in my home .
Miss Takata began the account of herself and her family the summer of
1970 when I visited her and we vacationed at Gora in Hakone National Park.
The days were not long enough to more than begin to exchange the many questions
and answers; most of the information came later in letters until her death
in 1974.
Toshi Takata's deep understanding and lively interest in people won her
life-long friends. She linked in friendship her friends with each other
and led many to a deeper meaning of friendship.
She became indeed a kind of spiritual bridge.
Elsie Kinunell Field
Bloomington, Indiana
1979