Who Can I Be Now?

Pan Shots From Laputa Castle In The Sky - Dir Hayao Miyazaki (1986)

Kirikane decorated balls by National Living Treasure of Japan as a Kirikane artist, Sayoko ERI (1945~2007) まり香盒　人間国宝・江里佐代子 (A kirikane is a decorative technique used for Buddhist statues and paintings, using gold leaf, silver leaf, platinum leaf cut into lines, diamonds and triangles.)

Dr Kei Okami of Tokyo, Japan, was one of these three visiting  women  training to be doctors at Women’s Medical College of Philadelphia during the 1880’s.  All three graduated and each of them thus became the first woman from their respective countries to get a degree in western medicine.  Each made the decision to defy expectations of society and family and travel independently to America to apply, then figure out how to pay for their tuition and board.  Keiko Okami returned to Tokyo and was recognized as a doctor and appointed head of gynecology at one of the main hospitals. But she resigned a few years later when the Emperor refused to receive her during a visit to the hospital, because she was a woman.  Then she went into private practice.  [A special thank you to Chris Woolf, whose article much of this text was derived: the link brings one directly to his full article.] 

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Ping Pong the Animation // Episode 6 Kong Wenge’s Karaoke Scene (Shōgo Hamada, Midnight Flight)