Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende

Some sites with information & pictures of internment camps in Arizona:

http://parentseyes.arizona.edu/wracamps/

http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/chandler/2017/01/30/5-things-know-arizonas-world-war-ii-internment-camps/96965004/

Dorothea Lange’s Censored Photographs of FDR’s Japanese Concentration Camps: 

https://anchoreditions.com/blog/dorothea-lange-censored-photographs

Oomoto:

http://www.oomoto.or.jp/English/enFaq/indexfaq.html

Q-What is Oomoto?

A-Oomoto is a Sectarian Shinto sect and one of Japan’s “New Religions.” (Sometimes it is spelled Omoto and also referred to as Omotokyo.)

Q-What are Japan’s New Religions?

A-Since the middle of the nineteenth century, hundreds of religious sects, many based on Shinto and some on Buddhism, were founded. Several dozen still exist, a few of them large and thriving. Although Oomoto is not the largest, it is often cited as one of the more influential New Religions for many reasons: it gave birth to several other sects, which spun off from it amicably in most cases; it was an early proponent of interfaith cooperation, which today is widely practiced by Japanese religions; and it had a highly public and sometimes tragic history in its first fifty years.

Q-What is Shinto?

A-Shinto is the original folk religion of Japan. Sometime after Buddhism arrived from China and Korea around 600 AD, the name “Shinto” was coined to describe the indigenous beliefs practiced since before recorded history. Shinto means “the way of the gods,” to distinguish it from “the way of Buddha.”

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Foundation / daughter Paula

http://www.isabelallendefoundation.org/en/story

http://www.geoex.com/blog/2013/02/isabel-allende-who-wants-a-girl

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TED talks

https://www.ted.com/speakers/isabel_allende

https://www.ted.com/talks/isabel_allende_tells_tales_of_passion

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Some Vera Neumann designs on Pinterest ....

https://www.pinterest.com/peipjm/vintage-vera-neumann/