Chiemi Souen

IKIGAI

Life's Purpose

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Produktbeschreibung

Every day, Choichi Terukina practices singing and playing the three-stringed sanshin with his teacher, Miyazato-Sensei. Choichi wants to become a great musician and share the art of uta-sanshin with the world beyond his island home. But is that truly his ikigai-his life's purpose? Inspired by the life of Living National Treasure of Japan, Choichi Terukina, IKIGAI: Life's Purpose is a beautiful tale of determination for anyone searching for their place in the world.¿

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brandylane Publishers, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 40
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. August 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 221mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 341g
• ISBN-13: 9781953021144
• ISBN-10: 195302114X
• Artikelnr.: 61932815

Autorenporträt

Chiemi Souen writes to give a voice to Okinawan-American descendants of contract sugar plantation workers who immigrated from Okinawa in the early 1900s and remain faceless in literature to this day. Born in Torrance, California, and raised in Honolulu, Souen earned her bachelor's degree in Japanese language and literature at the University of Hawai'i at Mänoa in 1995. In 1998, she received the Okinawa Prefectural Government Scholarship to attend the University of the Ryukyus, where she studied Okinawan language and women's studies. She is also a member of Ryukyu Koten Afuso Ryu Choichi Kai USA/Hawai'i, an Okinawan classical music academy. She is currently the editor of "The Hawai'i Herald," Hawai'i's Japanese American Journal.