Teiko Shimazaki Applebaum
Born in Tokyo. Painter and writer. Immediately after the war, she worked as a technical illustrator for airplanes at a technical research institute, and in 1962 she went to the United States to study. She graduated from the Cornish School of Allied Arts on a scholarship. She worked as an artist at an advertising agency and got married there. She then stayed in Europe twice, for one year each, to follow her husband's research, who is a professor of French and German. In 2002, she published "Letters," a book that tells the story of half her life through letters and memories, and won the International Prize at the 9th My Story/Autobiography Grand Prize sponsored by the Japan Autobiography Society. "America and Me" was selected as the best essay collection of 2011 by Bungeishunju. She currently lives in Seattle, Washington.
(Updated March 2012)
Stories from This Author
アメリカと私
March 6, 2012 • Teiko Shimazaki Applebaum
過ぎ去って手の届かない所に行ってしまってから、思い出すことは多すぎる。 私は、戦中から戦後も軍需工場だった飛行機会社で働いていた。戦争も末期、飛行機の材料であるジュラルミンが少なくなり、木製機を設計しているエンジニアの下で図面引きや研究資料の作成で、これらはすぺて陸軍省に提出された。 終戦で飛行機会社が接収され、連合軍総司令部の管轄に置かれた。私は技術部設計課にそのまま残され、日本政府の雇傭になった。仕事は米軍機の修理や内部の改造の製図で、特殊技術者というのが私の正式な職名…
