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Akiko writing the word "Yama"

Akiko Ohara, a ballerina, and her artist husband were invited by Isamu Yuba in 1961 to make the journey from Japan to join the farm. They arrived two weeks before Christmas.

I left Japan 39 years ago. I came along with the sculptor Hisao Ohara to live on Yuba’s farm. On the way, 600 km to the northwest of Sao Paulo city, I was amazed by the size of the horizon to which you could lose sight in every direction. And the highway seemed to cross the sky until finally a red dirt track took us to Yuba’s farm. (From “Song of Rejoice”)