Japanese 'floral ambassador' Yuriko Go under pseudonym Akemi Togo, Los Angeles, 1935

Item Overview

Title

Japanese 'floral ambassador' Yuriko Go under pseudonym Akemi Togo, Los Angeles, 1935

Date Created

Aug. 8, 1935

Date

1935-08-08

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Japanese flower arranger Yuriko Go, under her pseudonym Akemi Togo, giving a demonstration on the Japanese art of flower arrangement at the Social Arts League in Los Angeles. Miss Go previously attended USC for two years before going back to Tokyo in order to study the decorative arrangement of flowers in the Moribana style of the Ohara school. Her trip was sanctioned by foreign offices of Japan and the United States and was considered a goodwill mission to American women. She was referred to as "flower ambassador from Japan" and a "good will ambassador." She also published a book under this pseudonym, "Japanese Touch to American Bouquet" in 1935.
Similar photograph published under caption, "Japan's Flower Ambassador," with article, "City Greets Tokio 'Queen' -- Good Will Ambassador Says Japan Girls Fond of Hollywood Styles," Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 1935: A1.

Caption

Text on negative sleeve: 1555- Aug 14 1935; Akemi Toyo [sic.] Demonstrates Flower arrangement, 8-8-35
Handwritten on negative: Akemi Togo, 8-7-35

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Go, Yuriko, b. 1910

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Longitude

34.058760

Latitude

-118.307440

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Flower arrangement, Japanese--Ohara school
Flower arrangers--Japan