Fosco Maraini
Fosco Maraini was an Italian photographer, anthropologist, ethnologist, writer, mountaineer and academic.
From 1938 to 1943, Marainis academic career progressed in Japan, teaching first in Hokkaido and then in Kyoto but what he himself observed and learned during those years may be more important than what he may have taught. Dacia, his eldest daughter, would decades later recall that the first trip I took was on the sea from Brindisi to Kobe. Two of his three daughters were born in Japan Yuki was born in Sapporo in 1939, Antonella in Tokio in 1941. After the Italians signed an armistice with the allies in World War II, the Japanese authorities asked Maraini and his wife Topazia Alliata to sign an act of allegiance to Mussolinis puppet Republic of Sal. They were both asked separately and separately they refused, and were interned with their three daughters of six, four and two years old in a concentration camp at Nagoya for two years. Those memories of 1943 through 1946 evolved into some chapters of the book Meeting with Japan by Fosco Maraini. Dacia Marainis collection of poetry drawn
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