lily of tokyo

Tokyo Lily

happy holidays to all you heARTists and heART lovers all around the world! it’s the 8th day of the 12th month, and time to celebrate more heARTwork by Yuri.

everyone, we have more great news for you! 

in October, we released the first trailer for our upcoming film, ‘Tokyo Lily, a war bride docu*memory’—which is about Yuriko’s life and heART.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qW3S8xr-eQ

and, last month, we started a fundraising campaign to help us complete the film:

https://crowdfundr.com/tokyo-lily

with the money you donate, we’ll be processing film footage for editing. we’ll also hire an illustrator/animator to help fill in the spaces of missing WWII Japan images. and, we’ll employ a historian/researcher so we can accurately portray that time period. we’ll need to license music, too. one song we have our heARTs set on costs a whopping $10,000.

oil painting

we’ve already been hard at work cataloging Yuri’s heARTwork including her oil paintings on canvas—on wood, on silk cloth, and even clamshells; her wood carvings, her cut and folded paper creations and, of course, all her sewing projects including crocheted high heel shoes, quilts, and knitted dolls. 

oil on clam shells

wood carved parrot

paper kasa (umbrellas)

crocheted high heels

quilts

knitted dolls

we hope to have that portion of the film done by the end of this year. and, even though that’s just weeks away, it will be the easier part.

 Yuriko means Lily in Japanese

here’s where some of Yuri’s paintings can be seen now:

https://lenastarwheels.wixsite.com/iamartistyuriko

meanwhile, we’ll be processing mini DVD and super 8mm footage of Yuri throughout the years. some of it dates back to the late 1960’s. far out! groovy!

please join us via your contributions. we would really appreciate your help, and we do list each and every name publicly (unless you prefer that we don’t).

besides social media, we’ll also post your name on our Tokyo Lily website:

https://hapateez.wixsite.com/tokyo-lily

if you’d like to know more about our past war bride film projects, check us out at:

https://watermelonsushi.gumroad.com/

https://www.youtube.com/@warbridesofjapan/videos 

https://www.youtube.com/c/WatermelonSushi/videos 

www.warbridesofjapan.com

here’s to a wonderful holiday season to you and yours! arrigatou.

Yuri's Fans Forever

is your HEART into ART?

do you love art? is your heart into art? then, welcome!

on the 8th day of every month, we will feature heARTwork by Yuri, right here at this blog.

a brief bio…

born in Tokyo, Yuriko left for the U.S. after marrying an American soldier. Living in Texas, Germany and Washington State, she raised two children and six different dogs named Bosco, Tiger, Lulu, Shogun, Princess and Muffin.

all her life, Yuriko made art. besides being a talented seamstress who could sew anything by hand, she also made quilts, crocheted doilies and miniature high heels, knitted hats and shawls, made Japanese dolls, cloth puppets and Noh masks, carved illustrations in wood, created all kinds of knickknacks, and eventually painted in oils on canvass, clam shells and wood.

some of Yuriko’s heARTwork in oils can be seen at this website:

http://lenastarwheels.wix.com/iamartistyuriko

coming soon…photos of her delicious home-grown, home-cooked meals!

in celebration of Yuriko’s April 8th birthday (and Buddha's), we present you with these selections from her collection of oil painted farmhouses. even though she grew up in the big city of Tokyo, she was just a country girl at heART.

please remember, all images are copyright protected.

and, you can "like" our Facebook War Brides of Japan page featuring Yuri here: 

https://www.facebook.com/WarBridesOfJapan

ja!

 Yuri’s Fans Forever