A Book of Letters

These smiling faces posed at the end of the Book Party at the YT Asilomar Retreat for the book:

Autumn Loneliness; the letters of Kiyoshi and Kiyoko Tokutomi, Hardscratch Press, 2009.

Left to right, Patricia Machmiller and Tei Matsushita Scott, who translated the letters;

Mr. Tokutomi's sister in light hat and the two sisters of Kiyoko Tokutomi. 

all of whom live now in the United States.

An enlarged photo of Kiyoko about the time she came from Japan (1955)
is displayed behind them.

. . . What is remembered of our lives
are the moments of connection with others . . ,
Kiyoshi and Kiyoko Tokutomi are remembered
for their warmth as haiku teachers 
and for their contribution in transmitting
genuine "haiku culture"
from Japan to America. . . 
Patricia Donegan, poet, translator
and author of Haiku Mind.
(from the back cover of the book)