Edward Moreno
@o2gawaraAos 91 anos, Ed Moreno acumulou quase setenta anos de trabalho na mídia – televisão, jornais e revistas. Ed recebeu numerosas honras pelo seu trabalho como escritor, editor, e tradutor. Sua paixão pela cultura japonesa teve início em 1951 e pelo visto seu ardor nunca diminuiu. Atualmente, ele escreve uma coluna sobre tópicos culturais e históricos relacionados aos japoneses e nikkeis no “Newsette”, uma publicação mensal do Centro Comunitário Japonês da Área Leste do Vale de San Gabriel em West Covina [cidade-satélite na área da Grande Los Angeles], na Califórnia. Antes de fechar, a revista “The East” (“O Leste”), de Tóquio, publicou alguns de seus artigos originais.
Atualizado em março de 2012
Stories from This Author
Dialogue With an Old Friend
23 de Fevereiro de 2012 • Edward Moreno
Pretending I had to search for a book, I wormed myself in to take a last look at my dying old friend. I sat there a few minutes all miserable, and muttered: “Dear friend, why do you have to go?”The answer came fast: “Stop bawling! It bothers me.” “How can anyone be so insensitive?” I said. “Insensitive, huh? I served you very well for over fifty-six years. Think of all our beautiful moments together. I’ve already heard so many comforting prayers inside …
Frank’s Bequest
10 de Fevereiro de 2012 • Edward Moreno
The on-shore winds have danced all night up and down over Rose Hills. They have then come down full speed, however humble, and with their innards laden with ocean moisture; now they are crawling eastward, along Puente Avenue. By six and even seven AM, the dew is gratefully absorbed by the unnatural vegetation that the residents have forced on this arid bend of California’s soil. In one of your early morning runs or walks, deliberately stop for a moment in …
Go-Getter Extraordinaire
11 de Março de 2011 • Edward Moreno
Yo Maeda called from her cell phone letting us know she was thoroughly lost. “You’re not too far away,” I told her. “Back track, I’ll lead you.” In a couple of minutes, she was here, safely. She had brought a lot of things for us to price, for our coming Hanamatsuri. Carton after carton full of dolls, jewelry, toy, fans, etc. kept coming out of her little Prius. I asked, “Gosh, where did you get all this? “From my friends,” …
New Year's Lore
31 de Dezembro de 2010 • Edward Moreno
It was the middle of the night, literally; I was sound asleep recovering from the hassles of the New Year. My shoulder began to shake strongly, and I woke up fearing an earthquake. I saw two enormous sticks holding something dark at the end, and pointing at my mouth, and wondered whether I was experiencing a vivid dream. Then I heard the wife’s command: “Open your mouth! It is Oshogatsu, and we forgot to eat this. We want to stick …
Kokeshi
22 de Novembro de 2010 • Edward Moreno
Everybody has a favorite Japanese doll, but the luxurious kimekomi seem the most popular, with the Hakata not far behind. My passion is kokeshi, substantiated by a hoard of over four-hundred pieces. Oh, that’s nothing! In Dallas, Texas, two wonderful friends have already exceeded the TWENTY-FIVE HUNDRED count, and they just keep acquiring. One of their latest finds is a doll, tall as a seven-year old child, and twice as heavy. As if that weren’t enough, my friends are now …
Ningyo II – The Poetry of Dolls
12 de Outubro de 2010 • Edward Moreno
Read Part 1 >>Three years after it happened, I am still grieving about the demise of Ningyo Journal, an ambitious periodical that J.A.D.E. (Japanese Asian Doll Enthusiasts) published from 1993 to 2004. It cost only eighteen dollars per year, but it always packed a wallop as an instrument for learning about Japanese dolls. Its earlier issues were valiant attempts at desk-top publishing, which the editors kept constantly improving. By the time it disappeared, it was being printed on first-rate coated …
Ningyo I – Divine Shape and Human Form
5 de Outubro de 2010 • Edward Moreno
At Centenary Church’s annual bazaar1, I stopped at a table full of discards, and asked the saleslady how much for “THAT?”…a pair of old paper dolls inside a flimsy cardboard box. She dawdled; her eyes swept me from top to bottom, and she left to confer with her associates. While their chat was inaudible, their raised eyebrows, nods, and shoulder-shrugging were raucous. The woman came back, and trying to hide a smirk, she hinted: “A…dollar?” Quickly, I handed her the …
Sushi em Los Angeles – parte 2
10 de Agosto de 2010 • Edward Moreno
>> Parte 1O alvo inicial do novo empreendimento do Sr. Nakajima no ramo do sushi eram os imigrantes japoneses, especialmente os homens de negócios. Impressionados com o produto, eles começaram a trazer seus clientes americanos para experimentar algo novo e extraordinário. Depois de sua primeira experiência com o sushi, a maioria dos iniciados ficavam viciados. O sushi bar de Kawafuku tinha apenas sete assentos e estava sempre lotado. O Chef Saito de Kawafuku se tornou o primeiro chef de sushi …
Sushi em Los Angeles – parte 1
3 de Agosto de 2010 • Edward Moreno
Em um de nossos encontros semanais em Maryknoll [Centro Católico Japonês em Los Angeles], eu perguntei aos meus amigos se alguém sabia quando e como o sushi chegou em Los Angeles. Kō Hoshizaki disse que a pessoa certa para responder minhas perguntas seria o Sr. Noritoshi Kanai, o presidente da Mutual Trading Company (MTC), no centro de Los Angeles.1 “Ele até já escreveu um livro sobre o assunto”, Kō disse. Eu não perdi tempo em pedir para sermos apresentados, o …
Ohhh, sushi!
20 de Julho de 2010 • Edward Moreno
Sushi and I made our acquaintance nearly sixty years ago on a train ride from Iwanuma to Sendai. In those days, the government wasn’t as particular as now about “sanitation,” and food vendors were allowed to course the railroad cars offering their wares without anyone batting an eye. As we left Iwanuma, a soft call filled the car: “Sun-bun, suzubentooo…Ocha…ochaaa….” A food vendor was promoting her wares. Muffled giggles followed her call. “Hi, banchan,” a customer called and, with a …
