Prizewinning leather artisan Okubo dies at 81

Prizewinning leather artisan Okubo dies at 81

TOKYO, Japan - File photo, taken on Nov. 3, shows Fukuko Okubo, Japan's most celebrated leather artisan, who died at 81 on the evening of Nov. 4 at a hospital in Tokyo. Her death came just one day after she received the Order of Culture from Emperor Akihito at the Imperial Palace along with Nobel laureate Hideki Shirakawa and four others.

  • Product Code
  • ILEA001082394
  • Registered date
  • 2000/11/04 00:00:00
  • Credit
  • Kyodo / Kyodo News Images
  • Media source
  • 2000 Kyodo News
  • Media size
  • 1864 × 2083 pixel
  • Resolution
  • dpi
  • Deployment size
  • 1.46(MB)*
  • Special instruction

*File size when opened in Photoshop, etc.

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