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She was at her wits’ end and broke when in 1902 she heard that a Japanese impresario was looking for dancers for an exposition in Copenhagen. She married a man twenty years older than her and endured ten years of marriage, then decided to get a divorce. When she was ten her family fell into debt. From the age of five she learned Japanese classical dance and the yakumo koto, a zither-like instrument. Her family trained their daughters to have a profession, to be entertainers, i.e. Hanako was a tough, resilient, sparky little woman - very little at 38 she was only 4 foot 6 inches tall (1 meter 37 cm), so tiny and girlish that westerners assumed she was much younger.īorn Ohta Hisa in 1868 in Aichi, Central Japan, she was the oldest of eight children. ‘A tiny Japanese gifted with graceful form, lively eyes, a rebellious nose, feline movements.’ He later said that there was ‘a flame which illuminated her from within.’ Inside a small Japanese dancer was performing a death scene. There he happened to pass a small hut temporarily erected in the woods with banners in front proclaiming the name of the troupe in white on a red background. That year he went to Marseilles to the Colonial Exposition to sketch the Cambodian dancers. He seemed to have lost his spark, his edge, the anger which had driven his creativity.īut he was still obsessed with capturing the body in motion. In disappointment, Rodin transformed himself into an official artist, churning out busts of famous, well-paying personalities.
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Nearly a decade had passed since 1898, when he’d laboured over Balzac, but his masterwork had been rejected. But his great years seemed to be behind him.
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He had brought sculpture into the modern age with his powerfully muscular, uncompromising works like The Kiss and The Thinker. In 1906 Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) was 67 and hugely famous.