Story about Fumiko, a schoolgirl who just confessed her love. But she gets turned down because the boy wants to concentrate on baseball training. Crying and running downhill through the town, she gains more and more speed. Fumiko is the Eldest daughter of the rulers of Yureimoto Village: Osamu and Amaya Yureimoto. Growing up Fumiko and her siblings were mostly kept inside the wall of their estate by their farther, but with encouragement from there sister Emiko, the siblings would spend time together exploring the various forest and mountains. Though Fumiko didn’t participant much in the actual activities.

About the artist

Japanese artist Fumiko Toda grew up in a rural community outside of Kyoto. Feeling alienated, lonely and oppressed by Japan's rigid school system, the young Toda often escaped to a nearby pond where she would observe insects and bugs for hours. These tiny creatures eventually worked their way into her artwork, where they remain to this day. She eventually studied at the Sugii Art Institution in Mie, and graduated from Kyoto University of Art and Design in 2000.
In 2001, Toda moved to New York City, where she studied painting with Sonia Gechtoff, figurative drawing with Costa Vavagiakis and printmaking with William Behnken and Kathy Carraccio at the National Academy of Fine Art through 2007. Toda moves seamlessly between the realms of painting and printmaking and has exhibited her work extensively. Her paintings and prints have an obsessive quality of intricate detail, repetition of forms and patterns, all rendered with colors so vibrant, as to appear as if they were ground from pure minerals and substances found only in nature, or in the insects themselves. She eschews sketching and reference materials, etching directly onto zinc plates, applying complex techniques, such as chine colle and a la poupee. Toda attributes her sense of design, space and line to her years in Japanese art schools, such skills and craftsmanship are emphasized.

Toda has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions in NYC and at The Affordable Art Fair, NYC, in addition to The Second Bangkok Triennale International Print and Drawing Exhibition, Thailand. In 2008, Toda participated in the 183rd Annual An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art at The National Academy Museum, NYC.

Fumiko (ふみこ) is a feminine Japanese given name.

Fumiko Hoeft

Possible writings[edit]

• 文子 (sentence, child) - also can be read as 'Ayako'
• 富美子 or 冨美子 (wealthy beautiful child)
• 芙美子 (hibiscus, beautiful child)
• 史子 (historical child)

People with the name[edit]

• Fumiko Aoki, a cross-country skier (富美子)
• Fumiko Enchi, a writer active in the Shōwa period (文子)
• Fumiko Hayashi (author) (林 芙美子, 1903 or 1904 – 1951), Japanese writer and poet
• Fumiko Hayashi (politician) (林 文子, born 1946), Japanese politician
• Fumiko Hori (堀 文子, 1918–2019), Japanese artist
• Fumiko Ito (伊藤 文子, born 1940), Japanese long jumper
• Fumiko Kaneko, a Japanese anarchist and nihilist (文子)
• Fumiko Kometani, an author and artist (ふみ子)
• Fumiko Okuno, a Japanese synchronized swimmer (文子)
• Fumiko Orikasa, a singer and voice actress (富美子)
• Fumiko Saiga (齋賀 富美子, 1943–2009), Japanese diplomat
• Fumiko Sakaguchi (坂口 文子, born 1934), Japanese swimmer
• Fumiko Shiraga (白神 典子, 1967-2017), Japanese-German classical pianist
• Fumiko Yonezawa, physicist

References[edit]

Fumiko Erma