Vintage “Lady Bouchier\" Dorothy Britton Hand Signed 4X3 Card dated 1932 for Sale

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Vintage “Lady Bouchier\" Dorothy Britton Hand Signed 4X3 Card dated 1932 For Sale

Up for sale a RARE! "Lady Bouchier" Dorothy Britton Hand Signed 4X3 Card Dated 1932.

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Dorothy Guyver Britton, Lady Bouchier MBE (14

February 1922 – 25 February 2015) was born in Yokohama, moved to the United States at the age of 13, and was educated in

the United States and England, returning to Japan after the American Occupation. She

was best known as a translator into English of Tetsuko Kuroyanagi's Madogiwa

no Totto-chan as Totto-chan,

the Little Girl at the Window, and Oku no Hosomichi by Basho: A Haiku Journey – Basho's Narrow Road to a Far

Province. She was the author of The Japanese Crane: Bird of

Happiness and co-author of National Parks of Japan. Dorothy

Britton was also a poet and composer, and was a pupil of Darius Milhaud. She was known for her popular album Japanese

Sketches, in which Tetsuko Kuroyanagi's

father is violin soloist. Her husband, Air Vice Marshal Sir Cecil ("Boy") Bouchier,

K.B.E., C.B., D.F.C. was the first commander of the Indian Air Force and

a station commander during the Battle of Britain. Lady Bouchier was appointed Member of

the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2010 Birthday

Honours.

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