Twilight C

Catalog note / 解説

Thank you for your fast response. I can expand further on what I wrote yesterday, re Twilight and Kwannon. I showed your message and consulted with my wife this morning over breakfast. Her memory of the circumstances surrounding the purchase of the Kawano’s served to jog mine, and we are in agreement. They both were purchased in 1962, at the Tachi East BX (which indeed was an old hangar). The concessionaire was Mrs Conrad, an interesting person. She was White Russian by birth. Her family fled to China somewhere along the line (one of the northern port cities where there was a good sized Russian population, I think), and she went to Japan when the Communists took over China. She was somewhat…