Toki Matsudaira who is the author of this book, was Born in 1944 in Tokyo, Japan. She was educated in the Sacred Heart School in Albany, New York, and then embarked on a one-year study at the French Lycee in Manhattan in the late 1950's. Her immediate and famous novelist writer relation of the family was Yukio Mishima, and many years ago, the more famous Lady Murasak, who wrote "The Tale of Genji", a story of Court Life in the 16th century Japan...