After meeting Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada at Black Mountain College, North Carolina she gained Hamada's agreement to work with him at Mashiko and travelled there in 1958, by cargo boat.
After meeting Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada at Black Mountain College, North Carolina, she gained Hamada's agreement to work with him at Mashiko after he had returned to Japan. She travelled there in 1958, by cargo boat.