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  • Dorothy Britton (Lady Bouch...
    HUGH CORTAZZI; PAUL NORBURY

    Britain & Japan: Biographical Portraits, Vol. X, 10/2016
    Book Chapter

    Dorothy Bouchier was a poet, composer, teacher, author and translator, who was bilingual in English and Japanese and bridged English and Japanese culture. She was so in tune with Japanese culture that one of her mother’s Japanese friends described her as ‘Japanese wearing a Western skin’. Dorothy Guyver Britton (Lady Bouchier), who died on 25 February 2015 aged ninety-three, was born on Valentine’s Day (14 February) 1922. She had been due to visit London in early March to make a presentation to the Japan Society on her newly published memoir, which is memorably entitledRhythms, Rites and Ritualsand is