Shiffert, Edith Marcombe

found: LC in WLN, 9/7/83(hdg.: Shiffert, Edith (Marcombe); usage: Edith Marcombe Shiffert)

found: Her Kyoto-dwelling, c1987:t.p. (Edith Shiffert) jacket (lives in Kyoto, Japan; b. 1916)

found: New York times WWW site, viewed June 12, 2017(in obituary published June 11: Edith Shiffert; b. Edith Marion Marcombe, Jan. 9, 1916, Toronto; her family moved to the U.S. when she was a young child, and she lived variously in Rochester, Detroit, and Redondo Beach, Calif.; moved to Hawaii in 1938, remaining until 1945; m. Steven R. Shiffert, 1940 (div. 1970); over time lived with him in Hawaii, Alaska, California, and in a log cabin they built in the Washington State wilderness; moved to Kyoto, 1963; m. Minoru Sawano, 1981 (d. 2004); d. Mar. 1, Kyoto, aged 101; American poet whose work was profoundly influenced by the half-century she spent in Japan)