takuma

Updated: May 1, 2025

This heroic and pathetic record was written in form of a letter by the commander of a Japanese submarine, Lieutenant Takuma Faotomu, whose boat, with its entire crew, was lost on April 15, 1910, during manoeuvres in Hiroshima Bay.

Willis J. (Willis John) Abbot - Aircraft and Submarines: The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day: Uses of War's Newest Weapons

The epoch also boasted Fujiwara Tameuji, founder of the Takuma family of artists, and Fujiwara Motomitsu, founder of the Tosa academy. The sculpture of the time showed greater skill, but less grandeur of conception, than the work of the Nara masters. Sculpture in wood was important, dating especially from the 11th century.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era