My Sachio: A Personal Study of Muralist Sachio Yamashita--Omaha, Nebraska 1981 - 1982

In 1981, muralist Sachio Yamashita became the artist-in-residence at the Omaha Children's Museum in Omaha, Nebraska. This was at the same time that I (the author) was working as the floor manager at the museum. We quickly became friends and I enjoyed unlimited exposure to Sachio and his art. Although this friendship lasted only one short year, Sachio became a lifelong influence on many facets of my life.

During our association with the Omaha Children's Museum, I recorded some of Sachio' art along with a handful of candid images as Polaroid SX-70 instant prints. After I left the museum in 1982, I stored these prints in an archival film collection and quickly forgot about them. That is, until 2009.

Sadly, Sachio died in 2009. I waited for the art community to recognize and honor Sachio's art, but, alas no retrospective exhibitions have been produced during the last 3 years.

Now, taking matters into my own hands, I have recorded my recollections from 30 years ago and filled an annotated gallery with rare, one-of-a-kind photographs and memories and included it inside this book, "My Sachio: A Personal Study of Muralist Sachio Yamashita--Omaha, Nebraska 1981 - 1982."

Inside "My Sachio" you will find:

- 20+ photographs of Sachio's art
- all photographs are one-of-a-kind and from my personal collection
- photographs are high-resolution and full-color that can be enlarged by the reader for detailed examination
- all images use the special Kindle Fire "double tap" image enlargement gesture control
- enlarged images are nearly equal in dimensions to the original SX-70 prints
- published exclusively for the Kindle Fire (i.e., KF8 format)
- approximately 50+ pages of text and images in length

After reading my short glimpse into the life and work of Sachio, I hope that you feel suitably excited to seek out all of his murals that "decorate" the U.S. I encourage you to upload your photographs of each newly "found" Sachio Yamashita mural to this Amazon product page (i.e., contribute your photos as a "customer image"), my Author's page, or my blog. Together we can help preserve an art legacy that the critics missed (so far!).

UPDATED: 25 March 2013 - Fixed problem that prevented book from paging properly.