**early life and career** tomie ohtake nakakubo, a renowned japanese-brazilian visual artist, was born on november 21, 1913, in kyoto, japan. her life took an unexpected turn when she traveled to brazil in 1936 at the age of twenty-three to visit her brother but was unable to return due to the pacific theater of world war ii. **artistic journey** tomie ohtake's artistic journey began in earnest in 1951, after a visit to keisuke sugano'…