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below photos
Photo by Pat McFarland used for the cover. [What
is he looking at?]
SR0024
From title page - Shunryu Suzuki walking to the airplane
to fly to America for the first time - May 21, 1959
Lower unused half of this set of photos at end of this
page.
SR0275
Beginning of of inset glossy photos in Crooked Cucumber
Earliest Photo of Shunryu Suzuki, age 14, at upper elementary school
graduation in Mori, c. 1918.
SR0052
Shunryu, age 25, in the Komazawa University senior
yearbook, March 1930.
SR0022
Shunryu at Eiheiji in monk's pilgrimage gear, c. 1930
SR0030
Miss Nona Ransom (Suzuki's English teacher at Komazawa
University), in Tientsin, China, c. 1932.
Nona Ransom main page
SR0051
at Zoun-in c. 1930. (L to R) Shunryu's father Butsumon
Sogaku, Shunryu (squatting), Hino San (Tori's husband), Shunryu's sister
Tori Hino and baby, temple caretaker, Shunryu's mother Yone.
SR0031
At Zoun-in c. 1935. (L to R) Haruko Shima (Shunryu's half
brother Yoshinami's wife) and baby, Shunryu's wife Chie, Shunryu's mother
Yone (squatting), Shunryu's sister Aiko Uchiyama and baby.
SR0032
Shunryu Suzuki's master, Gyokujun So-on Suzuki, age 53, c. 1930.
SR0033
Shunryu Suzuki's teacher, Ian Kishizawa (in white robe), age 85, c.
1950.
SR0034
Shunryu carrying the stick (kyosaku) at Rinso-in during the Pacific
War, while prep school students informally called High Grass Mountain
Group (Takakusayamakai) sit zazen. c. 1945.
SR0035
Rinso-In Temple bells on their way to being melted down to make ship
propellers. Shunryu and Chie Suzuki (Right bottom), 1945.
SR0036
Shunryu with young women's study group, c. 1947
SR0037
The back pond at Rinso-In in, 1996 - photo
by Bill Schwob
SR0038
Chie Suzuki, c. 1950.
SR0039
Chie's mother, Kinu Miramatsu Obaa-san (grandmother), c. 1966.
SR0040
Shunryu with temple member-workers at Rinso-in, c. 1955.
SR0041
Shunryu's family at Haneda Airport in Tokyo, May 21, 1959,
(L to R) His daughter, Yasuko Oishi and her husband, Iwao Oishi, Shunryu's
sons Otohiro and Hoitsu, Shunryu, his wife Mitsu Suzuki, Mitsu's daughter
Harumi Matsuno.
SR0042
Shunryu at gate waving goodbye when he first leaves for
America, May 1959.
SR0043
Shunryu Suzuki Carrying the stick in posed picture in the Sokoji zendo
(normally women on the other side). (L to R) Jean Ross, Betty Warren,
Connie Luick, Della Goertz, Bill Kwong, Grahame Petchey, Paul Anderson,
Bob Hense (c. 1961).
SR0209
Sokoji, Soto Zen Mission, 1881 Bush Street, San Francisco, c. 1965.
SRC0071
Procession Through San
Francisco Japantown during Shunryu Suzuki's Mountain Seat Ceremony, officially becoming the abbot of Sokoji, May 20,
1962. (L to R) Unknown, Taizan Maezumi, Shunryu Suzuki, Wako Kato, Rerin
Yamada, a couple of observers, and a girl in kimono carrying flowers ahead
of the procession.
SR0045
After Shunryu Suzuki Mountain Seat Ceremony, May 20, 1962, members of
Japanese-American congregation, Zen Center, and guests in front of Sokoji.
SR0053
Shunryu and Mitsu Suzuki at the San Francisco Airport on their way to
Japan, April 10, 1963. Others (L to R) Virginia and Richard Baker (holding
Sally), Betty Warren, Connie Luick, Mike and Trudy Dixon, Della Goertz,
Giles Guay, Pauline Petchey (holding David).
SRC0033
(L to R) Shunryu Suzuki, Hoitsu Suzuki, unknown, Grahame Petchey,
Pauline Petchey, Philip Wilson, Claude Dalenberg; Rinso-in, October 1966.
- photograph by Fumiyo Yanagita
SR0044
Sotan Tatsugami, Grahame Petchey, and Philip Wilson at Eiheiji
monastery, Fukui Japan, 1964. - photograph by Genjiro Yagi
SR0054
Shunryu Suzuki and Richard Baker at Tassajara.
- photograph by Tim Buckley 1968
SR0046
Richard Baker and Suzuki Roshi sitting zazen. -
photograph by Tim Buckley 1967
SR0047
The City Center of the San Francisco Zen Center at 300 Page Street, c.
1969. - photograph by Robert Boni
SR0048
Shunryu Suzuki at Tassajara with Dan Welch and Peter Schneider, c.
1968. - Photograph by Tim Buckley
SR0049
Suzuki Roshi lecturing in the zendo at Tassajara in the summer of 1967.
David Chadwick is to the left of his shoulder. - Photograph
by Minoru Aoki
SR0050
Tassajara, Zen Center, [not] first practice period work-time photo as said in the book but just after that - fall 1967.
L to R top row:
Jim Morton,
?,? (young couple from Midwest there summer & fall
says Liz Wolf), Niels Holm, ?,
Buncie Shadden?, EL Hazelwood, Liz Wolf, Tim Buckley, Kobun Chino, Chris Flynn, Mike Daft, ?,?, Noah (dog), Doug Anderson, Nancy Lay (who brought
Noah), .
Middle row:
Bob Halpern, ?, Paul Discoe, ?,
?, Loring Palmer, Jack Elias,
David Chadwick,
Ed Brown, Louise (Pryor)
Welch, Dan Welch, Shunryu Suzuki, Clark Mason, Bob Watkins, Sandy
Watkins, Stan White, Joyce Peterson, Dot Luce or Tom O'Leary. Front row: ?, Ruthie Discoe, Peter Schneider, Jane Westberg (Schneider), Tony Johansen?
- Photograph by Minoru Aoki
SR0055
for hi resolution version | interactive photo with names
Shunryu Suzuki at the City Center, c1970. - Photograph by
Katherine Thanas
He's with Yvonne Rand here, playing with her great-grandmother's glasses
more
SR0006
Shunryu and Mitsu (Okusan) at a Tassajara Wedding Reception, 1970.
- Photograph by Alan Marlowe
SR0013
At Richard Baker's Mountain Seat Ceremony, November 21, 1971, thirteen
days before Suzuki's death. (L to R) Suzuki's eldest son and dharma heir,
Hoitsu, Shunryu Suzuki, his wife Mitsu, Dainin Katagiri. -
Photograph by Robert Boni.
SRC0065
A view of the Santa Lucia mountains as seen from the ridge on the road to Tassajara. - Photograph by Robert Boni.
End of inset glossy photos in Crooked Cucumber
Shunryu Suzuki in 1968 - by Tim Buckley
0n the back cover of the hardback of Crooked Cucumber.
SR0276
Lower unused half of the set of photos of
Suzuki walking to the plane at Hanada Airport in Tokyo on his way
to America for the first time on May 18, 1959. Upper half
above used on title page of Crooked Cucumber.
SR0275
Official Broadway Books promo photo of David Chadwick taken 1998--from
the jacket sleeve.
photograph by Robert Schilling
Thanks to Christopher Modec-Halverson for getting the inset photos ready and to Charlie Conrad at Broadway Books for sending the PDF of the inset photos since we couldn't find them all in the photo archive and to Dan Kaplan for looking for them and writing down a lot of the captions - and to Wendy Lewis at the SFZC for locating the front and back cover photos. - dc
