TWW Japanese Booklet (part 0)

["Martin R. Lamb" <martinn@csri.toronto.edu>]

Really from: Tippi Chai

I got the Box Set Biographical Notes from David Koehler. (Thanks David!)
When I first looked at it, I thought it was identical to the "Chronology" 
from _Kate Bush Complete_.  However, a quick comparison reveals that 
while many entries are almost exactly the same, each work contains info 
that the other one doesn't.  So I guess I *DO* have to translate 
the whole thing.

Before I saw it, I was hoping it won't be written in long complicated 
proses.  Was I relieved to see that it's in point form!  However, the 
transliteration of English proper names into Japanese is really giving me 
a hard time.  Luckily a lot of the info is already in _KB Complete_.  
Otherwise, I'd never have known that "BAKKUSUREEHEESU" is Bexleyheath!

I'm going on vacation for 3 weeks staring Jan 27 (back to Hong Kong for
Chinese New Year; Kung Hay Fat Choy!*)  I'll do the bulk of the translation
then.  Meanwhile, here are the first few entries to whet your appetite.

The [?] marks mean I'm unsure about those re-transliterations.

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This Women's Work 1958-1990 - The Biographical Notes of Kate Bush
Compiled by Hideyo Itoh

1958: Aug 7
Born Catherine Bush at the Bexleyheath Maternity Hospital, Bexley, Kent, 
England.  Her father, Robert John Bush, M.D., was from South Okehampton [?]
and her mother, Hannah, a nurse, was born in Waterford County, [?] Ireland.  
Her two elder brothers are John Carder (Jay), then 14, and Paddy, then 6.

1963
The Bush family moved to Australia.

1964
The family stayed for less than a year in Australia, and returned to Kent.
They began their lives in a wooden Victorian mansion at East Wickham Farm.

Sept
Started school at St Joseph Primary School.

1967: Sept
Began violin lessons while at St Joseph Primary School.  Later, her interest
shifted to the piano.

1969: Sept 4
Started school at St Joseph Convent Grammar School.

Influenced by her two brothers, she listened to traditional English and 
Irish Folk Music, Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Fleetwood Mac, Blind Fish [?], 
and other Contemporary Rock artists.

Began basic piano lessons with her father, and played with Paddy on the violin.
Sang alto in the [church] choir.

1970: June
Her first literary work, a poem titled "The Crucifixion", appeared
in _School Magazine 1969-70_ of the St Joseph Convent Grammar School.
In the same issue, her excellent marks in Grade II Violin was praised.

Began composing.
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I'll leave y'all hanging there.  Expect the rest of it in a month or so.

*Kung Hay Fat Choy = traditional Chinese New Year greeting meaning
"May you get rich!"
--
"The throw of the rose is all you live for" KB

Tippi Chai
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