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Born in Tokyo, Japan in 1926. She studied at Tokyo Christian University and left, but returned some years later to study fashion design. This was after she had married Kei Mori and had two sons named Aki and Kei.She began dressmaking for the Japanese film industry. She opened her first shop in Tokyo in 1951. In 1955 she moved to the Ginza, the smart shopping area of Tokyo. Over the next decade, she designed costumes for hundreds of Japanese movies, including Ozu's "Early Autumn."
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