Because many works are undated, this chronology separates documented dates from contextual information preserved through family testimony.
1934.11.08
Born. Raised in a family connected to a model-making business, where materials and crafted objects were embedded in daily life.
DOCUMENTED / FAMILY ARCHIVE
WARTIME / POSTWAR
War destroyed the family’s former livelihood. Debt connected to the family home continued to place pressure on postwar life.
FAMILY TESTIMONY
ART EDUCATION
Worked as a junior-high-school art teacher while continuing to make paintings, ceramics and calligraphy.
FAMILY RECORD
1973
Mandala of Hands and Eyes bears a 1973 date, providing an early fixed point for her symbolic and chromatic language.
DATED WORK · YN-059
2014.08
A Body within the Turning Shell bears the date August 2014, demonstrating the late continuation of her symbolic colour system.
DATED WORK · YN-050
2026.06.24
Died, leaving an extensive body of painting, ceramics, calligraphy and family material in the home and studio.
DOCUMENTED
2026—
The family begins photography, fixed-number cataloguing and digital recovery before the house and collection are dispersed.
ESTATE ARCHIVE
The chronology will be revised when inscriptions, school records, exhibition materials, photographs or other primary documents are identified.