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Sadakichi Hartmann


If one hadn't been oneself, it would have been worthwhile being Sadakichi.
Ezra Pound

By this name lived a true saint. Someone named this son of a German father and a Japanese mother "The Most Mysterious Personality in American Letters". He once predicted that California would "eventually secede from the Union." When he was dragged into court in 1918 as a German sympathizer, he scoffed "I hate Germany. I was arrested in Berlin for calling the Kaiser names." The world shook around him. Sadakichi went on painting, writing, acting, and just living all the same. Such is the world that a sane man like Sadikichi qualifies as an eccentric by men and women who do not think.