Toshiko Akiyoshi Smithsonian Interview Block 64 (Q18017)

My oldest sisters name is Hisako (spells it). The second sisters name is Miyoko, who is alive and well, we are very close. And the third sister, it was interesting: my father, like any other Japanese father, uh, man, they always wanted to have a boy. So they got a girl, the next one was a girl, then the third one was also a girl, so he was hoping, he said, "Well, this will be the zero for the ...