Sunday, January 1, 2017

My Gawsh, Kiyoshi Yamashita

Like, Wow.

1922-71.

Autistic savant and wanderer.

Painter. Also, he employed "the Chigiri-e method of sticking torn pieces of coloured paper together" to render scenes he recalled with eidetic precision (the savant part).

Actually, his Wiki bio doesn't even mention autism. It's clear there was some sort of disability and his I.Q was given as 68. But who knows with tests and people's inclinations or disinclinations to care about them.



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