Taylor Wilson

Taylor Wilson is a volunteer writer for Discover Nikkei. She has always enjoyed the culture of Japan from a young age, starting with interests in Japanese game series, anime, and manga. Over the years, her appreciation and interest in Japan and its rich culture has expanded beyond those three media forms. Her additional interests include reading a wide variety of books, writing, cooking, and learning about many different topics. She’s very excited to be a part of Discover Nikkei’s work and help in their mission of sharing the voices of this wonderful community.

Updated September 2022

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An Interview with Katie Yamasaki on Her New Book Shapes, Lines, and Light — Part 2

  • By Taylor Wilson
  • 21 Nov 2022
Read part 1 >> TW: Did your family help you in doing research about your grandfather? If so, what was it like to hear your family’s stories about your grandfather and was there anything interesting you learned from your family? KY: My father especially is a treasure chest of stories of my grandfather, but so is my uncle Taro and so was my aunt Carol. Everyone had their own relationship with our grandfather, so all of their stories are different which was among my greatest challenges in making the book. How do you honor the essence of someone who had varied and complex imp…

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An Interview with Katie Yamasaki on Her New Book Shapes, Lines, and Light — Part 1

  • By Taylor Wilson
  • 20 Nov 2022
Within our families we have stories that we wish to tell the world to encourage others, share the journey of beloved family members, and more. These stories can take a number of different forms, like traditional biographies or even as children’s picture books. Well, recently the author Katie Yamasaki released her new children’s book Shapes, Lines, and Light, which shares the touching story of her grandfather’s life and work. Shapes, Lines, and Light is a children’s picture book about the life of Minoru Yamasaki, a renowned Japanese-American architect. The book begin…

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Invisible Vision: Roy Wesley’s Reflections on His Book, His Father, and Family History

  • By Taylor Wilson
  • 16 Sep 2022
In today’s world, it might seem that the study of history, like understanding or listening to our family’s stories, would seem unimportant as we get busier and busier with our day-to-day lives. However, history can play an important role in understanding the world we live in, as it has worked to shape the world we experience now. Also, when we look back at our ancestors’ stories, we can learn that they may have had similar struggles to us or they experienced things that could give us context for how we can go about our modern lives. Through historical learning, we can lea…

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