Lensey Namioka

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Lensey Namioka (born June 14, 1929) is a Chinese-born American writer of books for young adults and children.

She writes about China and Chinese American families, as well as Japan, her husband's home country.

Early life and education

She was born in Beijing as Lensey Chao, the daughter of linguist Yuenren Chao and physician Buwei Yang Chao. The family moved frequently in China. The Chaos were living in Nanjing in 1937 and then migrated westward in the face of the Japanese invasion. They eventually made their way to Hawaii and then to Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Lensey Chao learned no English when she came from China at the age of nine. Math seemed more comprehensible to her than other academic subjects because it used the same numerals irrespective of languages.

Lensey Chao went to Radcliffe College and the University of California, where her father was a professor of Asian Studies, to study mathematics. Here she met and married Isaac Namioka, a fellow graduate student who was born in Japan. Namioka completed a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in math.

Lensey Namioka is the only one known to have the first name "Lensey." Her name is one of a Chinese person born in China: there are no Chinese characters to represent it. When Lensey's father was describing all of the phonemes used in Chinese, he discovered that there were two syllables that were used in the Chinese language but not in any Chinese words. In Gwoyeu Romatzyh, these syllables may have been characterized as "len" and "sey." His third daughter was born soon after, so he gave her the name "Lensey."

Personal life

The Namiokas migrated to Ithaca, New York, where Isaac taught at Cornell University and Lensey taught at Wells College. Isaac accepted a position at the University of Washington in Seattle in 1964, when the family moved to Seattle.

Aki (born 1959) and Michi (born 1961). Namioka has two children.

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Career

Namioka's first passion has been reading and writing adventure stories. She read Chinese martial arts books as a child, as well as Sherlock Holmes tales and The Three Musketeers. She wrote her first book on scrap paper that she stitched together with thread at the age of 8. It was about a woman warrior named the Princess with a Bamboo Sword. Namioka Castle in the 1970s on a trip to Japan. The experience compelled her to learn more about the Samurai. This research culminated in the publication of The Samurai and the Long-nosed Devils in 1976. Namioka grew this book into a complete series of books about samurai in nineteenth-century Japan.

Namioka has also published a series of books about a Chinese American family named Yang, as well as travel guides on Japan and China.

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