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Miye Matsukata (1922-1981) was a Japanese master jeweler and silversmith, born in Tokyo, Japan. She was the daughter of Miyo Matsukata, survived by her mother and four sisters, Mrs. Haru Reischauer, Mrs. Naka Rawsthorne, Tane Matsukata, and Mrs. Mari Bruck. She moved to America in 1940 to study at Principia College in Illinois, whereafter she attended the School of the Museum and Fine Arts in Boston. During her second degree, she was awarded travelling scholarships to Scandinavia and Egypt before she established a jewelry firm, Atelier Janiye, in 1950 with two graduates from the School of Museum and Fine Arts in Boston. She managed this small studio as an appointment-only showroom in Boston’s Copely Square. In addition to establishing this jewelry business, she taught briefly in 1976 at the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, in Deer Isle, Maine before her death in 1981. Matsukata died abruptly at 59 years old after being admitted to the Massachusetts General Hospital, possibly of meningitis. Her artwork was later donated to various galleries and exhibits in 1984 by Mrs. Edwin O. Reischauer, one of Matsukata’s sisters, and in 2008 by Ann Hubbard Gaddie, the sister of Matsukata’s business partner and heir. In 1973, some of Matsukata’s jewelry could be found in Joan Sonnabend’s small gallery at the NY Plaza Hotel, and currently various online jewelry exhibits.