Ume Kimura
Names: Ume KimuraDr. KimuraUme
First appears in Book 1: Intervention, chapter 47 (1)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: Intervention
- Ch 47Ume is a Japanese visiting fellow at Dartmouth, an operant with a densely screened mind, who has manifested modest actinic radiation projection.
- Ch 47Ume used empathy to make Rogatien admit he interfered in Lucille and Bill's relationship, then transmitted to him a complex thought-construct on psychic and physical energy.
- Ch 47Ume is a metapsychology researcher who agrees to keep Roger uninvolved with the operant community and offers to teach him preceptive techniques in exchange for taking part in experiments.
- Ch 47As a child in Sapporo, Ume discovered she could imprint images of her thoughts onto photographic film, including film outside a camera and shielded from light.
- Ch 47Ume's father, a struggling photographer, exploited her talent, hoping for fame; he died by falling in front of a subway train a week after her failed TV appearance.
- Ch 47Ume's parents were Ainu-descended and ashamed of it; her fair skin and exotic looks made her the unfavored child.
- Ch 47Ume and Roger became close friends and creative partners rather than conventional lovers, using carezza to make shared abstract psychocreative 'art'.
- Ch 67Ume moved back to Sapporo the previous summer; Rogi has a strained relationship with her.
- Ch 72Ume Kimura, an operant from Hokkaido, cultivated tsuki-no-kokoro, the mind as calm as the moon, and was a teacher who never coerced.
- Ch 72Despairing over the failure of the operants' peace dream, Ume sent Rogatien a farewell videogram and killed herself with psychocreative flame.
- Ch 72Ume felt shame over having long ago turned away from her family and humiliated her father as a girl.
Connections
- friend ofLucillecoworkers and close friends
- member ofMetapsychic Lab
- friend ofRogi Remillardcreative partners and occasional lovers
- related toDr. Reiko Sasakimentor and surrogate mother
- partner ofRogi Remillard
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 47Lucille and Ume visit Rogatien's bookshop
On 21 September 1992 Lucille and Ume asked Rogatien to join their creativity experiments. Lucille tried a coercive probe, which he resisted, then fled in tears over Sampson. Rogatien admitted to Ume that he interfered.
- Book 1 · Ch 47Ume transmits a thought-construct
Ume asked Rogatien to work with her and sent him a complex telepathic construct on physical and psychic energy correlation, which he understood.
- Book 1 · Ch 47Roger agrees to the experiments
Ume persuades Roger to join her creativity experiments, promising to keep Lucille away and respect his wish for noninvolvement.
- Book 1 · Ch 47Night of carezza
At Ume's house, she shares her life story telepathically and leads Roger through slow carezza; they create a shared psychocreative vision and wake as best friends.
- Book 1 · Ch 54Wedding of Denis and Lucille
On 22 July 1995, Denis Remillard and Lucille Cartier wed in Hanover's Catholic church, attended by Glenn Dalembert and Ume Kimura, then left for a symposium in Brussels.
- Book 1 · Ch 72Rogatien receives Ume's farewell videogram
At the Hanover post office on 24 September 2012, Rogatien finds a videogram from Ume Kimura and realises she means to die; he runs to his shop to watch it.
- Book 1 · Ch 72Ume Kimura's suicide
In her recorded message Ume explains the split at Oslo and her despair, then ignites herself with psychocreative flame, ending the recording.