Editing Yoko Ono (section)

=== Early life and family ===
Ono was born in [[Tokyo City]] on February 18, 1933, to mother {{nihongo|Isoko Ono|小野 磯子|Ono Isoko}} (1911–1999)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.myheritage.nl/names/isoko_ono|title=Isoko Ono|website=Myheritage.nl|access-date=2022-02-07|archive-date=January 13, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220113093017/https://www.myheritage.nl/names/isoko_ono|url-status=live}}</ref> and father {{nihongo|Eisuke Ono|小野 英輔|Ono Eisuke}}, a wealthy banker and former [[classical pianist]].<ref name="allmusicB">{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/yoko-ono-mn0000521704/biography|title=Yoko Ono: biography|publisher=AllMusic|access-date=February 1, 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140130101749/http://www.allmusic.com/artist/yoko-ono-mn0000521704/biography|archive-date=January 30, 2014}}</ref> Isoko's adoptive maternal grandfather {{nihongo|[[Zenjiro Yasuda]]|安田 善次郎|Yasuda Zenjirō}} was an affiliate of the [[Yasuda clan]] and [[Yasuda zaibatsu|zaibatsu]]. Eisuke came from a long line of [[samurai]] warrior-scholars.<ref name="Stan" /> The [[kanji]] translation of [[Yoko (name)|''Yōko'']] ({{lang|ja|洋子}}) means "ocean child".<ref name="allmusicB" /><ref name="nme" /> Two weeks before Ono's birth, Eisuke was transferred to [[San Francisco|San Francisco, California]], by his employer, the [[Yokohama Specie Bank]].<ref name="sayle" /> The rest of the family followed soon after, with Ono first meeting her father when she was two years old.<ref name="allmusic">{{cite web|title=Yoko Ono – Charts & Awards – Billboard Singles|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/yoko-ono-p19685/charts-awards/billboard-singles|website=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=January 12, 2014}}</ref> Her younger brother Keisuke was born in December 1936.{{citation needed|date=July 2022}}

In 1937, the family was transferred back to Japan, and Ono enrolled at Tokyo's elite [[Gakushūin]] (also known as the Peers School), one of the most exclusive schools in Japan.<ref name="sayle" /> Ono was enrolled in [[piano lesson]]s from the age of 4, until the age of 12 or 13.<ref name="MH231">{{harvnb|Munroe|Ono|Hendricks|Altshuler|2000|p=231}}</ref> She attended [[kabuki]] performances with her mother, who was trained in [[shamisen]], [[koto (instrument)|koto]], [[otsuzumi]], [[kotsuzumi]], [[nagauta]], and could read Japanese musical scores.{{citation needed|date=July 2022}}

The family moved to [[New York City]] in 1940. The next year, Eisuke was transferred from New York City to [[Hanoi]] in [[French Indochina]], and the family returned to Japan. Ono was enrolled in Keimei Gakuen, an exclusive Christian primary school run by the [[Mitsui]] family. She remained in Tokyo throughout [[World War II]] and the [[Bombing of Tokyo (10 March 1945)|fire-bombing of March 9, 1945]], during which she was sheltered with other family members in a special [[bunker]] in Tokyo's [[Azabu]] district, away from the heavy bombing. Ono later went to the [[Karuizawa, Nagano|Karuizawa]] [[mountain resort]] with members of her family.<ref name="sayle"/>

Starvation was rampant in the destruction that followed the Tokyo bombings; the Ono family was forced to beg for food while pulling their belongings in a wheelbarrow. Ono said it was during this period in her life that she developed her "aggressive" attitude and understanding of "outsider" status. Other stories tell of her mother bringing a large number of goods to the countryside, where they were [[barter]]ed for food. In one anecdote, her mother traded a German-made [[sewing machine]] for {{convert|60|kg}} of rice to feed the family.<ref name="sayle"/> During this time, Ono's father, who had been in Hanoi, was believed to be in a [[POW camp|prisoner of war camp]] in China. Ono told [[Amy Goodman]] of ''[[Democracy Now!]]'' on October 16, 2007, that "He was in [[French Indochina]], which is Vietnam actually{{nbsp}}... in Saigon. He was in a concentration camp."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.democracynow.org/2007/10/16/exclusive_yoko_ono_on_the_new|title=EXCLUSIVE: Yoko Ono on the New Imagine Peace Tower in Iceland, Art & Politics, the Peace Movement, Government Surveillance and the Murder of John Lennon|last=Goodman|first=Amy|date=October 16, 2007|work=[[Democracy Now!]]|access-date=February 25, 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222184454/http://www.democracynow.org/2007/10/16/exclusive_yoko_ono_on_the_new|archive-date=February 22, 2014}}</ref>

After the war ended in 1945, Ono remained in Japan when her family moved to the United States and settled in [[Scarsdale, New York]], an affluent town {{convert|25|mi}} north of [[midtown Manhattan]]. By April 1946, Gakushūin was reopened and Ono re-enrolled. The school, located near the [[Kōkyo|Tokyo Imperial Palace]], had not been damaged by the war, and Ono found herself a classmate of [[Akihito|Prince Akihito]], the future [[emperor of Japan]].<ref name="allmusicB"/><ref name=Stan/> At 14 years old, she took up vocal training in [[lieder]]-singing.{{citation needed|date=July 2022}}