[1] Kodama was the daughter of an Argentine mother of Swiss-German, English and Spanish descent and a Japanese father.

She collaborated with him in Breve antología anglosajona (1978) and Atlas (1984, an account of their travels together) and in the translation of the Younger Edda by Snorri Sturluson.

[3] This was a common practice for Argentines wishing to circumvent the restrictions on divorce in their country at the time, and Borges was already married once but for many years estranged from his first wife.

At the time of the wedding, Borges was terminally ill and died of cancer in Geneva, Switzerland, on 14 June 1986.

[4] Kodama was president of the Fundación Internacional Jorge Luis Borges, which she founded in Buenos Aires in 1988.