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<div>Thanks for the suggestions. But</div>
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<div>neither David Lewis's</div>
<div>googling '(name) jmdb' i.e. '(Yaoya Oshichi) jmdb'</div>
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<div>nor</div>
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<div>Drainer's</div>
<div>name in quotes " " and jmdb outside of the quotes i.e.
"Yaoya Oshichi" jmdb</div>
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<div>works for me. Are you both saying I should input the name with
kanji in Google too?</div>
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<div>Frako Loden</div>
<div>Berkeley</div>
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<div>At 6:19 PM -0400 9/6/07, <drainer@mpinet.net> wrote:</div>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>I've had the same problem searching. This
is particularly hard when you don't know the correct kanji for the
title...<br>
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The search only works with kanji (many sites are like that).<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>The google trick does work, my suggestion
for better results is to redefine the search -- try the name in
quotes " " and jmdb outside of the quotes. So the same thing
David suggested, but have the title in quotes.<br>
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-d<br>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "David Lewis"
<david.lionel.lewis@sympatico.ca><br>
To: <KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu><br>
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 10:25 PM<br>
Subject: Re: films about Yaoya Oshichi<br>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>a search at jmdb with
SǮ produces seven matches, the same seven with<br>
Yaoya Oshichi in their title that were given by Roland Domenig<br>
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as far as I know, jmdb doen't offer kana search (unless, of course,
kana is<br>
part of the name)<br>
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this being said, sometimes search don't work very well from within
jmdb - at<br>
such times, googling '(name) jmdb' usually does the trick<br>
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David Lewis<br>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Frako Loden"
<frako@well.com><br>
To: <KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu><br>
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 6:28 PM<br>
Subject: films about Yaoya Oshichi<br>
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Thank you so much, Sybil . . . Roland . . . Bill! I appreciate
your<br>
help. I should have known there would be loads of cinematic
material<br>
on this story.<br>
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This is information I could have gotten myself, but I have never<br>
successfully searched anything at http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/, for some<br>
strange reason. I type a kana title, e.g. Yaoya Oshichi [in<br>
hiragana], into the search box and nothing comes up.<br>
"Mitsukarimasen." I wonder what I'm failing to do.<br>
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Frako Loden<br>
Berkeley</blockquote>
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