<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:bookman old style, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477286842376_75399"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477286842376_75398">A great loss.  One of his best performances was in the little-known 2002 <i id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477286842376_75541">Onna kunishuu ikki</i>, in Miike Takashi's anthology of three short historical films about Kumamoto, <i id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477286842376_75577">Kumamoto monogatari</i>.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477286842376_75399"><span>Cheers,</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477286842376_75399"><span>Sybil</span></div><div></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477286842376_74165"> </div><div class="signature" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477286842376_74155">Sybil Thornton, MA, PhD (Cantab)  <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477286842376_74163">Associate Professor</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477286842376_74161">Premodern Japanese History </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477286842376_74159">School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies  </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477286842376_74157">Arizona State University </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477286842376_74154">Tempe, AZ  85287-4302 </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477286842376_75596">Tel:  480-965-5778 </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477286842376_75598">Fax:  480-965-0310</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477286842376_75600"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477286842376_75604"><span style="font-size:14px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477286842376_75603"><a rel="nofollow" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477286842376_75602" href=""><span style="font-weight:bold;">"</span>The Return Song and the Myth of the Founding of the Nation in <span style="font-style:italic;">Vreme na nasilie</span>,<span style="font-weight:bold;">" </span><span style="font-style:italic;">Athens Journal of History </span>2 no. 3 (October 2016), 149-167.</a></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477286842376_75607"><span style="font-size:14px;"><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477286842376_75613"><span style="font-size:14px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477286842376_75612"><div class="MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477286842376_75611"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__publications.nichibun.ac.jp_en_item_jare_2015-2D12-2D15_pub&d=DQMFaQ&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=e7qMG9KFq7WNnPQWULWHJA&m=MmEVgetKXnVpxXXVP-kEXzOnCQ1gBX7g-maR6eHYff0&s=c3NLSWpQqQJ0SWvl5sNvVc647CXYIJnCCOLJeFTokIg&e=" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477286842376_75610"><i id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477286842376_75609">“Meitokuki</i>:  Earthquakes and Literary Fabrication in the <i>gunki monogatari.</i>”<i>Japan </i><i>Review</i> 28 (October 2015): 225-234.</a></div><div class="MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477286842376_75615"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477286842376_75618"><span lang="EN-GB" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477286842376_75617">“Shintō Art,” in <i>The Oxford Handbook of Religion and the Arts</i>,
ed. by Frank Burch </span>Brown
(Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 2014).</div><div class="MsoNormal"></div></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477286842376_75620"><span style="font-size:14px;"><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1477286842376_75622"><span style="font-size:14px;"><br></span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;">  <div style="font-family: bookman old style, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum via KineJapan <kinejapan@lists.osu.edu><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum <kinejapan@lists.osu.edu> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, October 24, 2016 5:52 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [KineJapan] Hira Mikijiro<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv5171754761"><div>The news services report that actor Hira Mikijiro has died at age 82. While primarily a stage 
actor, he also appeared a lot in films and on television. His films include Three Outlaw Samurai, The Face of Another, Rampo, Pistol Opera, Princess Raccoon, and 13 Assassins. For anime 
fans, he was the voice of Grunwald in Taiyo no Oji. He was trained at 
the Haiyuza at the same time Nakadai Tatsuya was (Nakadai was one year senior), 
so I suppose this is a bit of a shock to Nakadai (who arrives at Yale on
 Tuesday).<div class="yiv5171754761"><br class="yiv5171754761"></div><div class="yiv5171754761"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__mainichi.jp_articles_20161024_k00_00m_040_104000c&d=DQMFaQ&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=e7qMG9KFq7WNnPQWULWHJA&m=MmEVgetKXnVpxXXVP-kEXzOnCQ1gBX7g-maR6eHYff0&s=Gbxqx1CP4e7Lqj-6B9tR80IDdRHUQAdm3SWak3V1WOQ&e=" class="yiv5171754761">http://mainichi.jp/articles/20161024/k00/00m/040/104000c</a><br class="yiv5171754761"><br class="yiv5171754761"><div class="yiv5171754761">
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