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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Dear Roger,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>When you say the Royal Archives are you speaking about the British Royal Family’s archives at Windsor Castle?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>From what I know then the film materials, especially nitrate based elements as I assume these to be, are on deposit with the BFI National Archive. If you need contact details then feel free to ask.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Adrian Wood<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> KineJapan <b>On Behalf Of </b>Roger Macy via KineJapan<br><b>Sent:</b> 08 September 2021 20:14<br><b>To:</b> KineJapan discussion forum <kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu><br><b>Cc:</b> Roger Macy <macyroger@yahoo.co.uk><br><b>Subject:</b> [KineJapan] Tokugawa Musei<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=ydp53880ed2msonormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>Dear KineJapaners,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=ydp53880ed2msonormal style='margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>I’m writing to ask whether anyone has done work on Tokugawa Musei, or knows where his archives are.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=ydp53880ed2msonormal style='margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>I am interested in what he did in his trips to the UK, and, in particular, in 1937. I see from a newspaper cutting that he was on the ship with Prince and Princess Chichibu, bound for the coronation of King George VI, traveling via Canada and New York.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=ydp53880ed2msonormal style='margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>My quest, still, is to try and nail down any history of the <i>Kaguya</i> print in the UK. I have a provenance without a surviving print – the one sent to the Japan Society in Nov>Dec ’36 and kept in London, but lost films are not, alas, news – and the second one sent in early ’37, which is the one that survives (from the Imperial censorship stamp). My best guess, still, is that it was on that ship.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=ydp53880ed2msonormal style='margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>María José has kindly looked at his published reminiscences but they have not revealed anything relevant.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=ydp53880ed2msonormal style='margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>I’ve already tried all the Royal Archives and the Imperial Household Agency. Even if I can’t connect the print to Tokugawa, I’d still like to know something of what he did in the UK. He has no mention in the ten volumes of <i>Britain and Japan – Biographical Portraits</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=ydp53880ed2msonormal style='margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>Roger<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>