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<![endif]--><p class="ydpb894aa3aMsoNormal"><span>Thank you Adrian, Jasper and Aaron for your
interest.</span></p>
<div class="ydpb894aa3aMsoNormal"><span><span><span>Adrian,</span></span> I've been in
contact with the Royal Archives and the Royal Collections Trust in </span><span>Windsor</span><span>, the archives at </span><span>Buckingham</span><span> </span><span>Palace</span><span> and the Queen's private office, as well as
the Imperial Household Agency. From the lower depths of </span><span>London</span><span>, where I come from, we would say I've had
more royal brush-offs than you've had hot dinners ;>)</span></div>
<div class="ydpb894aa3aMsoNormal"><span><br></span></div><div class="ydpb894aa3aMsoNormal" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span>In truth, Rachel Peat of the Royal Collections made useful suggestions and they have all
responded. The BFI is a hopeless black hole. They've been sitting on the print
for 70 years but have no knowledge how they got it and no interest in it. I was
told six years ago that it was not on the list of Palace acquisitions. I
even asked for the list, a couple of months ago to check, but, as usual, have
had no response.</span></div>
<p class="ydpb894aa3aMsoNormal"><span>But I don't think
it got to the Palace. The plans of Prince and Princess Chichibu were
curtailed by their illnesses and, one can hazard, other developments in 1937.
The Princess wrote a memoir, which even name-drops a birth-family connection to
the Princess Elizabeth, but which doesn't mention a princess Kaguya.</span></p>
<div class="ydpb894aa3aMsoNormal" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span>Nevertheless, a second, 1937
print did get to </span><span>London</span><span>. There had to be some ambition. It's tantalizing. What were
their plans as they set sail ? I'd like to hear from </span><span>Japan</span><span>'s No. 1 film explainer, who was there on
hand.</span></div><div class="ydpb894aa3aMsoNormal"><span><br></span></div><div class="ydpb894aa3aMsoNormal" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span>So, thank you, Aaron and Jasper, I'll take up your suggestions.</span></div><div class="ydpb894aa3aMsoNormal" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span>Roger<br></span></div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div>
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On Wednesday, 8 September 2021, 13:13:38 BST, Adrian- Restoration Asia <adrian@restorationasia.org> wrote:
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<div><div id="ydpe1186939yiv5014500372"><div><div class="ydpe1186939yiv5014500372WordSection1"><p class="ydpe1186939yiv5014500372MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dear Roger,</span></p><p class="ydpe1186939yiv5014500372MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><p class="ydpe1186939yiv5014500372MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">When you say the Royal Archives are you speaking about the British Royal Family’s archives at Windsor Castle?</span></p><p class="ydpe1186939yiv5014500372MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><p class="ydpe1186939yiv5014500372MsoNormal"><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.</span></p><p class="ydpe1186939yiv5014500372MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><p class="ydpe1186939yiv5014500372MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Best regards,</span></p><p class="ydpe1186939yiv5014500372MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><p class="ydpe1186939yiv5014500372MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Adrian Wood</span></p><p class="ydpe1186939yiv5014500372MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><div class="ydpe1186939yiv5014500372yqt6524189857" id="ydpe1186939yiv5014500372yqt53470"><div><div style="border-color: rgb(225, 225, 225) currentcolor currentcolor; border-style: solid none none; border-width: 1pt medium medium; padding: 3pt 0cm 0cm;"><p class="ydpe1186939yiv5014500372MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> KineJapan <b>On Behalf Of </b>Roger Macy via KineJapan<br clear="none"><b>Sent:</b> 08 September 2021 20:14<br clear="none"><b>To:</b> KineJapan discussion forum <kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu><br clear="none"><b>Cc:</b> Roger Macy <macyroger@yahoo.co.uk><br clear="none"><b>Subject:</b> [KineJapan] Tokugawa Musei</p></div></div><p class="ydpe1186939yiv5014500372MsoNormal"> </p><div><div><div><p class="ydpe1186939yiv5014500372ydp53880ed2msonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">Dear KineJapaners,</span></p><p class="ydpe1186939yiv5014500372ydp53880ed2msonormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">I’m writing to ask whether anyone has done work on Tokugawa Musei, or knows where his archives are.</span></p><p class="ydpe1186939yiv5014500372ydp53880ed2msonormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: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.</span></p><p class="ydpe1186939yiv5014500372ydp53880ed2msonormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: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.</span></p><p class="ydpe1186939yiv5014500372ydp53880ed2msonormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">María José has kindly looked at his published reminiscences but they have not revealed anything relevant.</span></p><p class="ydpe1186939yiv5014500372ydp53880ed2msonormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: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>.</span></p><p class="ydpe1186939yiv5014500372ydp53880ed2msonormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">Roger</span></p></div><div><p class="ydpe1186939yiv5014500372MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;"> </span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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