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<p class="ydp53880ed2MsoNormal">Dear KineJapaners,</p>
<p class="ydp53880ed2MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none">I’m writing to ask whether anyone has done work on Tokugawa Musei, or
knows where his archives are.</p>
<p class="ydp53880ed2MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none">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.</p>
<p class="ydp53880ed2MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none">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.</p>
<p class="ydp53880ed2MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none">María José has kindly looked at his published reminiscences but they have
not revealed anything relevant.</p>
<p class="ydp53880ed2MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none">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.<span> </span>He has no mention in the ten volumes of <i>Britain
and Japan – Biographical Portraits</i>.</p>
<p class="ydp53880ed2MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none">Roger</p>
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