Tsutomu or Takeshi (E+J)

[drainer at mpinet.net]

 I asked a friend and he said 孟 (つとむ) is the correct reading. Don't know
his souce, but I've never seen that kanji used as Takeshi. And given the
other replies... maybe it's right?

-d

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Schermann Susanne" <susanneschermann at yahoo.co.jp>
To: <KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 11:36 AM
Subject: Re: Tsutomu or Takeshi (E+J)


> 映像メディア作家人名事典（日外アソシエーツ、1991）(Eizo
> Media Sakka Jinmei Jiten, Nichigai Associates) which I
> consider a very reliable source, gives Tsutomu.
>
> Susanne Schermann
>
>
> --- Aaron Gerow <gerowaaron at sbcglobal.net> からのメッセ
> ージ：
> > Just a simple question: Which is the correct reading
> > for the name of
> > the screenwriter for many of Oshima's and Shinoda's
> > films, Tamura
> > Tsutomu or Tamura Takeshi (in Japanese 田村孟)?
> >
> > The Japanese Diet Library gives Tsutomu, the KineJun
> > database Takeshi.
> > The Japan Writers Guild gives Tsutomu, but many
> > English texts give
> > Takeshi. The IMDb has both readings existing as if
> > they are different
> > people.
> >
> > I would tend to side with Tsutomu since the Diet
> > Library is the
> > principal authority on name readings and since
> > Tamura was a prominent
> > member of the Writers Guild. But I was wondering if
> > anyone out there
> > has confronted this problem before and can tell us
> > the Answer.
> >
> > Aaron Gerow
> > Film Studies and East Asian Languages and
> > Literatures
> > Yale University
> >
>