[KineJapan] Inabata letters

[Mathieu Capel]

Dear all,

The point is that Inabata's french is far from perfect (pretty good indeed,
but not perfect)...
"Renvians" is quite a good idea, dear Beat, I could second that, as,
according to some dictionaries, "renvier"was still used by that time. And
you're right : in that case, we'd have to assume an inaccurate spelling of
"renviants"...
I might have another version to suggest anyway : what about "les réunions",
i.e. "meetings", with the same kind of "orthographic tolerance" you were
advocating before (but it looks more like "reunians"...).
Plus, I would like to suggest something for page 8, where we can find three
more *** : instead of "envelop", I read "cassette", i.e. a  small casket
with some piece of art in it.
Open debate, anyway.
Best,

Mathieu Capel


Le mer. 30 janv. 2019 à 10:29, Beat Frey <beatfrey at gmx.ch> a écrit :

> It could be read as 'les renvians'. The verbe renvier means to gamble, so
> with a little orthographic tolerance (always tricky to do that in french)
> you may interpret it as 'gambling' or 'the ones who gamble'. Would be good
> to have the opinion of a native french speaker.
>
> Beat
> beatfrey at gmx.ch
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> Le 30.01.19, 06:10 Roger Macy <macyroger at yahoo.co.uk> a écrit:
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>> Thanks Aaron and Jeremy.
>> Is it 'au interdisait les américains' ?
>> It's not perfect, but he also misses the accent earlier on this word.
>> Roger
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>> On Wednesday, 30 January 2019, 00:03:01 GMT, Jeremy Harley <
>> jeremyharley at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> So cool! Thank you so much, Aaron.
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>> For those who read French but not Japanese, here's the direct link to the
>> PDF:
>> https://www.inabata.co.jp/themes/inabata/ik/assets/pdf/inabata_lumiere.pdf
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>> Can anyone make out the ******* word on the first page?
>> Suivant la loi japonaise, on interdisait les *******, les instruments de
>> musique, enfin tout ce qui concerne les distractions.
>> (日本の法律に従って、＊＊ ＊ や楽器の演奏、要するに娯楽に関わるすべての事柄が禁じられました。)
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>> Jeremy Harley
>> Mabashi Wonderland Movie Festival
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>> On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 2:17 AM Gerow Aaron <aaron.gerow at yale.edu> wrote:
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>> The Kyoto Shinbun has reported that a graduate student at Kyoto
>> University, Hase Ken'ichiro, has discovered notes for four letters that
>> Inabata Katsutaro, known in Japanese film history as the man who imported
>> the Lumiere Cinematograph to Japan, sent to the Lumiere Brothers. The notes
>> are likely transcripts of letters in French Inabata sent from March to
>> October of 1897, and describe the importation of the apparatus. What is
>> wonderful is that Inabata Co. (which still exists), has put the letters on
>> their home page, complete with a Japanese translation by Hori Junji.
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>> https://www.inabata.co.jp/ik/digital/
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