From jmthfrsa at gmail.com Thu Sep 2 12:43:45 2021 From: jmthfrsa at gmail.com (jacline MORICEAU) Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2021 18:43:45 +0200 Subject: [KineJapan] =?utf-8?q?Films_of_the_Great_Kant=C5=8D_Erathquake_a?= =?utf-8?q?vailable_on_line?= In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Thank you very much Matteo, what a difference between knowing and seing Regards Jacline Le mer. 1 sept. 2021 ? 01:48, Asian Docs via KineJapan < kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> a ?crit : > Dear all, > > Apologies in advance if this has already been shared, > > The National Film Archive of Japan has created a website where it's > possible to watch some films (visual documents) shot in the aftermath of > the Great Kant? Earthquake of 1923: > > https://kantodaishinsai.filmarchives.jp/places/1.html > > regards > > matteo boscarol > > > _______________________________________________ > KineJapan mailing list > KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From macyroger at yahoo.co.uk Sun Sep 5 05:59:34 2021 From: macyroger at yahoo.co.uk (Roger Macy) Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2021 09:59:34 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [KineJapan] Iwanami doc. on Yoyogi stadium construction References: <1733108074.3874385.1630835974911.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1733108074.3874385.1630835974911@mail.yahoo.com> Trying to relieve eye-strain by getting awayfrom my small screen, I took an afternoon off at Japan House in Kensington, London.? They havean exhibition on the Tokyo 1964 designs. I found myself watching a 26 minuteIwanami doc. on an even smaller screen, of the design and construction of theYoyogi National Gymnasium.? Made for thecontractors, Shimizu, it paid no attention whatever to the pool oranything else at ground level, focussing on the roof, and the forces it had towithstand, both as a completed structure, and during construction. It had english-only titling ?ConstructionRecord of National Stadium - Olympic Swimming Pool in Tokyo?, and english-only-commentary from the time ofissue. I think I?ve seen a film treating theconstruction of the Florence dome in a comparable way but nothing as good asthis has come my way on a modern construction. I suspect it?s not the kind ofsubject to attract to film writers. I could have used it profitably in teachinghigh school students mechanics, although the english translation measured forcein ?tons? rather than newtons. There were no staff credits on this print butan exhibition label card told me theoriginal title was ??????????????????, which, googling with ????, I could track down here http://kirokueizo.jp/db/search/eigadata/view/85974. The staff names are completely unknown to me.The director (if I have the readings right), SAKINO Shir?, I can only find in afew TV production credits. The principal photographer, UEMURA Ry?ichi has someother credits with more radical titles, but not so for the scriptwriter,HORIKOSHI Kei (Hajime?). I wonder whether she/he was an engineering instructor. Roger -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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My quest, still, is to try and nail down any history of the Kaguyaprint in the UK.I have a provenance without a surviving print ? the one sent to the JapanSociety in Nov>Dec ?36 and kept in London, but lost films are not, alas, news ? and the secondone sent in early ?37, which is the one that survives (from the Imperialcensorship stamp). My best guess, still, is that it was on that ship. Mar?a Jos? has kindly looked at his published reminiscences but they havenot revealed anything relevant. I?ve already tried all the Royal Archives and the Imperial HouseholdAgency. Even if I can?t connect the print to Tokugawa, I?d still like to knowsomething of what he did in the UK.? He has no mention in the ten volumes of Britainand Japan ? Biographical Portraits. Roger -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jasper_sharp at hotmail.com Wed Sep 8 07:33:27 2021 From: jasper_sharp at hotmail.com (Jasper Sharp) Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2021 11:33:27 +0000 Subject: [KineJapan] Tokugawa Musei In-Reply-To: <949745012.5660871.1631099648294@mail.yahoo.com> References: <949745012.5660871.1631099648294.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <949745012.5660871.1631099648294@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: My only thought is to contact Matsuda Productions, who I'm sure have some materials on Tokugawa Musei. https://www.matsudafilm.com/matsuda/b_pages/be.html MATSUDA FILM PRODUCTIONS: SERVICES Established in 1952 by Matsuda Shunsui with the purpose of excavating and restoring the then lost from sight Japanese film genre. The company has a collection of over 1000 films (approximately 6000 reels) from which it holds screenings. www.matsudafilm.com The Creeping Garden - A Real-Life Science-Fiction Story about Slime Moulds and the People Who Work With them, directed by Tim Grabham and Jasper Sharp. Available now on Dual-Format Blu-ray/DVD from Arrow Films. The book, The Creeping Garden: Irrational Encounters with Plasmodial Slime Moulds is out now from Alchimia Publishing. "A surprising investigation of perception, thought and life itself", Nicolas Rapold, The New York Times. "An out-of-left-field nerdy delight", John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter. "Strange, eccentric, diverting", Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian. ________________________________ From: KineJapan on behalf of Roger Macy via KineJapan Sent: 08 September 2021 11:14 To: KineJapan discussion forum Cc: Roger Macy Subject: [KineJapan] Tokugawa Musei Dear KineJapaners, I?m writing to ask whether anyone has done work on Tokugawa Musei, or knows where his archives are. 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. My quest, still, is to try and nail down any history of the Kaguya 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. Mar?a Jos? has kindly looked at his published reminiscences but they have not revealed anything relevant. 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 Britain and Japan ? Biographical Portraits. Roger -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From adrian at restorationasia.org Wed Sep 8 08:13:35 2021 From: adrian at restorationasia.org (Adrian- Restoration Asia) Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2021 21:13:35 +0900 Subject: [KineJapan] Tokugawa Musei In-Reply-To: <949745012.5660871.1631099648294@mail.yahoo.com> References: <949745012.5660871.1631099648294.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <949745012.5660871.1631099648294@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <06a701d7a4aa$f3853d30$da8fb790$@restorationasia.org> Dear Roger, When you say the Royal Archives are you speaking about the British Royal Family?s archives at Windsor Castle? >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. Best regards, Adrian Wood From: KineJapan On Behalf Of Roger Macy via KineJapan Sent: 08 September 2021 20:14 To: KineJapan discussion forum Cc: Roger Macy Subject: [KineJapan] Tokugawa Musei Dear KineJapaners, I?m writing to ask whether anyone has done work on Tokugawa Musei, or knows where his archives are. 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. My quest, still, is to try and nail down any history of the Kaguya 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. Mar?a Jos? has kindly looked at his published reminiscences but they have not revealed anything relevant. 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 Britain and Japan ? Biographical Portraits. Roger -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jjesty at protonmail.com Wed Sep 8 14:43:31 2021 From: jjesty at protonmail.com (jjesty) Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2021 18:43:31 +0000 Subject: [KineJapan] Job opening: University of Washington, Assistant Professor in Korean Literature, Cultural Studies, or Film and Media Studies Message-ID: Hello everyone, I'd like to share the good news that the University of Washington (Seattle) is opening a search for an Assistant Professor in Korean Literature, Cultural Studies, or Film and Media Studies. I realize that Korea is not Japan, but if you have colleagues or students who may be interested please forward. Thanks! All best wishes, Justin Jesty washington.academia.edu/JustinJesty Assistant Professor in Korean Literature, Cultural Studies, or Film and Media Studies University of Washington, Seattle https://asian.washington.edu/news/2021/09/07/asian-ll-seeks-assistant-professor-korean-literature-cultural-studies-or-film-and The Department of Asian Languages and Literature, University of Washington, Seattle, invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor with a teaching and research emphasis in Korean literature, cultural studies, or film and media studies, beginning Autumn 2022. The successful candidate is expected to develop a record of high-quality publications, to provide high quality teaching and mentoring at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, and to join the department in building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive community. The University of Washington has a long history of Korean studies and an excellent library collection for Korea-related fields. The successful applicant will join a vibrant campus community of students and scholars of Korean studies and will build connections across campus. The applicant will contribute to the future development of the Korean program within the department, and work collaboratively with relevant groups in the department, university, and community. This is a tenure-track, full-time appointment (9-month service period), with a 5-course teaching load. University of Washington faculty engage in teaching, research, and service. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From aaron.gerow at yale.edu Wed Sep 8 15:56:30 2021 From: aaron.gerow at yale.edu (Aaron Gerow) Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2021 15:56:30 -0400 Subject: [KineJapan] Tokugawa Musei In-Reply-To: <949745012.5660871.1631099648294@mail.yahoo.com> References: <949745012.5660871.1631099648294.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <949745012.5660871.1631099648294@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Both Kyoko Omori and Jeffrey Dym have done studies of Musei, but mainly in his activities as a benshi. Dym: "Tokugawa Musei: A Portrait Sketch of One of Japan's Greatest Narrative Artists." In Praise of Film Studies: Essays in Honor of Makino Mamoru. Omori: https://www.routledgehandbooks.com/doi/10.4324/9781315534374-12 So you could inquire with them about any archives they have used. Aaron Gerow Professor Film and Media Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures Chair, East Asian Languages and Literatures Yale University 143 Elm Street, Room 210 PO Box 208324 New Haven, CT 06520-8324 USA Phone: 1-203-432-7082 Fax: 1-203-432-6729 e-mail: aaron.gerow at yale.edu site: www.aarongerow.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From macyroger at yahoo.co.uk Wed Sep 8 17:15:53 2021 From: macyroger at yahoo.co.uk (Roger Macy) Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2021 21:15:53 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [KineJapan] Tokugawa Musei In-Reply-To: <06a701d7a4aa$f3853d30$da8fb790$@restorationasia.org> References: <949745012.5660871.1631099648294.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <949745012.5660871.1631099648294@mail.yahoo.com> <06a701d7a4aa$f3853d30$da8fb790$@restorationasia.org> Message-ID: <143248728.4776411.1631135753646@mail.yahoo.com> Thank you Adrian, Jasper and Aaron for yourinterest. Adrian,?I've been incontact with the Royal Archives and the Royal Collections Trust in Windsor, the archives at Buckingham Palace and the Queen's private office, as well asthe Imperial Household Agency. From the lower depths of London, where I come from, we would say I've hadmore royal brush-offs than you've had hot dinners ;>) In truth, Rachel Peat of the Royal Collections made useful suggestions and they have allresponded. The BFI is a hopeless black hole. They've been sitting on the printfor 70 years but have no knowledge how they got it and no interest in it. I wastold six years ago that it was not on the list of Palace acquisitions.? Ieven asked for the list, a couple of months ago to check, but, as usual, havehad no response. But I don't thinkit got to the Palace.? The plans of Prince and Princess Chichibu werecurtailed by their illnesses and, one can hazard, other developments in 1937.The Princess wrote a memoir, which even name-drops a birth-family connection tothe Princess Elizabeth, but which doesn't mention a princess Kaguya. Nevertheless, a second, 1937print did get to London.? There had to be some ambition. It's tantalizing.? What weretheir plans as they set sail ? I'd like to hear from Japan's No. 1 film explainer, who was there onhand. So, thank you, Aaron and Jasper, I'll take up your suggestions.Roger On Wednesday, 8 September 2021, 13:13:38 BST, Adrian- Restoration Asia wrote: Dear Roger, ? When you say the Royal Archives are you speaking about the British Royal Family?s archives at Windsor Castle? ? >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. ? Best regards, ? Adrian Wood ? From: KineJapan On Behalf Of Roger Macy via KineJapan Sent: 08 September 2021 20:14 To: KineJapan discussion forum Cc: Roger Macy Subject: [KineJapan] Tokugawa Musei ? Dear KineJapaners, I?m writing to ask whether anyone has done work on Tokugawa Musei, or knows where his archives are. 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. My quest, still, is to try and nail down any history of the Kaguya 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. Mar?a Jos? has kindly looked at his published reminiscences but they have not revealed anything relevant. 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 Britain and Japan ? Biographical Portraits. Roger ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nornes at umich.edu Wed Sep 8 22:16:05 2021 From: nornes at umich.edu (Markus Nornes) Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2021 22:16:05 -0400 Subject: [KineJapan] Nuclear Nation III Message-ID: Funahashi Atsushi has made a third film on Futaba. An English version of the NHK doc is showing on NHK World on 9/11-12. I'm assuming this is close to the original broadcast, which had to toe certain aesthetic lines. It was still good and definitely important. He plans to re-edit this once again in his own shape as an independently distributed documentary. Markus ===================================== I am pleased to tell you the WORLD PREMIERE broadcast of another NUCLEAR NATION sequel. "Far from Futaba: 10 Years of Nuclear Exile? Saturday, September 11 9:10/ 15:10/ 21:10 (JST) Sunday, September 12 3:10 Will broadcast on NHK World: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/ This is a story about 10-year exile that Futaba townspeople had to endure. Upon the NUCLEAR NATION 1 & 2, we added newly shot footages (in the second half of this doc.) Please read below for more details; https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/special/episode/202109110910/?fbclid=IwAR2xjTKGR6fYSNyXufDlI9xVbKxYVeetpqBGxK1pkvK8OibdU_GSO1Lqe5M --- *Markus Nornes* *Professor of Asian Cinema* *Interim Chair, Dept. of Asian Languages and Culture* Department of Film, Television and Media, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, Penny Stamps School of Art & Design *Homepage: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~nornes/ * *Department of Film, Television and Media* *6348 North Quad* *105 S. State Street**Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hauiri at web.de Wed Sep 8 22:23:45 2021 From: hauiri at web.de (Iris Haukamp) Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2021 11:23:45 +0900 Subject: [KineJapan] KineJapan Digest, Vol 40, Issue 4 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Good morning, Roger, this is an intriguing topic. Incidentally, I'm currently reading Shirai Shigeru's memoirs (Kamera to jinsei), and there are some pages on the Ashikaga trip and film. He mentions disembarking with Tokugawa Musei in Singapore and Arden in order to 'film beautiful girls dancing', and he also writes about his other tasks on the trip, such as buying filmstock and specific camera equipment abroad. Yet, he never mentions Kaguya hime or 'a film' they were supposed to take to the UK at all. It is curious, indeed. All the best for now, Iris On Thu, 9 Sept 2021 at 06:22, wrote: > Send KineJapan mailing list submissions to > kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > kinejapan-request at mailman.yale.edu > > You can reach the person managing the list at > kinejapan-owner at mailman.yale.edu > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of KineJapan digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Tokugawa Musei (Aaron Gerow) > 2. Re: Tokugawa Musei (Roger Macy) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2021 15:56:30 -0400 > From: Aaron Gerow > To: Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum > Subject: Re: [KineJapan] Tokugawa Musei > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Both Kyoko Omori and Jeffrey Dym have done studies of Musei, but mainly in > his activities as a benshi. > > Dym: "Tokugawa Musei: A Portrait Sketch of One of Japan's Greatest > Narrative Artists." In Praise of Film Studies: Essays in Honor of Makino > Mamoru. > > Omori: https://www.routledgehandbooks.com/doi/10.4324/9781315534374-12 < > https://www.routledgehandbooks.com/doi/10.4324/9781315534374-12> > > So you could inquire with them about any archives they have used. > > > Aaron Gerow > Professor > Film and Media Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures > Chair, East Asian Languages and Literatures > Yale University > 143 Elm Street, Room 210 > PO Box 208324 > New Haven, CT 06520-8324 > USA > Phone: 1-203-432-7082 > Fax: 1-203-432-6729 > e-mail: aaron.gerow at yale.edu > site: www.aarongerow.com > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://mailman.yale.edu/pipermail/kinejapan/attachments/20210908/a3d017fe/attachment-0001.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2021 21:15:53 +0000 (UTC) > From: Roger Macy > To: 'Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum' > Subject: Re: [KineJapan] Tokugawa Musei > Message-ID: <143248728.4776411.1631135753646 at mail.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > > Thank you Adrian, Jasper and Aaron for yourinterest. > Adrian,?I've been incontact with the Royal Archives and the Royal > Collections Trust in Windsor, the archives at Buckingham Palace and the > Queen's private office, as well asthe Imperial Household Agency. From the > lower depths of London, where I come from, we would say I've hadmore royal > brush-offs than you've had hot dinners ;>) > In truth, Rachel Peat of the Royal Collections made useful suggestions and > they have allresponded. The BFI is a hopeless black hole. They've been > sitting on the printfor 70 years but have no knowledge how they got it and > no interest in it. I wastold six years ago that it was not on the list of > Palace acquisitions.? Ieven asked for the list, a couple of months ago to > check, but, as usual, havehad no response. > But I don't thinkit got to the Palace.? The plans of Prince and Princess > Chichibu werecurtailed by their illnesses and, one can hazard, other > developments in 1937.The Princess wrote a memoir, which even name-drops a > birth-family connection tothe Princess Elizabeth, but which doesn't mention > a princess Kaguya. > Nevertheless, a second, 1937print did get to London.? There had to be some > ambition. It's tantalizing.? What weretheir plans as they set sail ? I'd > like to hear from Japan's No. 1 film explainer, who was there onhand. > So, thank you, Aaron and Jasper, I'll take up your suggestions.Roger > > > > On Wednesday, 8 September 2021, 13:13:38 BST, Adrian- Restoration Asia > wrote: > > > Dear Roger, > > ? > > When you say the Royal Archives are you speaking about the British Royal > Family?s archives at Windsor Castle? > > ? > > >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. > > ? > > Best regards, > > ? > > Adrian Wood > > ? > > From: KineJapan On Behalf Of Roger Macy via KineJapan > Sent: 08 September 2021 20:14 > To: KineJapan discussion forum > Cc: Roger Macy > Subject: [KineJapan] Tokugawa Musei > > ? > > Dear KineJapaners, > > I?m writing to ask whether anyone has done work on Tokugawa Musei, or > knows where his archives are. > > 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. > > My quest, still, is to try and nail down any history of the Kaguya 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. > > Mar?a Jos? has kindly looked at his published reminiscences but they have > not revealed anything relevant. > > 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 Britain and Japan ? Biographical Portraits. > > Roger > > ? > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://mailman.yale.edu/pipermail/kinejapan/attachments/20210908/265e9702/attachment.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > KineJapan mailing list > KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan > > > ------------------------------ > > End of KineJapan Digest, Vol 40, Issue 4 > **************************************** > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From macyroger at yahoo.co.uk Fri Sep 10 12:01:41 2021 From: macyroger at yahoo.co.uk (Roger Macy) Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2021 16:01:41 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [KineJapan] KineJapan Digest, Vol 40, Issue 4 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1641667808.7089327.1631289701293@mail.yahoo.com> Thank you, Iris. It gives me a wider perspective. When I first read this earlier in the week, it didn?t seem to make sense:I knew the cruiser Ashigara had sailed, with the Chichibus? passenger liner,for Vancouver, so Singaporedidn?t fit in. At that time, I?d only stumbled on the embarkation report in theNichibei Shinbun. That was in a growing collection of expatriate newspapers,freely searchable at the Hoji Shinbun Digital Collection. I don?t think we?vementioned it before here https://hojishinbun.hoover.org/?a=p&p=home&e=01-03-1935-31-12-1939--en-10--1--img-%e5%be%b3%e5%b7%9d%e5%a4%a2%e5%a3%b0--------. Since I could only find the Tokugawa report in the english-language pagesof that newspaper, I went to the library today to search Asahi Shinbun throughKikuzo. There were several more reports in there, which fitted it together. So,after dropping the royal party in Vancouver,the Ashigara headed them off at the pass, as it were, going through the Panama canal, picked up the artists after the coronation and returned viathe Mediterranean and?... Singapore. In the first, embarkation report of March ?37 I can see the names ofTokugawa, your Shirai Shigeru as PCL photographer, and also the western-stylepainter Nakamura Ken?ichi. ?The ?export?edited version of Kaguya didn?t really ?belong? to PCL, or its predecessor JOby 1937 but to the ?International Cinema Association of Japan?, as they creditthemselves on the surviving print; and would be more likely to be shipped onthe Chichibus? passenger liner, than the cruiser, already with the extra burdenof a film crew. They seem to be tasked with the production of the hour-long ?????? / ???????present day characters). JMDb has it at 76 minutes http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1937/bm003840.htm?. So I get what you mean by ?the film?But not by ?Arden?. No one seems to have seen the film of the voyagesince. Have you tracked it down Iris? I can?t see it in the NFAJ catalogue butI recall Johan Nordstr?m telling me that all the PCL films survive. It won?thave anything on Kaguya-hime, but in the blurb of the 2001 Yamagata catalogue, although they didn?t show it, it?s givenas a Kamei Fumio direction. I can?t see his name in these news reports,attached*, but ?I?d definitely pay moneyto see what Kamei made of the coronation of the Emperor of India. DeepLtranslates the title as ?Kicking up a storm?. Roger * I couldn?t get Kikuzo at the BL to deliver adigital file. I had to make paper copies and then photograph them. On Thursday, 9 September 2021, 03:24:05 BST, Iris Haukamp via KineJapan wrote: Good morning, Roger, this is an intriguing topic. Incidentally, I'm currently reading Shirai Shigeru's memoirs (Kamera to jinsei), and there are some pages on the Ashikaga?trip and film. He mentions disembarking with Tokugawa Musei in Singapore and Arden in order to 'film beautiful girls dancing', and he also writes about his other tasks on the trip, such as buying?filmstock and specific camera equipment abroad. Yet, he never mentions Kaguya hime or 'a film' they were supposed to take to the UK at all. It is curious, indeed. All the best for now,Iris On Thu, 9 Sept 2021 at 06:22, wrote: Send KineJapan mailing list submissions to ? ? ? ? kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit ? ? ? ? https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to ? ? ? ? kinejapan-request at mailman.yale.edu You can reach the person managing the list at ? ? ? ? kinejapan-owner at mailman.yale.edu When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of KineJapan digest..." Today's Topics: ? ?1. Re: Tokugawa Musei (Aaron Gerow) ? ?2. Re: Tokugawa Musei (Roger Macy) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2021 15:56:30 -0400 From: Aaron Gerow To: Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum Subject: Re: [KineJapan] Tokugawa Musei Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Both Kyoko Omori and Jeffrey Dym have done studies of Musei, but mainly in his activities as a benshi. Dym: "Tokugawa Musei: A Portrait Sketch of One of Japan's Greatest Narrative Artists." In Praise of Film Studies: Essays in Honor of Makino Mamoru. Omori: https://www.routledgehandbooks.com/doi/10.4324/9781315534374-12 So you could inquire with them about any archives they have used. Aaron Gerow Professor Film and Media Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures Chair, East Asian Languages and Literatures Yale University 143 Elm Street, Room 210 PO Box 208324 New Haven, CT 06520-8324 USA Phone: 1-203-432-7082 Fax: 1-203-432-6729 e-mail: aaron.gerow at yale.edu site: www.aarongerow.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2021 21:15:53 +0000 (UTC) From: Roger Macy To: 'Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum' Subject: Re: [KineJapan] Tokugawa Musei Message-ID: <143248728.4776411.1631135753646 at mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Thank you Adrian, Jasper and Aaron for yourinterest. Adrian,?I've been incontact with the Royal Archives and the Royal Collections Trust in Windsor, the archives at Buckingham Palace and the Queen's private office, as well asthe Imperial Household Agency. From the lower depths of London, where I come from, we would say I've hadmore royal brush-offs than you've had hot dinners ;>) In truth, Rachel Peat of the Royal Collections made useful suggestions and they have allresponded. The BFI is a hopeless black hole. They've been sitting on the printfor 70 years but have no knowledge how they got it and no interest in it. I wastold six years ago that it was not on the list of Palace acquisitions.? Ieven asked for the list, a couple of months ago to check, but, as usual, havehad no response. But I don't thinkit got to the Palace.? The plans of Prince and Princess Chichibu werecurtailed by their illnesses and, one can hazard, other developments in 1937.The Princess wrote a memoir, which even name-drops a birth-family connection tothe Princess Elizabeth, but which doesn't mention a princess Kaguya. Nevertheless, a second, 1937print did get to London.? There had to be some ambition. It's tantalizing.? What weretheir plans as they set sail ? I'd like to hear from Japan's No. 1 film explainer, who was there onhand. So, thank you, Aaron and Jasper, I'll take up your suggestions.Roger ? ? On Wednesday, 8 September 2021, 13:13:38 BST, Adrian- Restoration Asia wrote:? Dear Roger, ?? When you say the Royal Archives are you speaking about the British Royal Family?s archives at Windsor Castle? ?? >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. ?? Best regards, ?? Adrian Wood ?? From: KineJapan On Behalf Of Roger Macy via KineJapan Sent: 08 September 2021 20:14 To: KineJapan discussion forum Cc: Roger Macy Subject: [KineJapan] Tokugawa Musei ?? Dear KineJapaners, I?m writing to ask whether anyone has done work on Tokugawa Musei, or knows where his archives are. 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. My quest, still, is to try and nail down any history of the Kaguya 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. Mar?a Jos? has kindly looked at his published reminiscences but they have not revealed anything relevant. 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 Britain and Japan ? Biographical Portraits. 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That was in a growing collection of expatriate newspapers,freely searchable at the Hoji Shinbun Digital Collection. I don?t think we?vementioned it before here https://hojishinbun.hoover.org/?a=p&p=home&e=01-03-1935-31-12-1939--en-10--1--img-%e5%be%b3%e5%b7%9d%e5%a4%a2%e5%a3%b0--------. Since I could only find the Tokugawa report in the english-language pagesof that newspaper, I went to the library today to search Asahi Shinbun throughKikuzo. There were several more reports in there, which fitted it together. So,after dropping the royal party in Vancouver,the Ashigara headed them off at the pass, as it were, going through the Panama canal, picked up the artists after the coronation and returned viathe Mediterranean and?... Singapore. In the first, embarkation report of March ?37 I can see the names ofTokugawa, your Shirai Shigeru as PCL photographer, and also the western-stylepainter Nakamura Ken?ichi.? The ?export?edited version of Kaguya didn?t really ?belong? to PCL, or its predecessor JOby 1937 but to the ?International Cinema Association of Japan?, as they creditthemselves on the surviving print; and would be more likely to be shipped onthe Chichibus? passenger liner, than the cruiser, already with the extra burdenof a film crew. They seem to be tasked with the production of the hour-long ?????? / ???????present day characters). JMDb has it at 76 minutes http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1937/bm003840.htm? . So I get what you mean by ?the film? Butnot by ?Arden?. No one seems to have seen the film of the voyagesince. Have you tracked it down Iris? I can?t see it in the NFAJ catalogue butI recall Johan Nordstr?m telling me that all the PCL films survive. It won?thave anything on Kaguya-hime, but in the blurb of the 2001 Yamagata catalogue, although they didn?t show it, it?s givenas a Kamei Fumio direction. I can?t see his name in these news reports,attached*, but ?I?d definitely pay moneyto see what Kamei made of the coronation of the Emperor of India. DeepLtranslates the title as ?Kicking up a storm?. Roger * I couldn?t get Kikuzo at the BL to deliver adigital file. I had to make paper copies and then photograph them. I compressedthe three images to 830K but they always seem to grow on transmission, over the1000 bytes limit, to ?1182686 bytes ?. So, I?ll try again, sending theMarch and the headlines of the Sep piece. Others available on application. On Thursday, 9 September 2021, 03:24:05 BST, Iris Haukamp via KineJapan wrote: Good morning, Roger, this is an intriguing topic. Incidentally, I'm currently reading Shirai Shigeru's memoirs (Kamera to jinsei), and there are some pages on the Ashikaga?trip and film. He mentions disembarking with Tokugawa Musei in Singapore and Arden in order to 'film beautiful girls dancing', and he also writes about his other tasks on the trip, such as buying?filmstock and specific camera equipment abroad. Yet, he never mentions Kaguya hime or 'a film' they were supposed to take to the UK at all. It is curious, indeed. All the best for now,Iris On Thu, 9 Sept 2021 at 06:22, wrote: Send KineJapan mailing list submissions to ? ? ? ? kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit ? ? ? ? https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to ? ? ? ? kinejapan-request at mailman.yale.edu You can reach the person managing the list at ? ? ? ? kinejapan-owner at mailman.yale.edu When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of KineJapan digest..." Today's Topics: ? ?1. Re: Tokugawa Musei (Aaron Gerow) ? ?2. Re: Tokugawa Musei (Roger Macy) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2021 15:56:30 -0400 From: Aaron Gerow To: Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum Subject: Re: [KineJapan] Tokugawa Musei Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Both Kyoko Omori and Jeffrey Dym have done studies of Musei, but mainly in his activities as a benshi. Dym: "Tokugawa Musei: A Portrait Sketch of One of Japan's Greatest Narrative Artists." In Praise of Film Studies: Essays in Honor of Makino Mamoru. Omori: https://www.routledgehandbooks.com/doi/10.4324/9781315534374-12 So you could inquire with them about any archives they have used. Aaron Gerow Professor Film and Media Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures Chair, East Asian Languages and Literatures Yale University 143 Elm Street, Room 210 PO Box 208324 New Haven, CT 06520-8324 USA Phone: 1-203-432-7082 Fax: 1-203-432-6729 e-mail: aaron.gerow at yale.edu site: www.aarongerow.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2021 21:15:53 +0000 (UTC) From: Roger Macy To: 'Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum' Subject: Re: [KineJapan] Tokugawa Musei Message-ID: <143248728.4776411.1631135753646 at mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Thank you Adrian, Jasper and Aaron for yourinterest. Adrian,?I've been incontact with the Royal Archives and the Royal Collections Trust in Windsor, the archives at Buckingham Palace and the Queen's private office, as well asthe Imperial Household Agency. From the lower depths of London, where I come from, we would say I've hadmore royal brush-offs than you've had hot dinners ;>) In truth, Rachel Peat of the Royal Collections made useful suggestions and they have allresponded. The BFI is a hopeless black hole. They've been sitting on the printfor 70 years but have no knowledge how they got it and no interest in it. I wastold six years ago that it was not on the list of Palace acquisitions.? Ieven asked for the list, a couple of months ago to check, but, as usual, havehad no response. But I don't thinkit got to the Palace.? The plans of Prince and Princess Chichibu werecurtailed by their illnesses and, one can hazard, other developments in 1937.The Princess wrote a memoir, which even name-drops a birth-family connection tothe Princess Elizabeth, but which doesn't mention a princess Kaguya. Nevertheless, a second, 1937print did get to London.? There had to be some ambition. It's tantalizing.? What weretheir plans as they set sail ? I'd like to hear from Japan's No. 1 film explainer, who was there onhand. So, thank you, Aaron and Jasper, I'll take up your suggestions.Roger ? ? On Wednesday, 8 September 2021, 13:13:38 BST, Adrian- Restoration Asia wrote:? Dear Roger, ?? When you say the Royal Archives are you speaking about the British Royal Family?s archives at Windsor Castle? ?? >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. ?? Best regards, ?? Adrian Wood ?? From: KineJapan On Behalf Of Roger Macy via KineJapan Sent: 08 September 2021 20:14 To: KineJapan discussion forum Cc: Roger Macy Subject: [KineJapan] Tokugawa Musei ?? Dear KineJapaners, I?m writing to ask whether anyone has done work on Tokugawa Musei, or knows where his archives are. 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. My quest, still, is to try and nail down any history of the Kaguya 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. Mar?a Jos? has kindly looked at his published reminiscences but they have not revealed anything relevant. 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 Britain and Japan ? Biographical Portraits. 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Michael Raine, Department of English and Writing Studies Western University, Canada co-editor, Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema co-editor, The Culture of the Sound Image in Prewar Japan (Amsterdam UP, 2020) co-editor, Developments in the Japanese Documentary Mode (MDPI, 2020) On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 12:12 PM Roger Macy via KineJapan < kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote: > Thank you, Iris. It gives me a wider perspective. > > When I first read this earlier in the week, it didn?t seem to make sense: > I knew the cruiser Ashigara had sailed, with the Chichibus? passenger > liner, for Vancouver, so Singapore didn?t fit in. At that time, I?d only > stumbled on the embarkation report in the Nichibei Shinbun. That was in a > growing collection of expatriate newspapers, freely searchable at the Hoji > Shinbun Digital Collection. I don?t think we?ve mentioned it before here > https://hojishinbun.hoover.org/?a=p&p=home&e=01-03-1935-31-12-1939--en-10--1--img-%e5%be%b3%e5%b7%9d%e5%a4%a2%e5%a3%b0-------- > . > > Since I could only find the Tokugawa report in the english-language pages > of that newspaper, I went to the library today to search Asahi Shinbun > through Kikuzo. There were several more reports in there, which fitted it > together. So, after dropping the royal party in Vancouver, the Ashigara > headed them off at the pass, as it were, going through the Panama canal, > picked up the artists after the coronation and returned via the > Mediterranean and ... Singapore. > > In the first, embarkation report of March ?37 I can see the names of > Tokugawa, your Shirai Shigeru as PCL photographer, and also the > western-style painter Nakamura Ken?ichi. The ?export? edited version of > Kaguya didn?t really ?belong? to PCL, or its predecessor JO by 1937 but to > the ?International Cinema Association of Japan?, as they credit themselves > on the surviving print; and would be more likely to be shipped on the > Chichibus? passenger liner, than the cruiser, already with the extra burden > of a film crew. They seem to be tasked with the production of the hour-long > ?????? / *???*????present day characters). JMDb has it at 76 minutes > http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1937/bm003840.htm . So I get what you mean by ?the > film? But not by ?Arden?. > > No one seems to have seen the film of the voyage since. Have you tracked > it down Iris? I can?t see it in the NFAJ catalogue but I recall Johan > Nordstr?m telling me that all the PCL films survive. It won?t have anything > on *Kaguya-hime*, but in the blurb of the 2001 Yamagata catalogue, > although they didn?t show it, it?s given as a Kamei Fumio direction. I > can?t see his name in these news reports, attached*, but I?d definitely > pay money to see what Kamei made of the coronation of the Emperor of India. > *DeepL* translates the title as ?Kicking up a storm?. > > Roger > > * I couldn?t get Kikuzo at the BL to deliver a digital file. I had to make > paper copies and then photograph them. > > > On Thursday, 9 September 2021, 03:24:05 BST, Iris Haukamp via KineJapan < > kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote: > > > Good morning, > > Roger, this is an intriguing topic. Incidentally, I'm currently reading > Shirai Shigeru's memoirs (Kamera to jinsei), and there are some pages on > the Ashikaga trip and film. He mentions disembarking with Tokugawa Musei in > Singapore and Arden in order to 'film beautiful girls dancing', and he also > writes about his other tasks on the trip, such as buying filmstock and > specific camera equipment abroad. Yet, he never mentions Kaguya hime or 'a > film' they were supposed to take to the UK at all. It is curious, indeed. > > All the best for now, > Iris > > On Thu, 9 Sept 2021 at 06:22, wrote: > > Send KineJapan mailing list submissions to > kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > kinejapan-request at mailman.yale.edu > > You can reach the person managing the list at > kinejapan-owner at mailman.yale.edu > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of KineJapan digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Tokugawa Musei (Aaron Gerow) > 2. Re: Tokugawa Musei (Roger Macy) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2021 15:56:30 -0400 > From: Aaron Gerow > To: Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum > Subject: Re: [KineJapan] Tokugawa Musei > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Both Kyoko Omori and Jeffrey Dym have done studies of Musei, but mainly in > his activities as a benshi. > > Dym: "Tokugawa Musei: A Portrait Sketch of One of Japan's Greatest > Narrative Artists." In Praise of Film Studies: Essays in Honor of Makino > Mamoru. > > Omori: https://www.routledgehandbooks.com/doi/10.4324/9781315534374-12 < > https://www.routledgehandbooks.com/doi/10.4324/9781315534374-12> > > So you could inquire with them about any archives they have used. > > > Aaron Gerow > Professor > Film and Media Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures > Chair, East Asian Languages and Literatures > Yale University > 143 Elm Street, Room 210 > PO Box 208324 > New Haven, CT 06520-8324 > USA > Phone: 1-203-432-7082 > Fax: 1-203-432-6729 > e-mail: aaron.gerow at yale.edu > site: www.aarongerow.com > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://mailman.yale.edu/pipermail/kinejapan/attachments/20210908/a3d017fe/attachment-0001.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2021 21:15:53 +0000 (UTC) > From: Roger Macy > To: 'Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum' > Subject: Re: [KineJapan] Tokugawa Musei > Message-ID: <143248728.4776411.1631135753646 at mail.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > > Thank you Adrian, Jasper and Aaron for yourinterest. > Adrian,?I've been incontact with the Royal Archives and the Royal > Collections Trust in Windsor, the archives at Buckingham Palace and the > Queen's private office, as well asthe Imperial Household Agency. From the > lower depths of London, where I come from, we would say I've hadmore royal > brush-offs than you've had hot dinners ;>) > In truth, Rachel Peat of the Royal Collections made useful suggestions and > they have allresponded. The BFI is a hopeless black hole. They've been > sitting on the printfor 70 years but have no knowledge how they got it and > no interest in it. I wastold six years ago that it was not on the list of > Palace acquisitions.? Ieven asked for the list, a couple of months ago to > check, but, as usual, havehad no response. > But I don't thinkit got to the Palace.? The plans of Prince and Princess > Chichibu werecurtailed by their illnesses and, one can hazard, other > developments in 1937.The Princess wrote a memoir, which even name-drops a > birth-family connection tothe Princess Elizabeth, but which doesn't mention > a princess Kaguya. > Nevertheless, a second, 1937print did get to London.? There had to be some > ambition. It's tantalizing.? What weretheir plans as they set sail ? I'd > like to hear from Japan's No. 1 film explainer, who was there onhand. > So, thank you, Aaron and Jasper, I'll take up your suggestions.Roger > > > > On Wednesday, 8 September 2021, 13:13:38 BST, Adrian- Restoration Asia > wrote: > > > Dear Roger, > > ? > > When you say the Royal Archives are you speaking about the British Royal > Family?s archives at Windsor Castle? > > ? > > >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. > > ? > > Best regards, > > ? > > Adrian Wood > > ? > > From: KineJapan On Behalf Of Roger Macy via KineJapan > Sent: 08 September 2021 20:14 > To: KineJapan discussion forum > Cc: Roger Macy > Subject: [KineJapan] Tokugawa Musei > > ? > > Dear KineJapaners, > > I?m writing to ask whether anyone has done work on Tokugawa Musei, or > knows where his archives are. > > 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. > > My quest, still, is to try and nail down any history of the Kaguya 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. > > Mar?a Jos? has kindly looked at his published reminiscences but they have > not revealed anything relevant. > > 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 Britain and Japan ? 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URL: From nornes at umich.edu Fri Sep 10 14:17:25 2021 From: nornes at umich.edu (Markus Nornes) Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2021 14:17:25 -0400 Subject: [KineJapan] KineJapan Digest, Vol 40, Issue 4 In-Reply-To: References: <1641667808.7089327.1631289701293@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: I saw this film thirty years ago ?which is about all I can tell you at this point. I suspect Planet has it. Markus On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 12:38 PM Michael Raine via KineJapan < kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote: > Off topic, but I guess "Arden" is the strategic port of "Aden". > > Years ago I read about Tsuburaya Eiji shooting Doto o kette -- I always > wondered if the procession of battleships at the end of Hawai-Marei > okikaisen came from that film. > > Michael Raine, Department of English and Writing Studies > Western University, Canada > co-editor, Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema > co-editor, The Culture of the Sound Image in Prewar Japan (Amsterdam UP, > 2020) > co-editor, Developments in the Japanese Documentary Mode (MDPI, 2020) > > > On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 12:12 PM Roger Macy via KineJapan < > kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote: > >> Thank you, Iris. It gives me a wider perspective. >> >> When I first read this earlier in the week, it didn?t seem to make sense: >> I knew the cruiser Ashigara had sailed, with the Chichibus? passenger >> liner, for Vancouver, so Singapore didn?t fit in. At that time, I?d only >> stumbled on the embarkation report in the Nichibei Shinbun. That was in a >> growing collection of expatriate newspapers, freely searchable at the Hoji >> Shinbun Digital Collection. I don?t think we?ve mentioned it before here >> https://hojishinbun.hoover.org/?a=p&p=home&e=01-03-1935-31-12-1939--en-10--1--img-%e5%be%b3%e5%b7%9d%e5%a4%a2%e5%a3%b0-------- >> . >> >> Since I could only find the Tokugawa report in the english-language pages >> of that newspaper, I went to the library today to search Asahi Shinbun >> through Kikuzo. There were several more reports in there, which fitted it >> together. So, after dropping the royal party in Vancouver, the Ashigara >> headed them off at the pass, as it were, going through the Panama canal, >> picked up the artists after the coronation and returned via the >> Mediterranean and ... Singapore. >> >> In the first, embarkation report of March ?37 I can see the names of >> Tokugawa, your Shirai Shigeru as PCL photographer, and also the >> western-style painter Nakamura Ken?ichi. The ?export? edited version of >> Kaguya didn?t really ?belong? to PCL, or its predecessor JO by 1937 but to >> the ?International Cinema Association of Japan?, as they credit themselves >> on the surviving print; and would be more likely to be shipped on the >> Chichibus? passenger liner, than the cruiser, already with the extra burden >> of a film crew. They seem to be tasked with the production of the hour-long >> ?????? / *???*????present day characters). JMDb has it at 76 minutes >> http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1937/bm003840.htm . So I get what you mean by >> ?the film? But not by ?Arden?. >> >> No one seems to have seen the film of the voyage since. Have you tracked >> it down Iris? I can?t see it in the NFAJ catalogue but I recall Johan >> Nordstr?m telling me that all the PCL films survive. It won?t have anything >> on *Kaguya-hime*, but in the blurb of the 2001 Yamagata catalogue, >> although they didn?t show it, it?s given as a Kamei Fumio direction. I >> can?t see his name in these news reports, attached*, but I?d definitely >> pay money to see what Kamei made of the coronation of the Emperor of India. >> *DeepL* translates the title as ?Kicking up a storm?. >> >> Roger >> >> * I couldn?t get Kikuzo at the BL to deliver a digital file. I had to >> make paper copies and then photograph them. >> >> >> On Thursday, 9 September 2021, 03:24:05 BST, Iris Haukamp via KineJapan < >> kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote: >> >> >> Good morning, >> >> Roger, this is an intriguing topic. Incidentally, I'm currently reading >> Shirai Shigeru's memoirs (Kamera to jinsei), and there are some pages on >> the Ashikaga trip and film. He mentions disembarking with Tokugawa Musei in >> Singapore and Arden in order to 'film beautiful girls dancing', and he also >> writes about his other tasks on the trip, such as buying filmstock and >> specific camera equipment abroad. Yet, he never mentions Kaguya hime or 'a >> film' they were supposed to take to the UK at all. It is curious, indeed. >> >> All the best for now, >> Iris >> >> On Thu, 9 Sept 2021 at 06:22, wrote: >> >> Send KineJapan mailing list submissions to >> kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu >> >> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit >> https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan >> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to >> kinejapan-request at mailman.yale.edu >> >> You can reach the person managing the list at >> kinejapan-owner at mailman.yale.edu >> >> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >> than "Re: Contents of KineJapan digest..." >> >> >> Today's Topics: >> >> 1. Re: Tokugawa Musei (Aaron Gerow) >> 2. Re: Tokugawa Musei (Roger Macy) >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Message: 1 >> Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2021 15:56:30 -0400 >> From: Aaron Gerow >> To: Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum >> Subject: Re: [KineJapan] Tokugawa Musei >> Message-ID: >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >> >> Both Kyoko Omori and Jeffrey Dym have done studies of Musei, but mainly >> in his activities as a benshi. >> >> Dym: "Tokugawa Musei: A Portrait Sketch of One of Japan's Greatest >> Narrative Artists." In Praise of Film Studies: Essays in Honor of Makino >> Mamoru. >> >> Omori: https://www.routledgehandbooks.com/doi/10.4324/9781315534374-12 < >> https://www.routledgehandbooks.com/doi/10.4324/9781315534374-12> >> >> So you could inquire with them about any archives they have used. >> >> >> Aaron Gerow >> Professor >> Film and Media Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures >> Chair, East Asian Languages and Literatures >> Yale University >> 143 Elm Street, Room 210 >> PO Box 208324 >> New Haven, CT 06520-8324 >> USA >> Phone: 1-203-432-7082 >> Fax: 1-203-432-6729 >> e-mail: aaron.gerow at yale.edu >> site: www.aarongerow.com >> >> >> >> >> -------------- next part -------------- >> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >> URL: < >> http://mailman.yale.edu/pipermail/kinejapan/attachments/20210908/a3d017fe/attachment-0001.html >> > >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Message: 2 >> Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2021 21:15:53 +0000 (UTC) >> From: Roger Macy >> To: 'Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum' >> Subject: Re: [KineJapan] Tokugawa Musei >> Message-ID: <143248728.4776411.1631135753646 at mail.yahoo.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" >> >> >> Thank you Adrian, Jasper and Aaron for yourinterest. >> Adrian,?I've been incontact with the Royal Archives and the Royal >> Collections Trust in Windsor, the archives at Buckingham Palace and the >> Queen's private office, as well asthe Imperial Household Agency. From the >> lower depths of London, where I come from, we would say I've hadmore royal >> brush-offs than you've had hot dinners ;>) >> In truth, Rachel Peat of the Royal Collections made useful suggestions >> and they have allresponded. The BFI is a hopeless black hole. They've been >> sitting on the printfor 70 years but have no knowledge how they got it and >> no interest in it. I wastold six years ago that it was not on the list of >> Palace acquisitions.? Ieven asked for the list, a couple of months ago to >> check, but, as usual, havehad no response. >> But I don't thinkit got to the Palace.? The plans of Prince and Princess >> Chichibu werecurtailed by their illnesses and, one can hazard, other >> developments in 1937.The Princess wrote a memoir, which even name-drops a >> birth-family connection tothe Princess Elizabeth, but which doesn't mention >> a princess Kaguya. >> Nevertheless, a second, 1937print did get to London.? There had to be >> some ambition. It's tantalizing.? What weretheir plans as they set sail ? >> I'd like to hear from Japan's No. 1 film explainer, who was there onhand. >> So, thank you, Aaron and Jasper, I'll take up your suggestions.Roger >> >> >> >> On Wednesday, 8 September 2021, 13:13:38 BST, Adrian- Restoration >> Asia wrote: >> >> >> Dear Roger, >> >> ? >> >> When you say the Royal Archives are you speaking about the British Royal >> Family?s archives at Windsor Castle? >> >> ? >> >> >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. >> >> ? >> >> Best regards, >> >> ? >> >> Adrian Wood >> >> ? >> >> From: KineJapan On Behalf Of Roger Macy via KineJapan >> Sent: 08 September 2021 20:14 >> To: KineJapan discussion forum >> Cc: Roger Macy >> Subject: [KineJapan] Tokugawa Musei >> >> ? >> >> Dear KineJapaners, >> >> I?m writing to ask whether anyone has done work on Tokugawa Musei, or >> knows where his archives are. >> >> 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. >> >> My quest, still, is to try and nail down any history of the Kaguya 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. >> >> Mar?a Jos? has kindly looked at his published reminiscences but they have >> not revealed anything relevant. >> >> 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 Britain and Japan ? 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These articles have been collected in a special Kimetsu-themed issue of our grad journal, *Transcommunication*, which is now available open access to anyone who would like to know more about this media phenomenon from a variety of different perspectives: https://waseda.repo.nii.ac.jp/index.php?action=pages_view_main&active_action=repository_view_main_item_snippet&index_id=4200&pn=1&count=20&order=7&lang=english&page_id=15&block_id=22 Considering the typical academic publication cycle and the fact that the second season "Yukakuhen" arc (my personal favorite) is about to start, we're happy that we can still talk about this franchise "in the moment" before everyone has moved onto the next anime flavor of the month. Best, Bryan Hikari Hartzheim Graduate School of International Culture and Communication Studies Waseda University -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From aarmher at yahoo.es Thu Sep 23 05:10:50 2021 From: aarmher at yahoo.es (Alejandra Armendariz) Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2021 09:10:50 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [KineJapan] 2nd Symposium and Film Screenings on Haneda Sumiko References: <2109017004.748968.1632388250822.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <2109017004.748968.1632388250822@mail.yahoo.com> Dear KineJapaners, We are pleased to invite you to the second online symposium on Japanese documentary filmmaker Haneda Sumiko, which will be held next week on Thursday 30 September 2021, 9:00am?? 6:00pm (UK Time). You can register via Zoom HERE and find the programme of the symposium below and on the Japan Research Centre (SOAS) website HERE. There will also be virtual screenings of two films directed by Haneda, which have been especially subtitled in English for this project: * Dedicated Treasures of Horyuji-Temple (H?ry?ji ken'n? h?motsu, 1971, 20min) - This film will be shown live and exclusively during the symposium to those attending on Thursday 30 September, between 3.00pm ? 4.00pm?(BST) * The Japanese Settlers to the Manchuria and Inner Mongolia of Mainland China (Aa Manm? Kaitaku-dan, 2008, 120min)? This film will be available on Friday 1st and Saturday 2nd Octoberat Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image (BIMI) screeningplatform. Those registering for the symposium will receive the link and password on Friday 1st October. Please check your spam folder. We look forward to meeting you online next week. Thank you, The organising committee Marcos Centeno, Irene Gonz?lez-L?pez, Alejandra Armend?riz-Hern?ndez andRicardo Matos Cabo -------------- Japanese Documentary Filmmaker Haneda Sumiko: Authorship and Gender Discourses. 2nd Symposium REGISTRATION This event is free and open to public. If you would like to attend the event please register. Please register via Zoom. PROGRAMME Thursday 30th September 2021 Morning | 9.00am - 9.10am (UK Time) | Introduction. Marcos Centeno, Irene Gonz?lez-L?pez, Alejandra Armend?riz-Hern?ndez, Ricardo Matos? | | 9.10am ? 10.05am?(UK Time)? | Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano (Kyoto University) Making Meaning of Haneda's 'Japanese Women': A Women's College in the Village (Mura no fujin gakkyu, 1957) and The Cherry Tree with Gray Blossoms (Usuzumi no sakura, 1977). Moderator: Marcos Centeno | | 10.05am ? 10.15am?(UK Time) | Break | | 10.15am - 10.35am (UK Time) | Marcos Centeno (Birkbeck/UV guest lecturer at Nanzan Univ.) Haneda Sumiko's Transnational Cinema: Japanese Settlers in Manchuria | | 10.35am ? 10.55am?(UK Time) | Hikari Hori (Toyo University) Solitude and Documentary: Haneda Sumiko in the 1980s and 1990. | | 10.55am ? 11.15am?(UK Time) | Discussion Moderator:?Forum Mithani (Cardiff) | | 11.20am ? 11.45am?(UK Time) | Screening the work of Haneda Sumiko. Notes on the circulation and distribution of Japanese documentary - Part I Working with Haneda Sumiko Pre-recorded conversation with Sat? Tokue, filmmaker, Haneda Sumiko?s personal assistant, Manager of Kanatasha, Inc Interviewer: Irene Gonz?lez-L?pez | Afternoon | 3.00pm ? 4.00pm?(UK Time) | Live Screening: Dedicated Treasures of Horyuji-Temple (H?ry?ji ken'n? h?motsu, Haneda Sumiko, 1971, 20min) Introduction: Alejandra Armend?riz-Hern?ndez (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos) | | 4.00pm ? 4.55pm?(UK Time) | Anne McKnight (University of California, Riverside) Usuzumi and Eco-thinking Moderator: Teresa Castro (Universit? Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3) | | 4.55pm ? 5.05pm?(UK Time) | Break | | 5.05pm ? 5.50pm?(UK Time) | Screening the work of Haneda Sumiko. Notes on the circulation and distribution of Japanese documentary - Part II Roundtable Alexander Jacoby (Oxford Brookes University), Irene Gonz?lez-L?pez (Birkbeck) Moderator: Ricardo Matos (Birkbeck) | | 5.50pm ? 6.00pm?(UK Time) | Closing remarks | Friday 1st October - Saturday 2nd October 2021 Online film screening: The Japanese Settlers to the Manchuria and Inner Mongolia of Mainland China (Aa Manm? Kaitaku-dan, Haneda Sumiko, 2008, 120min). BIMI. Free but it is necessary to be enrolled in the symposium to have access to the film. -------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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