[KineJapan] Tokugawa Musei

[Adrian- Restoration Asia]

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 <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu>
Cc: Roger Macy <macyroger at yahoo.co.uk>
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.

María José 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/20210908/261a4e7f/attachment.html>