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Former Internees Of U.S. Concentration Camps Play Roles In Evacuation Film
TULE
LAKE.'— The filming lied r to locations. at _ Tule Lake, props.
pi'ops.i. But
TULELAKE.-.,
But somehow I-found
I -found my£ «j?arewell to .Manzanar”- - has Santa Rita, Richmond, and Tibu- self moving with-’ the -mob. Dur­
been a deeply personal experi­ ron at various times in order ing the actual riot, 33 years’ago,
ence for many former internees to . take part in the movie. Am-' we had chanted.“Free Harry!”
who have’ been involved in the orig' the; extras was Jimmy Na­ because it was Harry .Ueno, the
production. Based -upon the book- kamura , of San. Mateo who tra­ cook, who had been wrongfully
bv Jeanne Wakatsuki
Houston velled to both Tule Lake ' and imprisoned. In the movie we we­
and James D. Houston, and pro­ Santa Rita. Nakamura spent- the re supposed to say “FREE Joe”.
duced and directed by John Kor- war years at Manzanar and la­ But I found myself
shouting
ty, the shooting of the
movie ter at Tule Lake. He was 18 at “Harry !Harry!”_ It was. unbeli­
version is now near completion, the time of , the Manzanar riot evable how I seemed to be go­
and many participants have com­ and had been a participant in it. ing through the same1 experien­
mented on the effect the pro due - ■ “I wasn’t sure If: I wanted to ce again. When: the guns start­
be in the riot scene. . . especia­ ed firing I felt the same terror
tion-has had upon them._ •'
Over 300' extras have trave- lly/ when I saw- the machine gun It really- hit me the next mor-

ning when I awoke. I cried for chose to be involved in this film
“sentimental* reasons.” I
hours. . . the tears
wouldn’t for
wanted to get in touch with, that
stop.”
more
Pat Morita, well-known enter­ part of my past. I got
tainer. and actor, -plays; the part than I bargained for. ’. .1 had
of a wise and -whimsical , Issei forgotten about the ? heat, - the
photographer who ,.records /‘his­ dust, . and the wind! It’s been
tory” within the camp , with -his an- incredible and’: important ex­
“contraband”
camera. : -Morita perience forme!”
was in his teens when', he was
Akemi Kikumura, an actress
interned at Tule Lake. “When with the East-West Players and
I arrived at Bob Kinoshita’s set, a-graduate student in anthropo­
I was jolted back- in time when logy at UGLA, play® the role
I was a teenager, growing up
among these same barracks. I-

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The De to Canadian
, An Independent Organ for Canadians of Japanese Origin
Vol- XXXIX I__ 68

~

TUESDAY, SEPT. 9, 1975

A Rose By
Any Other Name

-

Toronto, Ont.

Federal Cabinet To Get SOS
Tor. Sansei
From UBC Asian Centre
Awarded
Grant

VANCOUVER. — 'A fund-ra- Asian books.
ising • committee i seeking : - more
The~centre is' the brainchild
By BILL MARUTANI
federal money for the Universi-. of Dr.- .Shotaro Iida? an assist­
ty of - B.C.’s Asian Studies Cent- ant-.-professor of religious;Ju­

UNDOUBTEDLY YOU’VE HAD a similar experience. You
TORONTO. — Mr.
Kenneth re will take its case to" the ca­ dies at - UBC: He - first_ had- the *
meet ah'acquaintance from pre^^
or' camp days; he was known
te ybu as/let’s say “Hichihaimon”.;(in which case it. no doubt was. Fukuda of Toronto has received binet now: that * it has been re- idea when visiting -the -Sanyo
shortened in ,the schoolyard-to*plain “Hi ch”.), But now today, this the Central Mortgage and Hou­ jeeted by the" external affairs de­ pavilion at’ Expo. 70 * in Osaka,',
Japan.; The , Sanyo: . corporation '
being a -few years removed - from those/ schoolyard days, you re­ sing Corporation’s Graduate Fe­ partment.
Committee chairman Joe Whi- later': donated/the/pyramid-shap-:
fer to- him by . his full,^proper, given nam: Hichihaimon.You no- llowship Award for. 1975-76 for.
* tice a short of ' sheepish smile and just a hint of squirming, and study toward LL.B. at .Osgoode thehead. said recently .' a< request ed structure for. the centre.*
-for $1.5 million, to pay for the'
But * Matsuba/said' the 'centre '
you quickly leam why:_all of his current friends call him —;and Hall Law School.
_ ,
get: this':/-: “Llewellyn”.- Which mercifully is shortened ,to “Lew”,
Mr. Fukuda already has a BA. lighting and heating -equipment, wiH be much different from-the '
THE NAMES HAVE been ^changed to protect the guilty, but and Master of Science in Unban will be made through' Senator Sanyo pavilion; because' the-.cliand Regional Planning. He
is- Ray Perrault. The ' federal * go mate and the. use tor ' which it
perhaps you get the point.
already
given:
-AND ALTHOUGH IT’S awkward to call him by his current the son of the late Mr. George. vernment has
$400,000.
'

/ will be'piit are - different. ~ . ‘ ~
'monicker^bf “Lew”, —' it’s'as if one were -referring.,to some stran- Fukuda and Toshiko Fuku-da. .'
- Whitehead ., was speaking ; /as
He described-how the ..reflec­
■ ger. or newly-found acquaintance,.rather ‘than good pl’ “Hitch”, —
the committee toured the pyra­ ting walls of' the pyramid wilk
you manage to . articulate this new name.' - (“Gads”, you ? think to
youVself, .“with the whole world to pick from, where in dickens
mid-shaped, empty-shell which change with the seasons.
The
did he manage -to dig ’up ‘Llewellyn’ ?”) 'And when you fondly re­
is $2.7 million away . from com­ rain will cascade_off the sides
call the things that both of-you shared, as kids, somehow, it just
pletion. -The committee -includes into pools surrounding, it./
doesn’t ring 'true when you - refer to him as “Lew”: it was coun­ ' MOSCOW. — “Dersu Uzala,”
UBC president Douglas' Kenny
The design is basedupon Ja- *
try lad Hitch. Not-Llewellyn.'
a nearly 2 and half hour film
panese architecture; Matsuba^sa-?
- EXCUSING A BIT-* of personal' reference, ' if the truth be about a Russian fisherman -which and-local businessmen. _
-known, actually.: my 'first name isn’t William either:: it’s Masaha- was directed by Akira Kurosa­
The committee last year rai­ id, “and that’s what ' Japanese'
ru. The middlS’ .name of “William” was an, after-thought by my wa, received a warm reception sed the $1.6 million the 1 centre architecture is all about;—.chan/ging,with the seasons.”
1 _ \
parents\who ' thought it only proper to . recognize the doctor who when shown at the ninth ann­
was expected to. cost, but estim’a
Whitehead,* publisher 'of ’ thedelivered ■ this . columnist, Dr. William; Taylor who I believe - .was ual Moscow International Film
once.-.dn; Auburn; -Washington. (Ed -often- thought howAmuch more Festival, last month. . The . audi­ tes . have 'risen* to ' $4.3 a ... million Journal of Commerce, said if the
complex-life in the schoolyard would have, been for me if that ence—rose to - applaud, the Japa­ because of spiralling constructi­ funding " pomes- inr-soo^^
thecentre-willbe completedrin:
nese director at the-conclusion of on costs, Whitehead said.
'doctor’s name- had been, stay, “Percival’’.)
■ >-<
?■ a
u
time for? Habitat ‘76, ■ therUnited >■
,
/AS IT WAS, even with that name “William” life wasn’t a the screening.
- The fund raisers will seek mo­
Nations 'conference -on -human"
. becLof-roses for me during-recess, for more/than once did I have
ney from the private sector/and settlements', - slated for May. 27 <
^defend that label in the schoolyard: pafticulalry when the kids
from Asian governments which through June 11 1976,. in -.Vanco­
found,out that'there was a. flower.— of all thing — called “Sweet
.
have
already contributed heavi­ uver.
Williams’”. (To this day, w e’ve , never- had any growing in our
'/

We

re
excited
about "the ’pro-ly to the centre, he said.
flower garden, at least not knowingly.) Andin those days when
ject
and
we

re
determined
to co- ?
SAN FRANCISCO. A Tokyo
roost Nisei/sought .shelter by seeking 'to be -110% American (and
Kenny said he is “hopeful that
mplete"
it,

he/added.


It

s
a na­
I wqs assuredly ■ one of them) I wasn’t- about to jump from the taxi driver says he played the funds* can still be raised -priva-:
tional
asset.

'
\
frying ..pan' into- the-fire by telling the kids - that,-.really, my first saxaphone and.rode out three gately” as the University is• una­
les- on a 9000-mile, 48-day solo
name,wasn’t William, that/iVwas. Masaharu.
■ -• ble do support’ the -‘centre beyond
S-^
or not the practice . of giving sail across the Pacific.
‘'aV/nihon-m'^
speak) to the progeny*of the Issei is - dying. z Yukoh Tada, completed the its original - contribution i of - the
MvOn'the' level of the/Nisei -generation, at. least in my sphere of. journey recently . in - a ,30-fopt, site, he said. / ' s.”
designed
feiperience,-1 are-'indeed was the . Nisei who hadn’t been endowed twomasted vessel he
The ’fund* raisers were taken
Jith a,“nihon-mei”. As for"the Sansei, I receive some hard statis- and helped build himself. He said through . empty spaces, outlined ? TOKYO. ./^' Japan’s population
tics whenever I see something formal, such as a wedding invitation. he lived on rice,- seaweed and by unfinished concrete
-under
exceeded: theL 110 milliorideyel-ata
h And I am always delighted to see a “nihon-mei”^ usually as the soybean paste during his .non- the, large metalic pyramid.
/
the -end of March, up three.' ti-stop trip from Japan.
h roiddle name. *
.
.
' Led by Architect ’ Don Matsu­
Tada
When
in
calm
waters,
FOR NO LONGER need we/or. anyone else for that matter,
ba, the committee was shown the mesi the<34310,000/ figure? whensaid-hepainted,.listened
to.
jazz
future^'home of . a . library . .that the nation took/its- first- census ’
p hide ourselves'in order to seek to demonstrate an extra ten percent.
cassettes and practiced on - his will house 180,000 Asian -langu­ in 1872,*’the-Home<Affairs Mini- ’
saxophone. He said. he withsto­ age books; a theatre, music ^ro­
stry announced ..recently.,
od three gales without use of his om and' the, offices of the Asian
The; mmistry’-said Jean’s-to­
boat’s auxiliary engine.
studies department- . . ; - ■*':.".
tal
population? stood.at .110,948,/
And/‘now he wants to do it
KAGOSHIMA. — Two - boys, recently. . ' '
“This: will .be the centre 'for
again
the
other,
way.
Tada,
said
■^•2'andb, fatally*stabbed a --The stabbing occuired when
Asian - references : in Canada,” 837; as. of March.-’31, up'3.1/ .per­
he would race his boat, the Oka?
^ay - old 'girl, cliained .her - up
cent over ' previous: year. There
the infant’s- parents were taking ra IH> in atrans-Pacific - solo Whitehead commented.; '
Jn A garden and told authorities
the were.1,424,765 more’* women than The;* library will include
ater, .“We were just .following care _of silkworms nearby, the race- to Okinawa: beginning Ser
National
Library

s
collectionof men-in Japan, it/added.
plember 20.
A television: show/’ officers . said house'. . :

Kurosawa Gets,
Moscow Plaudits

Tokyo Cabbie
Sails Pacific

Jph. Population
Tops 1 lOMillion

W Violence Has Impact On Jpn. Kids

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T HE

PAGE k

PostWW2 Officers Now Leaders In SDF
2" TOKYO. * -f Officers (of the by .the Imperial - Army;, and Na­

NEW

CANA DIAN

3-*

Tuesday, September 9, 1975

Trade Publication Gives Rare Look
Into Japanese Business Mentality

The New Canadian
/ • Aatociatton of Ontario

' postwar - generation ■ are gradually vy: were still *at 'the Military ASecond Class mall
/ taking over command of J apian’s cademy and the 'Naval Academy
No. D-0366
armed forces as career soldiers when the war ended 30 years ago.
ner left the room and when, he
By STEVE WILSON
T. UMEZUKI Rublia&er
who suivived- World War II are • . Meanwhile, .officers of the po-_
came back later the salesmen,
K. C. TSUMURA
.fast fading away. \
Foreign executi- “Wad put all the money in a. pi­
stwar generation, especially De­
TOKYO.
English Section/ Editor According to
Kyodo
News fense Academy graduates have ves here say the real “mysteri­ le. . . and were dividing it equa­
KEN MORI
Japanese
Section Editor
Service, in less than. 10 years, been . commissioned since those' ous Orient” is not found in back
lly-”
z
there will “not' eyen be one offi- in. the first class, left the acade­ alley shops and ancient temples, ‘ “I guarantee-there is not one
479 QUEEN ST. WEST
/ cerLcommissioned by the: defunct my in 1957. They have already- but in Japan’s . bewildering busi­ sales manager in the West devot­
Toronto, Ont. M5V-2A9
Imperial Army or'Navy, and 0- been promoted up to the post of. ness world.
ing one-eighth of the time to find
866-5005
; fficers - without. combat: experien- lieutenant colonel and commdn- - American and European 'busi­ how to replace money as an inc­
- ce, recruited ' after? the war,: will der.
nessmen assigned to Japan con-, entive as we have had to do he­
be commanding .the /Ground, Ma­
’.■ Many . of older Defense Aca= stantly are struggling with sa­ re,” the American added.
ritime; and Air Self-D
One solution - is to - create
demy graduates are- now comm­ lesmen who don’t like cash . inc­
ces.
don’t group. prizes, such as trips for
anding' battalions in the GSDF, entives, accountants who
the destroyers in the MSDF and fig­ worry too much about costs and all the salesmen or in some other
* The •■number of officers
Help Wanted
from hter squadrons in; the ASDF.
•group1 decision making where no way reward everyone
three’ services took, over
equally INSTITUTIONAL: cook wanted,'
one- takes - the blame — or. cre­ for expanding sales.
the.disbanded Army and Navy
■ /
Experienced in- quantity cookery,
peak of //Besides, about 8,000 civilian u- dit--- for failure and success.;//:
has? dropped from - a
An Australian executive * -said Excellent wage 2: and benefits,
.6,300 in ,1960 to 1,800, according niversity graduates- are serving
A new. booklet by the Japan the Japanese ' are more interest­ Phone/ 676-1200, Ext. 250.
to the Defense Agency.
as officers in the. three services. External Trade Organization pro­ ed in making their business big-,
-_ -j .They account for a
mere 5
’Although graduates of the Mi­ vides a rare glimpse; .of Japan’s ger — rather than making .them
per cent of a total of "35,800 of- litary Academy are still holding corporate Values without going more profitable. This means’ th­
/ - ficers tof hthe .GSDF, MSDF• and such important 'posts as chiefs into how this resource poor,- nar ey often "forget about , costs1z in
(Cunt.: from Page One)
_ ‘ASDF, whose combined numeri­ of - staff of tihe GSDF, MSDF and tibn became the world’s- No..- 3 the struggle? to expand a comp­
of
Chiyoko
Kakatsuki in the film,any’s share , of the market.. .
cal strength in 237,000.
ASDF. and commanding generals ,economic power.
Her
family,
was interned for two
“There is a fundamental dif­
The publication, illustrates1; a
Moreover, only a handful of of GSDF divisions, combat units
years
,
at
Rohwer, ' Arkansas'
ference in accounting practice; at"
.World War'll .survivors -1 have are actually -controlled by offic­ lot about the ■ Japanese, wayrof. all. .' . because I’ve never, came camp.'
thinking which few Westerners
. combat experience; in; the Pa ei- ers of the postwar^ generation.
“I- was born after,” she says,
I
across
cost
accountants
in
their
understand. The vast differencesv fic - Wan. They include Gen. MoA' young officer /said officers
“the youngest of eleven children,
■im
business' practices it covers: a- factories,. shipyards, etc. . /.. ! toharu^sShirakawa, chairman of of /his generation should be able
so I wasn’t . there. And since
• It’s like the old money- lender
,~the Joint Staff Office; who is a- to make up for lack of war com­ Iso explains much about why. the
then, no one in my family has
' mong the .oldest, officers in acti­ bat experience ;by: .undergoing, Japanese economy has femained; with his money in a bag;:’ They- talked much .about it. Being in
pay it until the bag is- empty,
hard " training and ? studying war so closed to foreigners.
ve service.
the - film . has. given me deeper
and then they- put it back again
More
than
lOO

big
internatio
­

” •
"
Most’ other, officers left behind history.
insights intoi^^
thbre
nal companies1 have ' operations and if there is anything left at and swhy we are the way we are
in Japan, usually in a joint vent­ the’end of the year, that’s fine.
now.
ure with a Japanese .firm. Wri­ 7 “No matter what you might
“My family is a lot like the
ters of-this booklet-promised an­ ■think because of your own busi­ family.. in the film. .Seeing the
system
onymity % to the foreign -executi­ ness -background, the
barracks re-created at Tale Lake
ves they interviewed and' the works and Japan has - pro spered
where,
somexof my relatives were
Australian
results are an unusually honest because of- it,”; the
interned, - and playing the role of
,
description of; Japanese business said.
” RCA —ZENITH
Adds
a
European
: “You'have a young motheriin 5 the prime of
practices.
her life,- bearing children under
more
SALES & SERVICE
„ The foreign businessmen ass­ to accept that they are
such circumstances — it’s like re­
igned tb: Japan often “complain concerned with long-term goals living a part of my family’s his­
COLOR
T.V.
SHOP
that -after being here for ; five of market position- rather than tory - .’and ; understanding' it for
AND
years they still; don’t have many shorterm- profits.” ,
the, first time.”
Getting agreement with. Japa­
Stereo Components
"friends, the sort they can lightly
The production is. now in loca­
rphone just7 for a: chat,’’ admitted nese/business partners often is tion in Tiburon and
Toronto',
/ 1055 .MIDLAND AVE.Marshall
the Japanese manager .of one jo­ one of ther most frustrating as­ Where Scenes' before the war are
(ORIOLE PLAZA)
Hume ? Store -463-3426
pects of doing business in Japam
SCARBORO Phone 759-1588 ' int sales venture.
being filmed.
Home. 469-0293
The ■ delays seem to be due in lar­
The cultural differences "also
Betweefi Eglinton A.Lawrence
ge part; to' the . time, consuming
mean; “It’s very difficult for,the
/ Deliver Eveuiuge
group decision makings byJapa: (foreign) wife to live in Japan,
■ and Satadaji
nese.
probably, much "more so ’' than
- “There, is no sense of respon­
most -other places,” added an Asibility , ip . Japan. 1;.,” said 1 one
merican.
investment advisor.
z'
Excellent, opportunity for fur
ThiNew Canadian
<
.
s ?An Australian explained: -“Ja­
“There is no one who is indi­
finisher-or;s person willing to
panese '. women are not' involved vidually responsible: because the­
' V?479: QUEEN ST. WEST, TORONTO, ONT. M5V 2A9
learn.Applyinperson.
in’ anything, so our wive s cannot re is no such concept in Japane­
for which
be involved. My wife has never- se society. : This, I think, is z one
■ Please find enclosed $.................
met anyone involved in my busi- of? the biggest problems facing^ NORMAN ROGUL FUR CO.
Renew my. .subscription.
ness.” - . ■
the foreignsbusinessmen : coming
year/months
Enterymy new/subscription for
111 Peter- Street, Toronto
also here to negotiate.”
.The cultural differences
v Phone 363-8819
mean that using western tech- /•'The Japanese value gotod rela<
$100 per. year
$9.00 for 6 Months
niques to get the most out of 'tions - with fellow, employees, te-;
Japanese, employees often does am<spirit and security above all.
NAME (MR. MRS. MISS)
not- work out as expected
for else. One result of this feeling, is
the/ foreigner. - <.--.
/that; even if you'have a lazy , and
ADDRESS .
“Businessmen who . come here unneeded worker, you cannot fire
quickly find that the lure, of ex-- him. r
PROV_
CITY
tra cash does not go over well. i “Maybe the other-Japanese.. st­
The main reason is that it in­ aff-will; come and tell you that
volves competition.: \ . and that the .man is no good. But they
POSTAL GODE
does not wash to a large degree will change if you try to get rid
in< Japanese society-which is. ge- of him,”, said one foreigner.
ared to the group cooperative ap- ?r “If; you mistreat one of their
proach,” the authors wrote.
contemporaries you will have re­
They quoted one perplexed
al - trouble with the loss of eon-,
$1000 WEEKLY DRAW
merican sales manager who told fidence of your/, staff and offiof a colleague who gave large ce* harmony will suffer — and
SEPTEMBER 3rd WINNER
cash prizes to his Japanese sales­ harmony, you will find, is the
Dr. DONALD FUJINO
men who did the best. After an most/important” element in any
THORNHILL, ONT.
elaborate ceremony, the foreig- Japanese office.”
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NEW

SHIBA KOKAN:
Harbinger Of Westernization
NEW BIOGRAPHY OF JA­
PAN’S PIONEER OF
WEST­
ERNIZATION. Shiba Kokan. By
Calvin L. French. New York/Tokyo: Weatherhill, 1974 Pp. 202.
Plates/ color 15.
monochrome
106. $27.50.
By DONALD RICHIE

to any age, is . at least not favo­
red in this one. Speaking ■ of the:
bad habit of smoking he sugg­
ests ways of: stamping out the
unhealthy custom. One of them
is: “If a boy smokes, his parents
must kill him without delay;”, sa­
gely adding: “Were- the govern­
ment to promulgate such a law,,
within thirty years where would
not be a single smoker left.”

Born in 1747, Shiba . Kokan
But this opinion .-was voiced
was an individual in an age of
in
somewhat, crabbed old age —
wide talents . and insatiable- curio­
he
died-in 1818 at the age of se­
sity, it was he who first introdu­
venty-one.
Toward .the end, like
ced Western-style • painting into
many
a
man
of wide and varied
his country, who? first explained
the Copernican 'theory . of astro-: learning,- likev Leonardo.: himself,
nomy, who taught perspective, to whom Shiba Kokan is ■ some­
compared,
the principles of navigation/'and times undeservingly
he
had
learned
enough
to be awhat he gathered were Europe­
ble
to
say

now
that
I
am an
an social customs.
Supremely
old
man
living
in
retirement,
I
inquisitive, he acquired a wide
no
1
longer
take
pleasure
.
in
the
and varied knowledge and conse­
quently played a major role in ways of men nor find them of
seems
the beginnings of Japan’s , even­ interest.” His example
to
suggest
what
<has
Mong
been
tual modernization.

elsewhere.' Only a gene. xy .

■>
.. noticed
nuwceu. ' eisewntre.
As Galvin 1'rench expresses it
,
, .
.. ,
ignorance is
.
• i, Acrant v wiri. I ral and
long-lived
his .Tfl.RPinflti'ncr.
.
.
->
in his
fascinating, pelegantly
wiri.the proper soil for the aged op­
tten and beautifully structured
timist.
account: “Kokan was probably
.For his age Shiba Kokan was
more responsible than any other
prodigiously
learned, but in ano­
man for the popularization
of
ther
more
curious
and open time
foreign knowledge and for awak­
ening his countrymen to the wo­ and: clime he might have been
rld outside the confines of Ja­ ■thought a dilettante. The worth
consideration
pan. Were it not. for him, the di­ of his art is a
which

Calvin
French
quite can-’
semination of European learning,
didly
finds
beside
the
point: of
techniques, and inventions wo­
the
life;,
likewise,
the
ultimate
uld have progressed more slowly
worth
of
the
science
might
be
... (his) publications enabled
equally
open
to
doubt.
Our
inte
­
men of all classes to discover the
rest
in
the
man
lies
in
his
con
­
wastness of the world and the
junction
with
his
time.
Seen
in
and
variety of peoples, arts,
this context , he is -indeed a phe­
sciences it contained.”
nomenon. '
During this period, the coun-.
tiy officially closed, the people M He criticized his country, both
deep into the longest police-state covertly and overtly, in an age
in history, Shiba Kokan’s views when rocking the, boat, was a
and interests could not be regis­ judicial rather than .a social of­
tered with official favor. .Yet, fense : *he was unsparing ’ of him-.
thougli' missionaries were
still, self and others. He; wanted par­
being arrested -as purveyors^ of ticularly, to light -in others the
which
bur­
Western political thought, this flame of inquiry
ned
so
fiercely
within
him,
and
busy and curious Japanese rema­
found
many

an

example
of
its
ined unmolested, probably becau­
lack.
se of the apparently nonpolitical

nature of his activities. He went
“A few years ago, an elephant
to Nagasaki and actually met was brought to Nakano. At first,
the Dutch, managed to read Wes- a great many persons went to
,tern books which Japan lumped see it; but after a while people
under the general
heading of stopped going, and finally-it was
“Dutch learning,” and little by left, to starve^ to/ death/ , n^
little educated himself. : Though there are only bones remaining.
his activities were later to have I., consider that: a terrible disgra­
great political: consequences— ce to our country.”- \
. 1 '
since they paved the way for
It is
impossible ’ to
like
the Westernization of his count­ Shiba Kokan; whether he advoc­
ry — these were not apparent ates the slaughter of child smo­
during his life. People including kers or not, and it is this affec­
the aristocracy, liked his pictures tion which so clearly shows in.
—- among which were a number Calvin French’s rendering ? and
of clever forgeries of prints of which raises his > account to its
Harunobu — particularly
the very high level. Though a model
new-fangled etchings.
of readable and scholarly : work,
Some of his views, now that it is this affection for; the man
its and all that - he stands for that
Westernization has taken
toll in his country, are not easy makes thejbook important and so
to agree with. He :■ ■ apparently much more than a mere accounconcurred with the Dutch capt­ ting. The author has matched
ain who opined that his own qu­ his. subject's intellectual 'geneiroarters were splendid .because 'sity.
they were -properly
decorated
while the Japanese not; decorat­
ing to his extent, hadr only sim­
ple and primitive -tastes. Shiba
Kokan himself later
wrote- to,
the effect that: since art/must
be a true representation of .rea­
lity, only Western art techni­
ques can capture this quality, and
Japanese painting is thus/mere,
child’s play. There was also: an
which,
edge to his character
while perhaps common enough

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