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Bushido and the Two Souls of Inazo Nitobe (I)

Bushido and the Two Souls of Inazo Nitobe (I)

  • 29th December 2022

Zwei Seelen wohnen, ach! in meiner Brust (Goethe, Faust 1, verse 1112) Two souls, alas! reside within my breast (transl. Bayard Taylor, 1887) ‘Scratch a Japanese of the most advanced ideas, and he will show a samurai.’ (Bushido, p.89). Such is the essence of Inazo Nitobe’s (1862-1933) message in his…

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It’s a Long Way to Tipperary – from Sendai

It’s a Long Way to Tipperary – from Sendai

  • 10th November 2021

Come to think of it, it’s a really long way to Tipperary from the provincial town in northern Japan. But that didn’t prevent a Japanese high school student from singing the テッペラリーソング (‘Tipperary Song’), in a concert at Miyagi Teacher Training College in Sendai in February 1916. Published in 1912…

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The Premiere of Kate I. Hansen’s Slesvig, Sendai, 11 June 1932

The Premiere of Kate I. Hansen’s Slesvig, Sendai, 11 June 1932

  • 5th June 2018

As described in my previous blog, The Suzuki String Quartet and Kate I. Hansen’s Slesvig, the first performance of the entire quartet, Slesvig (or “Schlesvig”, as Hansen spells the title), took place on 11 June 1932, at Miyagi College in Sendai. Hansen had taught at the college since 1907 and…

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