2021年8月

Birthday

Wednesday, August 31 1921: Sculptor, Takahashi Go was born.

921 (Taisho 10) Wednesday, August 31 Sculptor Takahashi Go was born in Chiyoda, Sakata City, Yamagata Prefecture. His real name was Takeshi TAKAHASHI. For generations, his birthplace in Yamagata made a living as a wood carver for shrines and temples, known as miyaborishi (wood carver). Takahashi Tsuyoshi also studied under his father from a young age, and started to carve the family business of temples and shrines. In 1940 (Showa 15), he moved to Tokyo at the age of 19, and the following year he entered the Tokyo School of Fine Arts (present Tokyo University of Arts), where he mastered his skills under the sculptor Sekino Seiun. With World War...
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Monday, August 29 1921: The First Kamikaze attack leader SEKI Yukio was born.

1921 (Taisho 10) Monday, August 29 SEKI Yukio, who later became leader of the Kamikaze Tokkotai “Shikishima-Unit,” was born in Omachi Town, Nii County, Ehime Prefecture. It corresponds to the present Saijo City. My father Katsutaro was an antique dealer. He went from Omachi Elementary School to Saijo Junior High School (now Ehime Prefectural Saijo High School), and then to the Naval Academy in December 1938 (Showa 13). In 16 1941, he graduated from the Naval Academy. He is a 70 year graduate. In the same class was pilot Kanno Naoshi, also called the Ace of Shooting Down. In 1943 (Showa 18), he was assigned to the Kasumigaura Air Corps....
Art

Sunday, August 28 1921: The movie “Disraeli” was released in the United States

1921 (Taisho 10) The movie “Disraeli” was released in the United States on Sunday, August 28. It is a film about the life of British politician Benjamin Disraeli in the early 19 century. Veteran actor George Arlis played the main character, Disraeli. Benjamin Disraeli is a highly respected figure in Britain, a Jewish who rose to be leader of Britain’s Conservative Party and served as prime minister for two terms. This film will be released in Japan 3 years later on July 8, 1924 (Taisho 13), but after the start of the screening, a part of the film was considered problematic and the screening was cancelled on July 12. At...
Art

Saturday, August 27 1921: Actress Yoko Yaguchi was born, later the wife of Akira Kurosawa.

1921 (Taisho 10) Saturday, August 27 Actress Yoko Yaguchi was born in Hong Kong. His real name was Kiyo KUROSAWA. She is the wife of movie director Akira Kurosawa. As my father was an employee of Nippon Yusen, I spent my childhood overseas. After being born in Hong Kong, he returned home after finishing elementary school in Shanghai. She entered Showa Girls’ High School (currently Showa High School attached to Showa Women’s University), but at the age of 17, in grade 4, she dropped out of the school in admiration of actress Takiko Mizunoe and joined Shochiku Shojo Kagekidan in 1937 (Showa 12). In 1940 (Showa 15), he moved to...
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Friday, August 26 1921: Seibu Railway opened between Yodobashi and Ogikubo.

1921 (Taisho 10) Friday, August 26 Seibu Railway opened between Yodobashi and Ogikubo. Seibu Tramway is a tram owned by Seibu Railway, a private railway company. From Ogikubo station, streetcars will run on Ome Kaido towards Shinjuku. Yodobashi is the upper bridge across Kandagawa River which is located on the border between Shinjuku Ward and Nakano Ward along Oume Kaido Road. Until 1947 (Showa 22), the area where the present Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building is located was an administrative district called “Yodobashi Ward”, and is now also used as an old name for the area around the west exit of Shinjuku Station. For example, the name remains in Yodobashi Camera,...
2021

The general election is likely to be postponed until late November after shocking defeat in Yokohama.

*According to a survey by the Liberal Democratic Party, it is expected to fall below the majority in the House of Representatives election. *Secretary General Nikai retires voluntarily. *Suga will postpone the general election until late November. It was another shocking defeat. The defeat in the mayoral election in Yokohama, where Suga had been a member of the Yokohama City Assembly for a long time and still has many children, was a red light for the administration of Prime Minister Suga. The Liberal Democratic Party, which has been criticized for “no” to the vagueness of the novel coronavirus countermeasures, is worried that “Suga cannot compete in the general election,” but...
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Monday, August 22 1921: Nagoya City annexed 16 towns and villages.

1921 (Taisho 10) Monday, August 22: Nagoya City annexed 16 towns and villages in the vicinity and became a major city. The city area has doubled and is twice the size of Tokyo at that time. The population was 600,000, 1/3 of that of Tokyo. However, five towns and villages of Shimonoisshiki, Kawanaka, Hagino, Shonai and Tenpaku were not merged this time. During World War I, heavy industry developed and urban planning progressed. Nagoya’s city planning is famous for its wide roads. The Taisho period is well known as the period in which railways were developed throughout Japan. According to a thesis “Road Development in Nagoya in the Meiji and...
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Sunday, August 21 1921: The second son of Viscount Otawara was arrested.

1921 (Taisho 10) On Sunday, August 21, it was reported that Junior Lieutenant Shu Otawara (35), the second son of Kazukiyo Otawara (viscount), the last lord of the Otawara Domain in former Tochigi Prefecture (the 14th), was arrested at Ueno Station. Shu was arrested by a plain-clothes detective on alert for the eighth crime he committed in Ueno Station. A scandal about a noble family attracted public attention. Shimotsuke Province is famous as the birthplace of NASU no Yoichi. The Nasu clan had seven powerful vassals called Nasu Shichiki. One of them is Mr. Otawara. In the 16 century, Japan’s Sengoku period, when the Nasu clan joined Hideyoshi Toyotomi’s attack...
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Saturday, August 20 1921: Yanagihara Byakuren published Self Collected Poems.

1921 (Taisho 10) Saturday, August 20 Yanagihara Byakuren published “Byakuren Jissen Kashu” (Collection of Selected Poems by Byakuren), in which she selected her poems. Byakuren’s real name is Akiko. She is the second daughter of Count Sakimitsu Yanagiwara, a venerable court noble. She was born in Tokyo as Yanagihara Akiko on October 15, 1885. Her father named Akiko after the gorgeous appearance of National Dance hall, Rokumeikan. Yanagihara Naruko is one of her aunt. Naruko is mother of Emperor Taisho so Byakuren and Emperor Taisho were cousins. Akiko entered Kazoku Jogakko (now Gakushuin Girls’ Junior High School) at the age of 13, but at the age of 15 she married...
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Thursday, August 18 1921: Kokkatsu actresses and staff members criticized the company.

1921 (Taisho 10) On Thursday, August 18, actresses and staff members of Kokkatsu (Kokusai Katsuei), a film production company, held an unusual speech in which they criticized the company. Kokusai Katsuei was a new film company established 1 and a half years ago in December 1919. It was established by the so-called “bubble gentlemen” who raised money during the boom of World War I and the war boom. The president is Kisaburo KOBAYASHI who used to work at Nikkatsu. With two studios in Sugamo and Tsunohazu, we will be able to mass-produce as many as 120 films in 2 years’ time. However, due to the management turmoil and the economic...