#Kumiko Kakehashi

[nobuyukikakigi]

拙著『燃エガラからの思考』と渡邊英理『中上健次論』の刊行記念対談のご案内など

拙著『燃エガラからの思考──記憶の交差路としての広島へ』（インパクト出版会）を7月20日に上梓してから二か月が経とうとしています。この間、本書について二つの書評が公表されました。一つは図書新聞の第3557号（2022年9月3日付）に掲載された佐藤泉さんによる書評「無言の深みからなお歌われねばならない歌がある」です。拙著がエピグラフに掲げた原民喜の詩を出発点に、カタストロフィの後の詩の自己刷新が歴史の刷新に通じているという拙著の核心的な論点を取り出していただきました。また、批評的な思考によって「忘却装置」に組み込まれることを拒み、死者とともに生きることに踏みとどまるという本書の思想の分有が、軍備強化と「国葬」へ突き進もうとする現在の焦眉の課題であることも鮮やかに示していただいています。 もう一つは2022年9月18日付の中國新聞朝刊の読書欄に掲載された、この新聞の客員特別編集委員である佐…

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[thedroneranger]

Hey Jay. How are you doing? Would you tell us your top 10 favorite books?

Ahh, thank you, Ari, for the ask!

This was a hard one! I know technically they should be ranked, but I really just picked 10 of the most impactful books I’ve read in my lifetime. For me, impactful means I still think about it whether I read it yesterday or years ago. Here goes nothing!

Copping Free (titled Serpent Girl when I read it), Matthew Carnahan

The Hate U Give, Angie Thomas

The DUFF, Kody Keplinger

Just Like That, Marsha Qualey

The Uglies series, Scott Westerfeld

Call of the Wild + White Fang, Jack London (yes, I cheated)

Prep, Curtis Sittenfeld

Flyboys, James Bradley

Letters from Iwo Jima, Kumiko Kakehashi

Harry Potter series (my favorite book is The Prisoner of Azkaban), She Who Shall Not be Named

Honorable mentions (I said it was hard, ok?!)

Hannibal Lecter series, Thomas Harris

Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson

The Most Dangerous Game, Richard Connell (technically a short story)

That was so much fun. Thank you 🖤

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[sakurasongbook]

It’s Showtime (イッツ・ショウタイム)

Lyrics by Hiroi Ouji, composition by Tanaka Kouhei, arrangement by Kishimura Masami

Performed by Yokoyama Chisa (Shinguuji Sakura), Tomizawa Michie (Kanzaki Sumire), Takano Urara (Maria Tachibana), Nishihara Kumiko (Iris), Fuchizaki Yuriko (Ri Kouran), Tanaka Mayumi (Kirishima Kanna), Ikura Kazue (Reni Milchstrasse), and Orikasa Ai (Fujieda Kaede)

This is the “Shin Ai Yue ni” version. This song was originally from the kayou show “Arabia no Bara.”

Lyrics under the cut

Transcription/romanization by me. I’d appreciate credit if you repost them elsewhere. No reposting to lyric sites/wikis/etc., please.

イッツ・ショウタイム　イッツ・ショウタイム ドゥビドゥドゥビドゥビダバショウタイム

ITTSU SHOUTAIMU ITTSU SHOUTAIMU DUBIDUDUBI DUBIDABA SHOUTAIMU

イッツ・ショウタイム　幕が開き夢の始まり イッツ・ショウタイム　光の魔法が溢れる イッツ・ショウタイム　今宵は心を開いて イッツ・ショウタイム　夢を楽しんでください

ITTSU SHOUTAIMU maku ga hiraki yume no hajimari ITTSU SHOUTAIMU hikari no mahou ga afureru ITTSU SHOUTAIMU koyoi wa kokoro wo hiraite ITTSU SHOUTAIMU yume wo tanoshinde kudasai

情熱と愛と優しさが 私たちをささえる 客席の鼓動が拍手が 私たちをはげます

Jounetsu to ai to yasashisa ga Watashi-tachi wo sasaeru Kyakuseki no kodou ga hakushu ga Watashi-tachi wo hagemasu

ショウは　舞台と客席をつなぐ　虹の架け橋

SHOU wa butai to kyakuseki wo tsunagu niji no kakehashi

*ショウは素敵　今宵の夢よ ショウは素敵　素晴らしい　お客さまに囲まれて 私たち　なんて幸せ

*SHOU wa suteki koyoi no yume yo SHOU wa suteki subarashii okyaku-sama ni kakomarete Watashi-tachi nante shiawase

「ショウタイム...イッツ・ショウタイム！」

“SHOUTAIMU...ITTSU SHOUTAIMU!”

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イッツ・ショウタイム　イッツ・ショウタイム イッツ・ショウタイム　イッツ・ショウタイム ドゥビドゥドゥビドゥ　ドゥビドゥドゥドゥ ドゥビドゥドゥビドゥ　イッツ・ショウタイム ドゥビドゥビドゥドゥビダバ イッツ・ショウタイム！

ITTSU SHOUTAIMU ITTSU SHOUTAIMU ITTSU SHOUTAIMU ITTSU SHOUTAIMU DUBIDUDUBIDU DUBIDUDUDU DUBIDUDUBIDU ITTSU SHOUTAIMU DUBIDUBIDUDUBIDABA ITTSU SHOUTAIMU!

[mykingdomforapen]

inspired by the last one on my FIRST top five ask: top five historical figures people should appreciate more

Ooooh, let’s see....let’s first define ‘appreciate.’ I don’t know if these people are necessarily unknown, because if I’ve heard of them they must be mainstream to some level, haha.  I won’t include Iva Toguri D’Aquino as she is a given, and most of the figures are going to be within the past century since that had been my specialty. How people end up on this list is really about how their stories have stuck to me for probably several years. As a note, I had specialized in European History/WWII, so that’s where most of these people are coming from. 

1. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi--Let’s start with some complexity right off the bat, right? It’s probably a bit odd of me as a Chinese-American to name a general of the Japanese army during WWII as one of the top 5 historical figures, but I had been affected by his story since I was 13 or 14. He was the general of the Japanese army in the battle of Iwo Jima, one of the most brutal battles in the Pacific theatre, I think may be the battle with the most American casualties which was certainly due to his leadership and strategy. He’s incredibly interesting in that he actually pretty much opposed the war with America even before the beginning, and knew that Japan was biting off way more than it could chew, but still committed to his duty. Different from many other officers, he cared a lot about the bottom-rung privates and shared live with them even though he had access to privilege, refused to call for banzai attacks/suicidal missions so that his men would not die needlessly, and cared deeply for his family as shown through the letters still preserved in his memory. 

And then on the other hand, he was the mastermind behind the Iwo Jima tunneling tactic that made it very hard for the Americans to take the island, and called for his soldiers to not die before taking 10 American lives. That’s pretty brutal, but also not unexpected for a general to say at the last year of WWII. I first came across his story from Letters From Iwo Jima and then picked up the biography that the film used as reference So Sad to Fall in Battle by Kumiko Kakehashi. 

2 & 3. Wladislaw Szpilman and Wilm Hosenfeld. Their stories are intertwined so I will put them both in here. Szpilman was a Polish-Jewish pianist during WWII and is the one who wrote the autobiography (turned movie) The Pianist, and Hosenfeld was the Nazi officer who helped hide and take care of him when he found him hiding in an abandoned ghetto. Szpilman’s survival was so affecting and I don’t know, the fact that he still returned to music after all that hell really strikes me. He contributed to my love of Chopin, especially Nocturne in C# Minor. 

Hosenfeld, as mentioned earlier, was a Nazi officer who became disillusioned by the party after he saw how they were treating the Polish and Jewish people, and joined a group of other disillusioned German officials who would give supplies, help, and protect to those being persecuted. He found Szpilman hiding in an abandoned place and they shared a really poignant (and true!!) moment. Unfortunately his story ends tragically, but Szpilman, another testament to the man’s mettle, did all that he could to try to rescue Hosenfeld even when he hadn’t known his name up until the very end, even after all the suffering that Szpilman went through. I had watched clips of the movie in class back in high school, and read the autobiography to understand more.

3. The anonymous people. I know this feels like a cop out but it’s true. That’s part of the reason why the anonymity of all the main characters of Dunkirk had struck me so much that that movie has honestly stolen my soul. History, while led by larger-than-life figures, is only made possible by the nameless people who no history book will commemorate. I was reading the book The Story of Christianity by Justo González and one of the points he made was that often well-known and martyred saints are credited with the growth of the early church immediately following Jesus being taken up to heaven, but in actuality the spread of the church was made possible by the peasants, the slaves, the sojourners who took their testimonies and that of Jesus and shared it with their neighbours or companions out in the field or in the market or by candlelight after a long day, who in turn shared it to others, and to others...and they don’t have names or official canonization (that I know of) or et cetera, but they changed the world. Also this statue (?) sums it up as well: 

“For all the women who were silent and built history” rough translation based on my high school Spanish lmao. 

But it’s true. And all the historical moments that really affect me are built on those who were anonymous. 

5. A surprising contender not from the twentieth century is Irish pirate queen Grace O’Malley. Credits to my university friend for introducing me to her. Listen, you imagine if Hollywood ever have the guts to have a scene in a film where an Irish pirate queen from the 1500s was so formidable and powerful and caused such a ruckus that Queen Elizabeth invited her to court so that these two incredibly intimidating 50something year old women met face to face to strike a deal and you tell me that isn’t badass. They had to talk entirely in Latin because neither of them spoke the other’s language (Irish/English). LATIN. (Unfortunately, the results of the meeting were eventually moot, because Britain being Britain were like mehhhh we don’t need to live up to our part of the agreement, so Grace went back on her merry pirate way)

That being said, anyone out there PLEASE shoot any cool historical figures whose story has stuck to you my way!! I’d love to know!! 

#veliseraptor #asks #ask #this...this was a delightful question #but srsly friends #let me know some new historical figures

[nippon-com]

#biography #Japanese writer

[janiedean]

do you have any book recs for world war fiction because they almost always break my heart and i'm in the mood for that xD

OKAY SO LET’S HAVE MY TIME TO SHINE forgive me if I also do vietnam fiction but me and the vietnam war have a long story

slaughterhouse five, kurt vonnegut: CLASSIC OF CLASSICS OF WWII FICTION READ IT PLS

mother night, kurt vonnegut: not as Classic Of Classics as SF but an excellent read nonetheless which also provides Very Interesting Food For Thought especially in this era of calling everything nazi even if it’s not necessarily so

catch 22, joseph heller: best satire of WWII you’ll ever read

flags of our fathers, james bradley: everything you wanna know about the battle of iwo jima from the american side (it’s nonfiction but it’s written with a lot of feeling and it reads like a novel half of the time)

letters from iwo jima, kumiko kakehashi: everything you wanna know about iwo jima from the japanese side. bradley’s book is technically better written and it’s a bit ripetitive (or so the translation made it) but it’s very very good and the aforementioned letters will break your heart a+++ would recommend

dispatches, michael herr: everything you want to know about the vietnam war, it’s a reportage but written in a very... novel-ized way just trust me it’s worth it

if I die in a combat zone & the things they carried, tim o’ brien: EVEN MORE AMAZING VIETNAM BOOKS the guy was a vet and he writes of his own experience but it’s very well-written and both are heartbreaking go for it

the winter war, eloise engle and lauri paananen: excellently written reportage about the finnish/russian winter war which is nonfiction but was extremely well-done and researched and shines a lot of light on a part of wwii people don’t usually know much about so a+++ would recommend

johnny got his gun, dalton trumbo: you wanna cry? READ IT. IT’S THE BEST AND THE WORST AT THE SAME TIME. I DON’T THINK I EVER RAN INTO A MORE HEARTBREAKING THING IN MY ENTIRE LIFE WHEN IT COMES TO WAR FICTION

all quiet on the western front, erich maria remarque: the WWI classic

(spoilers: in theory hemingway is also a good technical choice but I have a long-unresolved issue with the man which prevents me from finishing any book of his but that said for whom the bell tolls and a farewell to arms should also be v. good so while I’ve never finished the latter and I hate the former - because we did it in school badly and that killed my interest in hemingway - you probably might wanna try them out)

the naked and the dead, normal mailer: MOAR CLASSIC WWII SHIT GO TRY IT OUT

these are my faves hopefully something might interest you here :D that said if you wanna cry go for o’ brien/herr/vonnegut/trumbo, that poker is a guaranteed result

#book recs #Anonymous #ask post

[janiedean]

Thoughts?: vitrifyinghearts(.)tumblr(.)com/post/162565718658

30% right (mostly re the OP but with reservations), 70% wrong.

as in, I agree that american propaganda is THAT good even if... I mean, outside the US we, like, do see american war crimes for what they are so idk it’s valid for US people I guess not necessarily for us even if a lot of people still think the US can do no wrong, but when it comes to japan and the atomic bomb..... hahahahahah nope. I mean, sorry but a) it’s not that easy, b) actually yes the japanese were not gonna surrender and the alternative would have been worse. I can’t go at it myself now but let me pls refer you to these excellent posts on the topic, the first of which has laid down for you the entire alternative plan to the hiroshima/nagasaki bombing:

http://janiedean.tumblr.com/post/139985979238/putmeincoach-killerisdad-bae-10-warthog here with sources

plus http://janiedean.tumblr.com/post/147050043533/stirringwind-dilettante-perpetuel this other one makes excellent points

also, american propaganda my ass. I mean, dunno if anyone of them read so sad to fall in battle by kumiko kakehashi (http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/89408/so-sad-to-fall-in-battle-by-kumiko-kakehashi/9780891419174/) who is, like, japanese, so american propaganda shouldn’t fall into that, and is based around letters that japanese soldiers sent from iwo jima (again, japanese), but if they had they’d know that in no fucking way shape or form were the japanese gonna surrender the way they think they would.

it’s. not. american. propaganda. and while I absolutely loathe american propaganda in any way shape or form I’d really like it if people went after real american propaganda (like idk EVERYTHING ABOUT THE US INTERVENTIONS IN THROWING DOWN GOVERNMENTS IN SOUTH AMERICA OR ANYWHERE ELSE) (or idk some people on tumblr should learn that in vietnam you didn’t go voluntarily) (or that people in the US enlist to go to college which is imo a thing that should be really fucking addressed by any srs sj movement) rather than the atomic bombs in japan which are not a question of propaganda and it’d take reading a few history books to learn that. *shrug*

#janie rants #can tumblr shut up abt worldwartwo in general #Anonymous #ask post