• EPISODE 36: Noae Kinoshita, "Pillar of Fire" (1904), Part One

  • Nov 26 2024
  • Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
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EPISODE 36: Noae Kinoshita, "Pillar of Fire" (1904), Part One

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  • Chapters 1-3: 0:00—January 1904. 2:35—Meiji Japan. 7:49—Marrying Umeko. 9:56: Gozo Yamaki & the Reverend. 13:52—Injury & injustice. 20:20—Women & child labor. 22:27—Waking society. 24:46—Shinoda. 27:55—Prominent Protestants. 30:30—Yamaki & Ohora. 31:44—Interlude.

    Chapters 4-6: 32:08—The zaibatsu. 36:11—Shipbuilding. 38:28—O-Kame & Umeko. 40:17—Church garden party. 43:35—Shinoda & Umeko. 45:25—Politics & manners. 46:35—Socialism & feminism. 50:18—Interlude.

    Chapter 7: 50:44—Rickshaw knowledge. 52:49—People’s Weekly/Heimin Shimbun. 55:15—Japanese socialism. 56:32—A Russian comrade. 1:01:43—Our emperor. 1:04:37—Kotoku Shusui. 1:09:25—The power of the pen. 1:12:06—The greater learning for women. 1:12: 56—Closing.

    Text: Kinoshita, Naoe. Pillar of Fire. Translated by Kenneth Strong. London: George Allen & Unwin. 1972.

    Interlude: "Godan-Kinuta" (Music of Weaving), The Koto Music of Japan (1965, Nonesuch HS-72005), Internet Archive.

    Illustration: Naoe Kinoshita, 1937 (Wikipedia).

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    Contact: jimjneilson@gmail.com

    Thanks to Professor David Ambaras and the students of HIS 573: Japan's Empire in Asia, 1868-1945, NCSU, Fall 2024.
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