EPISODE 38: Naoe Kinoshita, "Pillar of Fire" (1904), Part Three
Description
Chapters 17-20: 0:00 —Girls’ school. 6:37 —Byron’s character. 9:57 —Shinoda’s sermon. 12:17 —Workers’ meeting. 19:26 —Interlude.
Chapters 21-23: 20:21 —Umeko eyes Matsushima. 28:00 —General Aritomo Yamagata. 30:41 —Shutting down Shinoda. 31:27 —Why war? 37:10 —Imperialism. 44:09 —Interlude.
Chapters 24-30: 45:05 —Shinoda in Chichibu. 52:18 —Comrade Azuma. 55:15 —Society strikes back. 1:03:18 —Political posturing. 1:06:30 —Closing.
Text: Kinoshita, Naoe. Pillar of Fire. Translated by Kenneth Strong. London: George Allen & Unwin. 1972.
Interlude: Ensemble Nipponia, "Edo No Uta", performed by Minoru Miki and Ayako Handa, Soloists of the Ensemble Nipponia (1976, Nonesuch Records, H-72072, Internet Archive).
Illustration: Naoe Kinoshita, 1937 (Wikipedia).
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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