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EIX FOAL OF BURA 7 RY Ah eg EU Wa Te LT RC HAS RR ARRAY 5 (FE SCH) TE ET SS ERT EC TEA TAA AO itt PEGE HPT AV A AA=AA B AY ke POLE FST wea) ee E ER. matt UYAIb-DyIA RBCRS AR OBA Talking About Japan O&A MAT YO—FLY atl [iA] RBCmS PXAUALQSA Talking About the USA Q&A Bll = (#) RCH Hs, QSA Talking About the World Q&A matt 1 VY—tLY atl (ia) RBCRHCARL Japanese History:1 1 Experts Reflect on the Past "RMABAKSH, [i] RBCS 'AAOH: OSA 100 Tough Questions for Japan ARR 7 (Ee) RBCS AROS Keys to the Japanese Heart and Soul "RNARABR, [ie] RCM "ARON Japan as | see It NHKBRSEMbFOYITb [i] Yu> T = [RR] —IRYUARBRER | Discover Japan: Words, Customs and Concept BASUERAAPA (ii) FAAIESA (ER) =—Y KY RMR Heisei Highs and Lows KA+-U—k [3] Japany DU yeEVTD Views of Japan from the Washington Post Newsroom ROLE |B) 100 Japanese You Should Know mj @ BREFTE 3 FN ® WIE XOX 4sAb eo KLIK fii e SHAR f- RR Ht yy — Published by Kodansha International Ltd., 17-14, Otowa 1-chome, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-8652. 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Tze RITULAIR, RWicBibbhO, FH DBE DERE FILSREO HEC ESAULIS FOREWORD The one hundred Japanese whom we've brought together in this book are “key persons” who have played important roles, at one juncture or another, in Japan’s long history. They are people who moved or shook the periods when they lived, giving birth to new realities. There is, for example, the artist Utamaro, who loved to depict feminine beauty in the ukiyoe style and often dipped his brush to paint pornographic shunga . This materially poor crafts- man had nothing to do with the worlds of politics or economics, yet he stimulated keen sensibilities deep within Japanese hearts, and his work even came to exert a great influence on the greatest of France’s impressionist painters. This is but one example of how our “key persons” very defi- nitely held latent strengths which sooner or later, in the long veins of history, were revealed as something truly admirable and extra- ordinary. Looking over our one-hundred-strong assemblage, we indeed discover many points of profound interest. We find, for example, that compared to persons with august names and worldly “successes,” persons who led unhappy and even tragic lives, like Ishida Mitsunari (who met a particularly ill- starred demise) or Saigo Takamori, killed by gunfire of a govern- ment army, are the more likely to leave large footprints in history. An ironic example is that of Minamoto Yoshitsune, who should in “ordinary” circumstances have been expected to live the DAMA. O72 BVH eMKAACLILZOKD 72D, CHBHHEVO4O RWRO AMMB C Abn, WAFS ODS W7EHORBLRYH)C LUMmt hero t), HRERKTA— KtEhoaTwZndskAtCaA. ELTAIVED, AAOMBIUIF BRIO KEAMD EM, RRECORTEBL OT RADE EAAD PYM SA, FRISBY T [SHEET SARL TSH. DOKRCLEATHS BABHAA BORRIC .7 R RR I[LCb,. HRRACSCELUBHADOCHERSn CWDRRELS., HRADAPORNILTER Cll YE CHMLAHRADIEIZCEASDOEODA,R PAIK SRE HTET AAT TAT ALAOAW BOM. EKICOIOALR5,M FAURHR? T YT HROAZIZEDRIDAFDTA COS VILAR Be RAR. BEEA TAS HALIZAMBTS A, PLL cl! prestigious life of a shogun’s younger brother but was instead hounded by his elder brother up to the point of his untoward death. His memory was, however, upheld in the hearts of the common people, who in Japan are known for their predisposition to side with “the underdog,” and, having enjoyed sympathy and respect as a “hero” unequalled by any other over hundreds of years, he is still today one of the country’s most famed individuals. And here is another point to keep in mind: In Japan’s history there are, curiously enough, few truly evil characaters. The so- called jitsuaki characters in kabuki plays—who are supposed to be inveterate villains—are an exception, but in real history the overwhelming majority of people—even thieves and killers of their fellow man are thought to be “good people” in the innermost depths of their hearts. Neither Tojo Hideki, who led Japan to defeat in war, nor Ito Hirobumi, who is hated by Koreans even today because of his role in the 1910 “annexation” of Korea, can become a true jitsuaku in the eyes of most Japanese. This may reflect something having to do with an “innate Japanese character.” Or does it the fault of the underlying “opti- mism” that is so very hard to extirpate from Japan’s shinto ? What, we may wonder, are likely reactions, on reading about our one hundred “key persons,” of people in Western Europe, or in the various countries of Asia? I can’t help but feel that here we have an important key to reading, and at the same time understanding, Japan’s history. Itasaka Gen ERARMR Ff EREROREGEDSERECEC 16 Hl RMOPDOERLCES Bonkf 18 HARA 20 fT KE 22 HAT 24 SEIKESF =2 6 KEKE 28 BRAS 30 FERRE 32 AHA ARK = 34 7 36 aHile tt 38 T #& 40 =_=sN BRERORABE 42 Bl TRESS, MILTHCS BRR 44 RHE 46 Fixe 48 KAWMKE 50 wYMS 52 HeTLEB 54