77 research outputs found
Letter from Eiko Fujii to Fred S. Farr, 1942
No full textLetter from Eiko Fujii to Fred S. Farr written from Jerome incarceration camp, mentioning responses to newspaper articles covering Japanese American incarceration, anti-Japanese racism among white people in Arkansas, the shooting of a Japanese American Soldier by a white man, and food poisoning.The collection contains seven letters to Farr from Japanese American friends from California incarcerated during World War II. Most of the letters are from Eiko Fujii, beginning shortly after her arrival at Santa Anita Assembly Center in 1942, continuing through her transfer to Denson, Ark., at Jerome incarceration camp, and ending after she left the camps and held a teaching position the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. The letters discuss daily life in the camps and her family's physical, psychological, and emotional adjustment to life there; as well as references to Farr's personal and professional life. Also included are photographs collected by Fred S. Farr, depicting Japanese Americans traveling by train and an unidentified incarceration camp
Letter from Eiko Fujii to Fred S. Farr, June 15, 1942
No full textLetter from Eiko Fujii to Fred S. Farr written from Santa Anita Assembly Center, describing arrival and adjustment to life inside the camp. Fujii mentions washing, typhoid shots, children, meals, church services, work.The collection contains seven letters to Farr from Japanese American friends from California incarcerated during World War II. Most of the letters are from Eiko Fujii, beginning shortly after her arrival at Santa Anita Assembly Center in 1942, continuing through her transfer to Denson, Ark., at Jerome incarceration camp, and ending after she left the camps and held a teaching position the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. The letters discuss daily life in the camps and her family's physical, psychological, and emotional adjustment to life there; as well as references to Farr's personal and professional life. Also included are photographs collected by Fred S. Farr, depicting Japanese Americans traveling by train and an unidentified incarceration camp
Letter from Eiko Fujii to Fred S. Farr, February 16, 1943
No full textLetter from Eiko Fujii to Fred S. Farr written from Jerome incarceration camp, referencing a separate letter (chs_685_008) which Fujii says she had hesitated to send.The collection contains seven letters to Farr from Japanese American friends from California incarcerated during World War II. Most of the letters are from Eiko Fujii, beginning shortly after her arrival at Santa Anita Assembly Center in 1942, continuing through her transfer to Denson, Ark., at Jerome incarceration camp, and ending after she left the camps and held a teaching position the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. The letters discuss daily life in the camps and her family's physical, psychological, and emotional adjustment to life there; as well as references to Farr's personal and professional life. Also included are photographs collected by Fred S. Farr, depicting Japanese Americans traveling by train and an unidentified incarceration camp
Letter from Eiko Fujii to Fred S. Farr, September 4, 1943
No full textLetter from Eiko Fujii to Fred S. Farr, written three months after moving to Ann Arbor Michigan. Fujii writes about her job at the University of Michigan, the lack of night life and vice in Ann Arbor, the cost of housing that prevents her from moving her parents from Jerome Incarceration Camp, and the value she places on her own freedom.The collection contains seven letters to Farr from Japanese American friends from California incarcerated during World War II. Most of the letters are from Eiko Fujii, beginning shortly after her arrival at Santa Anita Assembly Center in 1942, continuing through her transfer to Denson, Ark., at Jerome incarceration camp, and ending after she left the camps and held a teaching position the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. The letters discuss daily life in the camps and her family's physical, psychological, and emotional adjustment to life there; as well as references to Farr's personal and professional life. Also included are photographs collected by Fred S. Farr, depicting Japanese Americans traveling by train and an unidentified incarceration camp
Letter from Eiko Fujii to Fred S. Farr, August 24, 1942
No full textLetter from Eiko Fujii to Fred S. Farr written from Santa Anita Assembly Center, describing life inside the camp. Fujii mentions Farr's recent promotion, voting rights, housing in the stables and barracks, illness caused by living in stables, children, food, work and pay. She writes about poor media coverage of a "disturbance," and a camouflage strike.The collection contains seven letters to Farr from Japanese American friends from California incarcerated during World War II. Most of the letters are from Eiko Fujii, beginning shortly after her arrival at Santa Anita Assembly Center in 1942, continuing through her transfer to Denson, Ark., at Jerome incarceration camp, and ending after she left the camps and held a teaching position the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. The letters discuss daily life in the camps and her family's physical, psychological, and emotional adjustment to life there; as well as references to Farr's personal and professional life. Also included are photographs collected by Fred S. Farr, depicting Japanese Americans traveling by train and an unidentified incarceration camp
Letter from Eiko Fujii to Fred S. Farr, November 16, 1942
No full textLetter from Eiko Fujii to Fred S. Farr written from Jerome incarceration camp, describing transfer from Santa Anita Assembly Center to Jerome. Fujii writes about racism among whites in Arkansas, incomplete construction in the camp, and ordering furniture from Sears and Montgomery Ward. She writes about the lack of fresh vegetables and fruits, and sends updates about friends and family, some of whom were transferred to Jerome from Santa Anita, and some to other camps.The collection contains seven letters to Farr from Japanese American friends from California incarcerated during World War II. Most of the letters are from Eiko Fujii, beginning shortly after her arrival at Santa Anita Assembly Center in 1942, continuing through her transfer to Denson, Ark., at Jerome incarceration camp, and ending after she left the camps and held a teaching position the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. The letters discuss daily life in the camps and her family's physical, psychological, and emotional adjustment to life there; as well as references to Farr's personal and professional life. Also included are photographs collected by Fred S. Farr, depicting Japanese Americans traveling by train and an unidentified incarceration camp
Letter from Eiko Fujii to Fred S. Farr, February 3, 1943
No full textLetter from Eiko Fujii to Fred S. Farr written from Jerome incarceration camp, responding to questions from an earlier letter from Farr. Fujii discusses Issei and Nisei national allegiance, the quality of education at Jerome, the U.S. military's establishment of an all-Nisei combat troop, and discriminatory restrictions on work, travel, and residence options for Japanese Americans.The collection contains seven letters to Farr from Japanese American friends from California incarcerated during World War II. Most of the letters are from Eiko Fujii, beginning shortly after her arrival at Santa Anita Assembly Center in 1942, continuing through her transfer to Denson, Ark., at Jerome incarceration camp, and ending after she left the camps and held a teaching position the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. The letters discuss daily life in the camps and her family's physical, psychological, and emotional adjustment to life there; as well as references to Farr's personal and professional life. Also included are photographs collected by Fred S. Farr, depicting Japanese Americans traveling by train and an unidentified incarceration camp
Contested boundaries of personhood: the moral status of the fetus and infant in late Tokugawa Japan
No full textThis dissertation examines the competing notions of personhood in the late Tokugawa era in Japan (from the mid-eighteenth to the late nineteenth centuries), by investigating conceptualizations of the beginning of life articulated and negotiated by different stakeholders in society. During this period, the concept of personhood was disputed, with increasing numbers of poor families performing abortions and infanticide, while moral entrepreneurs vehemently condemned such practices. Further, doctors in nascent obstetrics developed technologies to save the lives of the fetus and infants, contributing to the idea that the fetus and infant were persons worthy of protection. To decipher changing notions of the beginning of life, this work examines the manners in which the fetus and infants were included in the categories of patients in medical practices, victims in anti-abortion and infanticide discourses, and children in parents’ point of view. Drawing on textual analysis of materials including Confucian, obstetrical, and legal texts, as well as the analysis of archeological data, this study identifies and analyzes divergent perspectives on the genesis of life, and personal, political, and ethical motivations behind such claims.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Eiko Saek
Infanzia e guerra: Kadono Eiko
No full textL’articolo fa una panoramica della letteratura giapponese per l’infanzia legata alla Seconda Guerra Mondiale, presentando i vari filoni in cui la produzione viene suddivisa dagli studiosi che parlano di sensō jidōbungaku, letteratura di guerra per l’infanzia, termine usato a proposito delle opere pacifiste e contro la guerra, includendo tematiche come i bombardamenti aerei, in particolare quelli su Tokyo nel marzo del 1945, lo sfollamento dei bambini, la vita nei territori stranieri occupati dai giapponesi, l’assalto a Okinawa e la convivenza con le forze alleate e, naturalmente, la bomba atomica che, lasciata in disparte subito dopo la sconfitta per problemi di censura, (Hasegawa, 2017, 20) appare poi in modo significativo negli anni successivi senza determinare però un filone a se stante come accade nella produzione per adulti.
Lo studio si concentra quindi su Kadono Eiko (1935-), pluripremiata scrittrice per l’infanzia, vincitrice dell’Hans Christian Andersen Author Award (2018), nota al grande pubblico per il romanzo Majo no takkyūbin (Kiki consegne a domicilio, 1985) di cui la trasposizione cinematografica è uscita nel 1989 a opera di Miyazaki Hayao (1941-). In particolare viene preso in considerazione il romanzo Tonneru no mori 1945 (Il tunnel attraverso la foresta 1945, 2015), mai tradotto all’estero, basato sull’esperienza di Kadono nel periodo della guerra, allo scopo di comprendere cosa l’abbia spinta a scrivere su questo tema allontanandosi dalle storie allegre e fantastiche che avevano caratterizzato la maggior parte della sua produzione.
L’analisi dell’opera mostra gli aspetti legati alla tradizione giapponese sottolineando il rapporto speciale con la natura ricordata spesso dall’autrice. Inoltre ne vengono evidenziati la posizione e il valore all’interno della produzione di sensō jidōbungaku rifiorita in anni recenti dopo il triplice disastro del Tohoku del 2011, in risposta alle scelte politiche e alla paura dell’oblio dei fatti accaduti. Consapevole della potenzialità della letteratura di trasmettere la memoria degli avvenimenti passati con più forza rispetto ai libri di storia e quindi di avere il dovere di farlo nei confronti delle generazioni future. Kadono rientra fra gli autori in età avanzata che, da testimoni, si sentono in dovere di raccontare della propria esperienza, perché non si ripeta nuovamente quello che è successo ad altri bambini
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