Moss and ivy covered tomb at Zoshigaya cemetery, Toshima-ku, Tokyo
Graveside Chats: Kate Wildman Nakai on Zoshigaya Cemetery (13.4 MB MP3)
Kate Wildman Nakai tells Jonathan Wilder about some of the graves in Zoshigaya cemetery. They make brief stops at the graves of the famous, like Lafcadio Hearn and Tojo, and the not so famous graves that are under threat of removal.
Links
- Listing of Foreigner’s graves at Zoshigaya cemetery. (PDF)
- Monumenta Nipponica Homepage
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Foreign Legacy Society (nascent NPO), formed in 2005 to preserve the foreign
section of Aoyama cemetery in Tokyo.
Tomb of William Wright
Example of an “eviction” notice put up in 2003 (taken down in 2004.)
Tomb of Alexander Hare, professor of English for forty years.
Production – Many thanks to Kristen McQuillin for the loan of her recording equipment and MJ Daniels-Sueyasu for putting all the bits together.
Podcast produced by MJD-S.