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
• 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.

Hello, thanks for stopping by. The first podcast in the Graveside Chats series was recorded in late May 2005 in Aoyama Cemetery’s foreign section where some of the famous and many of the not so famous graves are under threat of removal by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government. In an interview with Donatella Failla, Director of Museo d’Arte Orientale E. Chiossone, we learn a bit about the man and his tomb.

Graveside Chats: Edoardo Chissonne (11.5 MB MP3)

• Essay by Donatella Failla about Edoardo Chiossone and the museum in Genoa
  http://www.flemingyouth.it/download/The%20Chiossone%20Museum.doc
• Wikipedia entry on Edoardo Chiossone
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edoardo_Chiossone
• Foreign Legacy Society, formed in 2005 to preserve the foreign
  section of Aoyama cemetery in Tokyo.
  http://foreignlegacy.org

Donatella Failla, Director of Museo d’Arte Orientale E. Chiossone

Music–Aki no Koto no Ha – by Nishiyama Tokumoto, late 19th century Meiji era, as transcribed by Bonnie Wade in her Tegotomono (Greenwood Press, 1976). For two kotos and shakuhachi on the vocal part. (1996)http://members.accessbee.com/jkwasnik/midi/akino.html

Production– Many thanks to Kristen McQuillin and MJ Daniels-Sueyasu for their assistance with recording and post production.

Hanashi Station’s premiere highlights segments of future shows.

• Graveside Chats: Jonathan Wilder is working to save Aoyama Cemetery one grave at a time.
• Considering This: Jim O’Connell describes a childhood denim tragedy.
• Brain Dump: Marshmallow Spike rock out with Stolen Umbrella
• Japanese Kitchen: Kristen McQuillin makes Japanese brine-cured pickles.