The present installment of this series introducing letters and documents in Japanese and/or related to Japan left after Bronisław Piłsudski and preserved in the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Polish Academy of Sciences in Cracow includes a corrected version of the transliteration in Roman characters (Hepburn system) of the texts of four documents (two letters from the pianist Itoe Tachibana addressed to Bronisław Piłsudski, a Polish political prisoner and katorga convict renowned for his outstanding studies and collected materials related to the languages and cultures of the aboriginal population of Sakhalin, Lower Amur Region and Northern Japan (Nivhgu~Gilyak, Uilta~Orok, Ulcha~Mangun, Nanai~Gold, but above all Ainu), and two travel documents issued to Piłsudski by the Consulate of Japan in Korsakov) introduced to the (primarily) Polish public in installments 1 (2007) and [2] (2008), respectively (cf. footnotes 1 and 2). Since minor amendments of minor importance have also been made in the transcript of the original calligraphy of Tachibana’s letters, the corrected transcripts have been printed anew.

The present installment of this series introducing letters and documents in Japanese and/or related to Japan left after Bronisław Piłsudski and preserved in the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Polish Academy of Sciences in Cracow includes a corrected version of the transliteration in Roman characters (Hepburn system) of the texts of four documents (two letters from the pianist Itoe Tachibana addressed to Bronisław Piłsudski, a Polish political prisoner and katorga convict renowned for his outstanding studies and collected materials related to the languages and cultures of the aboriginal population of Sakhalin, Lower Amur Region and Northern Japan (Nivhgu~Gilyak, Uilta~Orok, Ulcha~Mangun, Nanai~Gold, but above all Ainu), and two travel documents issued to Piłsudski by the Consulate of Japan in Korsakov) introduced to the (primarily) Polish public in installments 1 (2007) and [2] (2008), respectively (cf. footnotes 1 and 2). Since minor amendments of minor importance have also been made in the transcript of the original calligraphy of Tachibana’s letters, the corrected transcripts have been printed anew.