@article{018e9e3a-b277-7335-9996-d791d783d9c5,
author = {Alfred F. Majewicz},
title = {Japonica in the archives left after Bronisław Piłsudski in the Scientific Library of the PAAS and the PAS in Cracow (10). Motonaga Murao and his Postcard Message},
journal = {The Annual of the Scientific Library of the PAAS and the PAS in Cracow},
volume = {2022},
number = {LXVII (2022)},
year = {2022},
issn = {1642-2503},
pages = {103-110},keywords = {Bronisław Piłsudski; Motonaga Murao; Ainu; Hokkaido; japonica in Cracow},
abstract = {The tenth installment of the series introducing Japanese documents preserved with Bronisław Piłsudski’s archives in the Scientific Library of the PAAS and the PAS in Cracow focuses on a postcard message written in refined cursive script style labeled草書体 sōshotai (not necessarily correctly translated as ‘grass script’) quite difficult to decipher. When deciphered, the message seemed easy to translate but a reconstruction of possible sequence of events proved necessary. The author of the message and the calligraphy was Motonaga Murao, a high-ranking state servant, formerly working in the Hokkaido Development (~ Colonization) Agency (~Commission) and Hokkaido historian, educator, and author of several fundamental publications on the island and its development, works on the Ainu included. The message itself is doubtlessly a response to Piłsudski’s apparent request to meet – again doubtlessly – to exchange the knowledge and experience concerning the people of interest to both: the Ainu. The installment provides also information on Murao and his accomplishments.},
doi = {10.4467/25440500RBN.22.009.17364},
url = {https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/rbn-pau-pan/article/japonica-w-archiwaliach-po-bronislawie-pilsudskim-w-bibliotece-naukowej-pau-i-pan-w-krakowie-10-motonaga-murao-i-jego-kartka-pocztowa}
}