%0 Journal Article
%T 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
%A Majewicz, Alfred F.
%J The Annual of the Scientific Library of the PAAS and the PAS in Cracow
%V 2022
%R 10.4467/25440500RBN.22.009.17364
%N LXVII (2022)
%P 103-110
%K Bronisław Piłsudski, Motonaga Murao, Ainu, Hokkaido, japonica in Cracow
%@ 1642-2503
%D 2022
%U 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
%X 
	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.