TY - JOUR
TI - 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
AU - Majewicz, Alfred F.
TI - 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
AB - 
	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.
VL - 2022
IS - LXVII (2022)
PY - 2022
SN - 1642-2503
C1 - 2544-0500
SP - 103
EP - 110
DO - 10.4467/25440500RBN.22.009.17364
UR - 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
KW - Bronisław Piłsudski
KW - Motonaga Murao
KW - Ainu
KW - Hokkaido
KW - japonica in Cracow