AV_CTE_004D_1986_01

1h 2m 57.0s

Yone Noguchi’s literary reputation in Japan and America - Allen Ginsberg - recognition of California modernists poets - Michael McClure. Ikuko Atsumi - book on Yone Noguchi. Art critics - Dore Ashton - exhibitions in Japan - site specificity - Garden for Readers Digest Building. [Discussions in Japanese] Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, New York. Recollecting childhood memories (Mrs. Araki?) - college memories - classes with Raymond Weaver. Leonie Gilmour as a teacher in Japan - Leonie’s pupils. Tomiji Noguchi - Michio Noguchi - relationship with Noguchi’s half-brothers. Noguchi’s early years in America - Dr. Samuel Mack - Swedenborg - revolutions and the Christian churches - zazen - American Zen Buddhism - Beat Poets - Gary Snyder - Allen Ginsberg. Living in Kamakura - Sogen Asahina - Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki - John Cage. Influence of Zen on American intellectuals - Noguchi’s trip to Japan in 1931 and 1950 - introduction to Saburo Hasegawa. Hasegawa’s influence on Franz Kline - association with Alan Watts. Impact of Noguchi’s visit to postwar Japan - Noguchi’s introduction to tea ceremonies, zazen via Hasegawa. Discussion of religion - Noguchi’s agnosticism. Isamu Noguchi’s grandparents - Andrew Gilmour - Albiana Smith. Christmas with the family of Paul Jacoulet in Japan - ukiyo-e. Meeting Noguchi’s aunt Florence Gilmour in California. Discussion of 1946 interview about the armistice - Yone Noguchi’s regret about the course of the war. Memories of 1931 - rise of the Japanese military - Nikatens Arts Exhibition - returning home to a studio on 33 MacDougal Alley. Toshio Hara - Hara Museum of Contemporary Art. Nitobe Inazo - Mary P.E. Nitobe - Yoshio Nitobe - encountering Charles Lindbergh - Upton Close announcing the start of World War II in Japan in 1941. Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion house on the front page of Japan Times through friendship with Yoshio Nitobe - 4d Timelock - US customs refused Noguchi entering with Buckminster Fuller book - accused of bringing in Communist literature.

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