厳島くんの Random Thoughts Journal
You Hanaoka 花岡 洋 in Hiroshima prefecture in Japan has started a very interesting blog with a lot of detail on historical Japanese guitarists.
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Contents of the German Magazine: Der Gitarrefreund (1900-31) – Masami Kimura, 2005
Dedicated to Mr. Jiro Nakano (1902-2000) and Mr. Hiroshi Kawai (1904-1987)
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Early Japanese guitar records
I recently acquired a few recordings by Morishige Takei, Shun Ogura and Yoshie Okawara I would like to share.
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The Takei Music Library
Below are translations from the Japan Mandolin Union bulletins in 1990 and 1991 detailing the depositing of the Takei Music Library in the Kunitachi College of Music in Tokyo, Japan. Please see my earlier articles on Morishige Takei, an incomplete listing of the contents while it was held by others, and some additional details I learned from Kunitachi librarians.
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Nakano Collection
Since I originally posted in 2012 about the Nakano Collection (original post below) I have been working to add it to my Archive Search feature. It is finally available! Follow this link to show all items from the collection.
Morishige Takei films
Morishige Takei was a lover of film in addition to the guitar and mandolin. He entered several film competitions, although I don’t currently have much details about his film work other than the films I was allowed to copy from his daughter in 1997. I have uploaded all of them Read more…
The Takei Collection and a Brief History of Morishige Takei
Here is a short history of Morishige Takei that was included in the introduction to a book on Takei’s music published in 1965 by Zen’on Music Publishing Company (with some clarifying edits). (more…)
Regondi guitar in Japan, 1926
I originally wrote in 1997 about the guitars purchased in 1926 by Japanese collectors from Philip Bone, but never shared a copy of the original letter received from Bone listed details on the guitars. I stumbled across my correspondence with Nakano recently and realized he had sent me a copy of the letter. Here it is! (more…)
Takei Collection
This is an incomplete list of compositions in the Morishige Takei collection at the Kunitachi College of Music in Tokyo, Japan. It was compiled by Jiro Nakano. The Takei collection is not publicly accessibly to my knowledge, nor has it been fully catalogued. After Takei’s death it was in the custody of at least one other person during which time portions may have been mixed with other collections. Takei also had a large amount of mandolin music in his possession. I doubt that this list represents the total of his guitar collection. One thing to remember though is that Takei lost nearly all of his collection due to fires caused by the great Kanto earthquake in 1923, though his rebuilt collection mostly survived other fires caused by air raids on Tokyo during World War II.
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D. Kennedy guitar articles & correspondence
This article first appeared on my personal site icoldwell.com in Fall 2004.
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