M. Japan Journals, 1947-96, earlier incomplete version, computerized print-out, manila envelope.
N. Japan Journals, 1947–2004, the complete edited journals, some 1,000 pages.
O. There is also a pseudo-journal, a “novel” called Seventh Voyage, written 1945–46, paper binder, typewritten. There was another journal-novel called Fifth Voyage, which appears to be lost.
Memoir Fragments
Though there are a number of attempts at a memoir, none are completed. These fragments are also now in the Donald Richie Archives, Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, Boston University.
A. Family History
B. First Memoirs
C. In-Between
D. Sections of a Child
E. Watching Myself
Index of Names
Includes names of principal people mentioned, as well as historical and literary figures commented upon.
Abe Kobo (author), 301
Abe Sada (bar proprietor), 51, 302
Adachi Masao (filmmaker/activist), 379
Akai Hidekazu (boxer/actor), 266
Akihito (Emperor), 350, 432, 448
Akira (barboy), 174–75
Akiyama Kuniharu (music critic), 228, 329, 356
Albee, Edward (playwright), 370
Amuro Namie (pop singer), 391
Antonioni, Michelangelo (film director), 168
Aochi Chuzo (filmmaker), 439
Aoshima Yukio (politician), 362
Araki Nobuyoshi (photographer), 339
Aratama Michio (actress), 162
Armacost, Michael (ambassador), 306
Arnheim, Rudolf (aesthetician), 107–9
Asahara Shoko (cult leader), 335, 337, 354, 470
Asakura Setsu (stage designer), 228
Asami Tadashi (tattooed man), 164, 165
Ashbery, John (poet), 218
Atsuta Yushin (cameraman), 293–94
Avedon, Richard (photographer), 233–34
Baker, Richard (Zen roshi), 163
Bando Tamasaburo (Kabuki actor), 216, 285–86, 287, 307
Barber, Stephen (author), 417
Barnes, Djuna (author), 19
Barrington, Robin (attaché), 286
Beaton, Cecil (photographer/designer), 79
Biscardi, Chester (composer), 267
Blasdel, Christopher (musician), 356, 360, 403, 443, 474, 481, 482
Blyth, R.H. (scholar/translator), 17–18
Booth, Alan (writer), 294, 459–60
Bowles, Paul (author/composer), 329
Brautigan, Richard (author), 193, 195
Bresson, Robert (film director), 168, 197, 238, 256, 281, 304, 335–36
Brown, Alan (writer/film director), 341
Brown, Holloway (academic), 24, 36, 124, 279, 295, 299, 300, 305–6, 311, 317, 420, 435
Brown, Richard (advertising executive), 75, 127, 138, 140
Burch, Noël (film scholar), 259
Buruma, Ian (author/journalist), 159, 164, 167, 250, 315, 324, 339, 342, 353, 420, 435, 444, 458
Capote, Truman (author), 79–82, 476–77
Cardin, Pierre (dress designer), 182
Casement, Roger (reformer/patriot), 290
Chapman, Tom (journalist), 221
Ciano, Octavio (actor), 333
Chishu Ryu (actor), 162, 244, 296, 304
Choi Dae-Yung (soccer coach), 225–27, 240, 253, 255, 279, 297, 306, 327, 330, 357–58, 367, 389, 401, 422, 437–38, 457, 481
Cioran, A. M. (author/philosopher), 458
Cluny, Sheelagh (film critic), 160, 161, 206, 207
Compton-Burnett, Ivy (author), 160–61, 301
Connolly, Cyril (author), 274
Copland, Aaron (composer), 42, 243, 263–64
Coppola, Carmen (musician), 243, 263–64
Coppola, Francis Ford (film director), 171–74, 176, 193, 197–98, 263, 293
Coppola, Sofia (film director), 263, 264
Craft, Robert (conductor/writer), 85, 104, 105, 125, 174
Dark, John (film producer), 198
Davis, Darrell (film scholar), 270
Dayan, Moshe (military general), 131–32
de Bary, Theodore (academic), 435
Deutsch, Karl (publisher), 146
Dovzhenko, Alexander (film director), 49
Dowd, Nancy (screenwriter), 198
Ebert, Chaz (lawyer), 324
Ebert, Roger (film critic), 324, 325
Enright, Dennis (literary critic), 239
Ernst, Earle (scholar), 168, 226
Escher, M. C (artist), 453
Eto Jun (literary critic), 440, 441
Evans, Mary. See Richie, Mary
Fellini, Federico (film director), 182, 298
Ford, John (film director), 49
Freedman, Alisa (translator), 473
Freer, Carlos (photographer), 389
Friedman, Martin (museum head), 343
Friedman, Mildred (museum curator), 343
Fujieda Kazuo (dentist), 297
Fujikawa Gyo (book illustrator), 157
Furusawa Binbun (film director), 375
Gibson, Mel (actor), 300
Gide, André (author), 37, 158, 195, 292, 448
Gilles, Sarah (journalist), 242
Gordon, Beate Sirota (author), 371
Gosho Heinosuke (film director), 162, 163, 431
Graham, Martha (dancer/choreographer), 243
Grant, Duncan (artist), 257
Greco, Juliet (singer), 37
Green, Henry (author), 301
Greenaway, Peter (film director), 262
Grilli, Marcel (music critic), 260
Grilli, Peter (administrator), 306, 467
Grosser, Maurice (painter), 152
Guilaris, Marcel (film historian), 324
Hagiwara Kenichi (actor), 173
Hanae Mori (dress designer), 255
Hani Goro (writer), 375
Hani Kimiko (wife of Hani Susumu), 413, 414–15, 429
Hani Miho (advertising executive), 429
Hani Susumu (film director), 139, 412, 414–15, 429
Hardwicke, Elizabeth (author), 217
Hardy, Don (artist), 220
Harris, Louis (pollster), 246
Harris, Timothy (academic), 294, 459, 481
Hasegawa Kazuo (actor), 328
Hashima Kunio (coach), 239
Hashimoto Ryutaro (politician), 388
Hashimoto Shinobu (screenwriter), 308
Hasumi Shigehiko (academic), 472
Hayasaka Fumio (composer), 31, 42, 428
Hayashi Kanako (film festival organizer), 298
Haylock, John (author), 257
Hearn, Lafcadio (author), 280, 357, 398, 474
Hepburn, James Curtis (academic), 398
Hibbett, Howard (academic), 412, 415
Hidari Sachiko (actress), 139, 378, 414, 429
Hideki (cook), 255
Hijikata Tatsumi (dancer/choreographer), 315, 375, 468, 478
Hira Mikijiro (actor), 161
Hirohito (Emperor), 212, 434
Hiroyasu Yano (administrator), 67
Hollander, Anne (writer), 288
Hooten, Peter (actor), 333
Hosokawa Morihiro (politician), 329
Hou Hsiao-hsien (film director), 235
Howard, Richard (poet/translator), 288
Howse, John (academic), 346
Hurt, Mary Beth (actress), 202
Ichikawa Kon (film director), 328
Imai Tadashi (film director), 180
Imamura Shohei (film director), 208, 413
Inoue Yasushi (author), 262
Isherwood, Christopher (author), 400, 478, 479
Ishiguro Norio (advertising executive), 355
Ishihara Shintaro (politician), 54, 150
Issey Miyake (fashion designer), 228, 255
Itami Juzo (film director), 207–10, 304, 328, 417
Itami Mansaku (film director), 208
Ito Sadao (farmer), 134
Ito Teiji (aesthetician), 160
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Itsuki Hiroshi (pop singer), 212
Iwasaki Akira (film critic), 179
Iwasaki Kiyoshi (indigent), 28
Iwashita Shima (actress), 367
Izumi Kyoka (author), 216
Jagger, Mick (pop singer), 242
Jameson, Samuel (journalist), 387, 428
Jansen, Marius (historian), 441
Jarmusch, Jim (film director), 252, 253
Johnson, Philip (architect), 87–88
Jones, Eithne (public relations), 380, 381, 387, 398, 417
Kaemmerer, Anne (medical doctor/analyst), 145
Kajima Shozo (poet/artist), 37, 420
Kakeo Yoshio (publisher), 235
Kamata Michio (sound technician), 124
Kamei Fumio (film director), 180
Kamikawa (friend of Eugene Langston), 237
Kanaseki Hisao (academic), 306, 328, 356
Kanaseki Kuniko (wife of Hisao), 306, 328, 399
Kaneko (artist), 312
Kara Juro (playwright), 375
Kase Hideki (politician), 419
Kato Mikio (administrator), 415
Katsu Shintaro (actor), 164, 173–74, 372
Kawabata Yasunari (author), 10–13, 123, 153, 159, 216, 431
Kawakita Kashiko (film executive), 162, 275, 304, 307–10, 312–13, 323
Kawakita Kazuko (film executive), 172, 173, 235, 252, 259, 261, 293, 296–97, 302, 303–4, 309
Kawakita Nagamasa (film executive), 309, 313
Kawarabata Nei (film critic), 261, 341
Kawashima Yuzo (film director), 433
Keene, Donald (academic), 412
Kermani, David (friend of John Ashbery), 218
Kerr, Alex (author), 370, 374
Khill, Marcel (friend of Jean Cocteau), 389
Kimula Mika (musician), 221, 443
Kinoshita Keisuke (film director), 427
Kirkup, James (poet), 239
Kirstein, Fidelma Cadmus (wife of Lincoln Kirstein), 141
Kirstein, Lincoln (entrepreneur), 88–92, 141, 205, 401
Kishida Kyoko (actress), 136, 329, 398
Kitano Takeshi (actor/director), 266, 457–58
Kiyota Kazuaki (soldier), 207
Klestadt, Albert (brother of Eric Klestadt), 277
Klestadt, Eric (metals dealer), 120, 138, 154, 189, 203, 214, 228–29, 250, 260, 265, 275, 277, 466
Kobayashi Masaki (film director), 208
Kobayashi Toshiko (actress), 166, 329, 356
Koga Masaki (film executive), 471
Korn, Chizuko (wife of Frank Korn), 221, 225, 236, 290, 298–99, 311, 404, 444
Korn, Eva (sister of Frank Korn), 236, 300
Korn, Frank (metals dealer), 124–25, 133, 220, 222, 236, 255, 290, 298–99, 311, 444
Korn, Marian (wife of Frank Korn), 106, 107, 124–25, 131–33, 144, 160–61, 222, 256, 257
Koyama Akiko (actress), 379, 438
Kreidner, Nils (student), 404,
Kubelka, Peter (film director), 402
Kurosaki Midori (film director), 378
Kurosawa Akira (film director), 32, 49, 162, 174, 176, 182, 244, 275, 297, 307, 399, 423, 445
Kuroyanagi Tetsuko (actress), 161, 211, 298, 370
Kusakabe Kyushiro (critic), 308
Kusama Yayoi (artist), 314
Kyo Machiko (actress), 293
Langston, Eugene (scholar), 1–9, 19–24, 134, 219, 234, 237, 435
Leibowitz, Annie (photographer), 339
Leithauser, Brad (author), 217
Levy-Matsuoka, Lynn (artist), 159
Lim Chun Sung (construction worker), 254
Losey, Joseph (film director), 178
Lovell, Patrick (graphic designer), 240, 323, 339
Lowell, Robert (poet), 217
Lowitz, Leza (author), 269, 482
Luddy, Tom (producer), 172
Lupton, Catherine (film historian), 417, 428
MacDonald, Jeanette (actress), 21
Magowan, Robin (author), 333
Magowan, Stephen (writer), 333
Magritte, René (artist), 290
Mailer, Norman (author), 196
Mancia, Adrienne (film curator), 424
Masako (Crown Princess), 480
Masudo (friend of Mizushima Fumio), 275
Matsuyama Zenzo (screenwriter/director), 427
Maugham, W. Somerset (author), 101–3
McCarthy, Paul (academic/translator), 257, 268, 355, 365, 386, 454, 466–67, 481
McClellan, Edwin (academic/translator), 421, 440, 441
McClellan, Rachel (wife of Edwin McClellan), 421, 440
McCray, Porter (foundation executive), 315
Mears, Helen (author), 475
Merrill, James (poet), 246, 333
Messiaen, Olivier (composer), 175
Michiko (Empress), 350
Michishita Kyoko (administrator), 367, 368
Mifune Toshiro (actor), 32, 198–99, 275, 297, 349, 399
Miki Tomio (sculptor), 314
Mikuni Rentaro (actor), 228
Miller, William (literary agent), 380, 381
Mishima Yoko (wife of Yukio Mishima), 113, 196, 197, 203, 289
Mishima Yukio (novelist), 46–48, 49, 56, 109–13, 136–37, 147, 148–52, 195, 202, 210, 276, 318, 340, 355, 385
Miyagawa Kazuo (cameraman), 275
Miyagi Mariko (actress/foundation head), 298
Miyazawa Rie (actress), 266, 329
Mizoguchi Kenji (film director), 210, 292–93
Mizuno Fumio (friend of Meredith Weatherby), 411
Mizushima Fumio (actor/playwright), 152, 154–58, 170–71, 174–75, 177–78, 185, 264, 267, 292, 298, 317, 333, 335, 354, 389, 410, 421, 438, 456–57, 472, 473
Mizushima Nobuo (brother of Fumio), 155
Mizushima Ritsuro (brother of Fumio), 155
Mondale, Joan (wife of Walter Mondale), 343, 367, 368
Mondale, Walter (ambassador), 306, 343, 368
Moravia, Alberto (author), 94–98
Moreau, Gustav (artist), 154
Mori Iwao (film producer), 162
Mori Minoru (construction executive), 483
Mori Ogai (author), 54, 371, 419
Morikawa (construction worker), 231–32
Morita Masakatsu (assistant to Mishima), 149–50
Motofuji Akiko, 468
Munroe, Alexandra (museum director), 314
Naderi, Amir (film director), 458–59
Nagai Kafu (author), 214, 341, 434, 470
Nagare Masayuki (sculptor), 28, 470
Nakamura Baigyoku (Kabuki actor), 421
Nakamura Jakuemon (Kabuki actor), 311
Nakamura Kichiemon (Kabuki actor), 421
Nakano Yuji (construction worker), 145
Nakasone Yasuhiro (politician), 389
Nam Jun Paik (artist), 315
Naruse Mikio (film director), 183
Nathan, John (author, translator), 163, 173, 415
Natsume Soseki (author), 348
Nijinsky, Romola (wife of Vaslav Nijinsky), 84–87
Ninagawa Yukio (stage director), 228
Nishiyama Sen (tea master), 428
Nitobe Inazo (philosopher), 28
Nogami Teruyo (film executive), 174, 235, 296–97, 341, 399, 468
Noguchi Hisamitsu (film critic), 162, 309, 314
Noguchi, Isamu (artist), 187, 188, 202
Nozaka Yoshiyuki (author), 260
Numata Makiyo (realtor), 229, 273, 277, 284, 297, 303, 317, 333, 379, 430
Numata Shinsaku (brother of Makiyo), 277
Oba Hideo (film director), 259, 313
Oba Masatoshi (museum head), 235, 413
Obara Tsutomu (tattooed man), 165
Obayashi Nobuhiko (film director), 379
Oda Mayumi (artist), 163, 165, 356, 432–33
Oe Kenzaburo (author), 328, 377, 402
Ohnuki-Tierney, Emiko (anthropologist), 247, 248
Oida Yoshi (actor), 16, 348
Okada Eiji (actor), 126
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Okajima Hisashi (curator), 341, 413
Okamoto Taro (artist), 203
Ono Tadamaro (musician), 33, 34–36, 39, 360
Ooka Makoto (poet), 399
Oshima Nagisa (film director), 163, 172, 244, 259–60, 267, 294, 303, 320, 341, 348, 369–70, 374, 379, 399, 413, 429, 438, 459
Owen, Robert (medical doctor), 325
Ozawa Seiji (conductor), 397
Ozu Yasujiro (film director), 162, 168, 249, 293, 304, 307, 309, 428, 461, 472
Packwood, Robert (politician), 348
Paley, “Babe” (wife of William Paley), 233
Parrish, Maxfield (artist), 272, 337
Partridge, Frances (diarist), 257
Passin, Herbert (scholar), 358
Peacock, Thomas Love (author), 301
Pons, Phillipe (author), 437, 444
Proust, Marcel (author), 365
Pyle, Kenneth (scholar), 248, 301
Rauch, Jonathan (author), 247, 255, 267, 324
Ravel, Maurice (composer), 84, 189
Ray, Satyajit (film director), 307, 309
Raynor, Albert (executive), 35, 354
Rayns, Michael (director), 431
Redon, Odilon (artist), 154
Reischauer, Edwin (ambassador), 188, 428
Reni, Guido (artist), 48
Resnais, Alain (filmmaker), 126
Rhymer, Paul (author), 249
Richie, Mary (author), 108–9, 126, 128, 131, 138, 141–45, 475
Rilke, Rainer Maria (poet), 441
Robert, Hubert (artist), 83
Robinson, Gwen (journalist), 324, 338, 365, 367, 371, 374, 380–81, 385–86, 389, 414, 418, 423
Rogers, Bruce (publisher), 41
Rosevere, Cora (curator), 356
Rossellini, Isabella (actress), 258
Rubinfein, Leo (photographer), 453
Rubinfein, Shulamith (antique dealer), 206–7, 319, 478
Ryu Chishu (actor), 162, 163, 244, 296–97
Saba, Umberto (author), 407
Sada Keiji (actor), 427
Sadoul, Georges (actor), 308
Saisho Fumi (film critic), 49
Saito Isamu (psychologist), 393
Sakamoto Junji (film director), 471
Salgado, Sebastiao (photographer), 322
Sato Hisako (film festival organizer), 180, 308, 313, 366
Sato Tadao (film historian), 180, 308, 313, 366
Sawada Ichiro (Kabuki executive), 277, 355
Sayers, Nigel (teacher), 239
Sayles, Murray (journalist), 224
Schrader, Paul (film director), 196–97 262
Scorsese, Martin (film director), 235, 258
Seidensticker, Edward G. (scholar/translator), 126, 158, 206, 221, 249, 286, 301, 306, 317, 323–24, 339, 342–43, 346, 347, 380–81, 384, 386, 387, 398, 404, 407, 412, 414, 415, 419, 423, 434, 437, 444, 454, 475, 476–77, 481
Seki, Mr. and Mrs. (photo shop owners) 299
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