Japanese Portraits: Pictures of Different People

227 Pages·2006·1.75 MB·English

by  Donald Richie

Japanese Portraits
Other Books by Donald Richie
ON FILM

The Japanese Film: Art and Industry, with Joseph L. Anderson, 1959 Japanese Movies, 1961

The Japanese Movie: An Illustrated History, 1965

The Films of Akira Kurosawa, 1965
Japanese Cinema, 1971

Ozu, 1976

Viewing Film, 1986

Japanese Cinema: An Introduction, 1990 A Hundred Years of Japanese Cinema, 2001
ON JAPAN

This Scorching Earth, 1956

Companions of the Holiday, 1968
The Inland Sea, 1971

A Lateral View, Essays, 1987

Tokyo Nights, 1988

Zen Inklings, 1992

The Honorable Visitors, 1994

Partial Views, Essays, 1995

The Temples of Kyoto, 1995

Lafcadio Hearn's Japan, 1997
Tokyo: A View of the City, 1999

The Memoirs of the Warrior Kumagai, 1999

The Donald Richie Reader (Ed. Arturo Silva) Japanese Literature Reviewed, 2003

The Image Factory, 2003

A View from the Chuo Line: Stories, 2004

Japan Journals (1947-2004) (Ed. Leza Lowitz)
D O N A L D R I C H I E
Japanese Portraits
Pictures of Different People
A series of intensely personal portraits of unforgettable
Japanese characters
T U T T L E P U B L I S H I N G

Tokyo • Rutland, Vermont • Singapore
The original, unexpanded edition of this book was published by Kodansha International in 1987 in

hardcover under the title Different People, and in paperback in 1991 as Geisha, Gangster, Neighbor, Nun.

First Edition, Different People: Pictures of Some Japanese, 1987

Second Edition, Geisha, Gangster, Neighbor, Nun: Scenes from Japanese Lives, 1991

Third Edition, augmented and enlarged, Public People, Private People: Portraits of Some Japanese, 1996

Fourth Edition, Japanese Portraits: Pictures of Different People 2005
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For James Merrill
Contents
Foreword xi
Hajimé Saisho 1
Yasunari Kawabata 5
Shozo Kuroda 9
Yasujiro Ozu 12
Setsuko Hara 15
Fumio Mizushima 19
Tadashi Nakajima 22
Yukio Mishima 29
Sada Abé 33
Eiko Matsuda 36
Kazuko Morinaga 39
Saburo Sasaki 43
Kishio Kitakawa 47
Hiro Obayashi 51
Masako Tanaka 58
Akira Kurosawa 62
Toshiro Mifuné 66
Ruriko Otani 70
Kunio Kubo 74
Minoru Sakai 79
Oharu Kitano 84
Taro Furukaki 88
Toru Takemitsu 91
Mieko Watanabé 94
Sessué Hayakawa 98
Daisetz Suzuki 101
Tadanori Yokoo 106
Tatsumi Hijikata 110
Utaemon Nakamura 114
Tamasaburo Bando 119
Tsutomu Yamazaki 122
Sonoko Suzuki 126
Kikuo Kikuyama 130
Keiko Matsunaga 134
Hidetada Sato 138
Shuji Terayama 148
Isuzu Yamada 151
Kon Ichikawa 156
Sumiré Watanabé 158
Toshio Morikawa 161
Shintaro Katsu 168
Hisako Shiraishi 170
Hiroshi Momma 179
Chishu Ryu 183
Hiroyasu Yano 187
Nagisa Oshima 192
Tetsuko Kuroyanagi 197
Mayumi Oda 201
Toshikatsu Wada 204
Makiyo Numata 209
Koichiro Arai 213
Noboru Tanaka 222
Hanako Watanabé 226
H.I.M. Michiko 230