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

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

Okada Mariko (actress), 427

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

Sekiguchi Naoto (Jimmy; dancer), 40

Seyrig, Delphine (actress), 181

Sharkey, James (ambassador), 328

Shaw, Stephen (editor), 380, 381, 460, 481

Sheridan, Alan (author), 440

Shibata Hayato (film executive), 261

Shibuya Yasuko (film editor), 155–58

Shiga Naoya (author), 214, 422

Shimizu Hiroshi (film director), 428

Shimura Takeshi (actor), 32

Shindo Kaneto (film director), 180

Shinoda Masahiro (film director), 162, 259, 367

Shinoyama Kishin (photographer), 266, 289

Shiraga Kazuo (artist), 314

Shirai Maki (friend of Herbert Passin), 419

Shiraishi Kazuko (poet), 306, 367, 368

Signoret, Simone (actress), 192

Silbermann, Serge (film producer), 307

Silva, Arturo (author), 233, 396, 443

Silvestre, Jean (executive), 298

Sitwell, Edith (poet), 83, 463

Sitwell, Sacheverell (author), 82–84

Sono Shion (film director), 375

Sontag, Susan (author), 214, 234, 267, 315, 339–40, 446–47

Spender, Stephen (poet), 92–101, 345, 424

Stamous, Perikles (paratrooper), 144

Stevens, George (film director), 152

Stevens, John (author), 419

Stevens, Norma (academic), 233

Stokowski, Leopold (conductor), 147, 228, 263

Storry, Richard (historian), 183–84

Stravinsky, Igor (composer), 104–7

Stravinsky, Vera (painter, wife of Igor), 104, 106

Sullivan, Ed (radio personality), 85

Suzuki Daisetz (Zen philosopher), 14–16, 153, 192, 477

Suzuki Tsunetoshi (politician), 298

Szarkowski, John (curator), 233

Tada Minoru (commentator), 388

Taisho (Emperor), 42

Takahashi Aki (pianist), 228, 329

Takamatsu (Prince and Princess), 33

Takamine Hideko (actress), 182–83, 307, 310, 427, 428

Takamori Saigo (politician), 9, 150–51, 320, 478

Takano Etsuko (film executive), 313, 315

Takaoki Harumi (friend of Vaslav Nijinsky), 85–87

Takemi Taro (medical doctor), 183

Takemitsu Toru (composer), 134, 159, 172, 193, 228, 255, 263, 264, 306, 316, 329, 356, 367, 398, 474, 480

Tanaka Haruo (actor), 259

Tanaka Kinuyo (actress), 31

Tanami Tatsuya (executive), 411

Tani Hiroaki (construction executive), 62–71, 113–19, 140, 159, 278, 317, 332, 334, 354, 422–23, 430, 437, 480

Tanizaki Junichiro (novelist), 216

Terayama Shuji (playwright/poet), 257

Terry, Charles (translator), 435

Teshigahara Hiroshi (film director), 194, 216, 223, 228, 236, 329, 356

Teshigahara Sofu (head of ikebana school), 192

Tessier, Max (film scholar), 427

Thomas, Dylan (poet), 215, 383

Thwaite, Anthony (poet), 238

Tircuit, Heuwell (composer), 125, 133

Toda Natsuko (film title editor), 341

Tokunaga Osamu (friend of Stephen Spender), 95, 96, 345

Tomita Takashi (psychologist), 393

Tomiyama Katsue (film archivist), 259, 341, 413, 459

Toscanini, Arturo (conductor), 263–64

Tsutsumi Seiji (executive), 246

Uchida Tomu (film director), 428

Updike, John (author), 458

van Wolferen, Karel (author), 247, 324, 328, 342, 380–81, 387, 389, 395, 401, 414, 415, 429, 440, 460, 477

Varese, Edgar (composer), 263

Vertov, Dziga (film director), 107

Wagner, Richard (composer), 149, 181

Wakamatsu Koji (film director), 259, 379

Wakao Ayako (actress), 293, 329

Waley, Paul (author), 471

Wang, Wayne (film director), 341

Watanabe Isamu (construction worker), 39

Watanabe Miyako (stage historian), 127, 137

Waters, Alice (resturateur), 239

Watson, Burton (scholar/translator), 237, 435

Weatherby, Meredith (publisher), 33, 50, 51, 52, 146, 150–51, 168, 205, 318, 411, 435, 438, 483

Webb, Herschel (scholar), 19, 22–25, 192, 346, 435

Weill, Kurt (composer). 238

Weissmuller, Johnny (actor), 475

Wenders, Wim (film director), 294

Wilkes, Edmund (critic), 138, 160

Wilson, Angus (author), 92–93, 95, 96, 97

Wilson, Jerry (photographer), 186, 289

Wilson, Robert (stage director), 180–81

Wolfe, Tom (author), 241–42, 267

Yamaguchi Yoshiko (Shirley; actress), 303, 306

Yamamoto Fujiko (actress), 259

Yamamoto Kikuo (film scholar), 320

Yamamoto Satsuo (film director), 180

Yamazaki Tsutomu (actor), 228

Yanagi Yukinori (artist), 344

Yanagimachi Mitsuo (film director), 235, 261, 367

Yassar, Karim (student), 433

Yasuda Hisako (lawyer), 328

Yato Tamotsu (photographer), 124, 146, 148, 318, 438, 448

Yodogawa Nagaharu (film critic), 235, 244, 261, 303, 307, 426

Yokoo Tadanori (artist), 288, 289, 294, 320

Yoshida Kiju (film director), 472

Yoshihara Akira (friend), 240

Yoshikawa Eiji (writer), 292

Yoshimoto Mitsuro (film historian), 472

Young, Timothy (astrophysicist), 367, 381, 423

Yourcenar, Marguerite (author), 185, 189–92, 216, 237, 261, 305

Zushiden Tsukasa (automotive executive), 121–22, 129, 131, 145, 159, 169, 222, 364, 366