Japan
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1991.20.14
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Soule, Thayer
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content: Thayer Soule Travel Lecture Films collection
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Film reels (86 minutes, color silent; 3,093 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1976
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Edited film documents travel through Japan. Locales filmed include Tokyo (Imperial Palace; Palace Hotel; Ginza department stores; kabuki theatre; sports including sumo, judo, skating, bowling, and basketball; Buddha of Kamakura; Hakone National Park; Shinkansen; and Tokyo's "bullet trains"); Okitsu; Nagoya; Gifu; Kyoto (Imperial Palace, Nijo Castle, Heian Shrine, Golden Pavilion, and Kiyomizu Temple); Nara (Daibutsu Den, Great Buddha, and Kasuga Shrine); Inland Sea; Lake Chuzenji; and Kegon Falls. Other filming includes children at school, the Nogi family at home, ikebana (flower arranging), making of dolls and lanterns, evening on a barge with fireworks and dancing, cormorant fishing, pachinko parlor, manufacture of silk, screen painting, tea ceremony, bunraku, temple dance, festival, rice transplanting, fishing, and pearl diving.

Supplementary materials: publicity materials, still photographs, sound recording of lecture

Legacy keywords: Historic sites ; Statues Buddhist ; Architecture Japan ; School children ; Flower arrangement ; Fishing Japan ; Silk industry. ; Dance ; Shrines Japan ; Palaces Japan ; Theater Japan ; Waterfalls Japan