{"id":19432,"date":"2013-02-21T09:01:14","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T14:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/?p=19432"},"modified":"2014-05-21T10:20:24","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T14:20:24","slug":"donald-richie-1924-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/19432","title":{"rendered":"Donald Richie 1924-2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Richie died last <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/02\/20\/world\/asia\/donald-richie-american-expert-on-japan-is-dead-at-88.html?_r=0\">Tuesday<\/a>. I was already planning to go to the Music Hall Tuesday night for their presentation of Ran; it seemed an excellent way to honor Mr. Richie&#8217;s memory, and so I raised a glass to him on my way to the theater. I learned of Mr. Richie&#8217;s work very recently &#8211; at a dinner at a brilliant friend&#8217;s place, I started talking Kurosawa with another brilliant friend (I&#8217;d just watched The Seven Samurai again and was full of enthusiasm). She pointed me at Richie&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0520220374\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0520220374&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=hawkdog-20\">book on the director<\/a> as well as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0571199828\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0571199828&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=hawkdog-20\">bio of Kurosawa and Mifune<\/a> by Stuart Galbraith IV and a fantastic novel, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0014JOL1A\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B0014JOL1A&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=hawkdog-20\">The Last Samurai<\/a>, that uses The Seven Samurai as both an element in the characters lives and as an organizing theme.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A 2009 Donald Richie interview (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com\/2013\/02\/donald-richie-1924-2013\">LGM<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/fora.tv\/embed?id=9273&amp;type=c\" width=\"400\" height=\"260\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And as long as we&#8217;re on the topic, locals &#8211; the Currier Museum has a special exhibit up at the moment: <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/tW76wHE7sk0\">Lethal Beauty: Samurai Weapons and Armor<\/a>. I&#8217;ll report on the show in a couple weeks &#8211; a trip to view is scheduled w\/ brilliant friend the first.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Lethal-Beauty.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19433\" src=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Lethal-Beauty.gif\" alt=\"Lethal Beauty\" width=\"720\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Richie died last Tuesday. I was already planning to go to the Music Hall Tuesday night for their presentation of Ran; it seemed an excellent way to honor Mr. Richie&#8217;s memory, and so I raised a glass to him &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/19432\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdqxx-53q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19432"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19524,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19432\/revisions\/19524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}