Emiko Jozuka, African Samurai: The Enduring Legacy of a Black Warrior in Feudal Japan. CNN, May 20, 2019
Graphics by Natalie Leung, CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/19/a ... pan-intl/index.html
Note:
(a) Emiko JOJUKA 定塚 恵美子 (where "e" and "mi" are Chinese pronunciations of 恵 and 美).
(i)
(A) Andrea Lo, Emiko Jozuka, 30; Digital producer, CNN International. The Loop, Sept 28, 2017 ("Top 30 Series": The Loop HK 30 under 30 2017).
https://www.theloophk.com/emiko-jozuka-30/
("Born in Japan, Jozuka moved to the UK at 3 years old and moved to Hong Kong just over a year ago. She started her career in journalism by freelancing as a multimedia journalist at the Hurriyet Daily News & Economic Review in Istanbul, Turkey. 'I met some Kurdish independent filmmakers while I was covering film festivals in southern Turkey and they got me interested in the Kurdish issue,' she explains. After a year in Istanbul, she moved to the predominantly Kurdish region in southeastern Turkey. 'I reported on culture, conflict, migration, the environment, politics and human rights for various publications,' she says. * * * On the side, Jozuka is currently working on archiving and exhibiting works by her father, the legendary motorsport photographer Joe Honda")
(B) "From 2010 to 2012, she lived in Istanbul, Turkey * * * Emiko was born in Japan but educated in the UK. She is fluent in English, French, Spanish and Turkish, and proficient in Japanese.." Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, last updated Oct 23, 2018 for "Emiko Jozuka."
Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitzer_Center_on_Crisis_Reporting
("an American news media organization established in 2006 that sponsors independent reporting on global issues that other media outlets are less willing or able to undertake on their own. * * * based in Washington, DC")
, whose website states, under "About Us": "We award more than $2 million a year in direct support to journalism at a time of financial stress in the news industry, making possible more than 600 stories annually in print, broadcast, and digital news outlets, as well as documentaries, books, and exhibitions. Our projects run in a wide variety of respected national, local, and international news outlets. * * * The Pulitzer Center is not affiliated with Columbia University's Pulitzer Prizes."
Pulitzer Center is a non-profit organization, whose founding director -- and current executive director -- is Jon Sawyer. As far as I can tell, there is no connection between Pulitzer Center and Joseph Pulitzer, whose estate set up Pulitzer Prize.
(ii) The Japanese surname Jōzuka (Jojuka itself is absent in Japan) may be 城塚、定塚、上塚、定司.
(b)
(i) Nobunaga ODA (1534 – 1582 (切腹 durring a coup 本能寺の変 against him when his general 明智 光秀 rebelled, who in turn was filled 13 days later by 豊臣 秀吉, another general of Oda)
(ii) the book: Thomas Lockley and Geoffrey Girard, African Samurai; The true story of Yasuke, a legendary black warrior in feudal Japan. Manhattan: Hanover Square Press, Apr 30, 2019.
Thomas Lockley is a co-author.
(iii) Yasuke 弥助 or 弥介
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuke
(c 1555–1590)
The "ya" and "suke" are both Japanese pronunciations of kanji 弥 and 助/介.
(d) "Oda believed Yasuke to be either a guardian demon or 'Daikokuten,' a god of prosperity usually represented by black statues in temples."
Daikokuten 大黒天
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daikokuten
(is one of the Seven Lucky Gods [七福神])
(i) The "koku" is the Chinese pronunciation of 黒, whose Japanese pronunciation is kuro. See (f)(v) below.
(ii) The ja.wikipedia.org mentions its Sanskrit name ("梵: Mahākāla"), which in facts plays a different role (fierce) in Hinduism, Buddhism and Sikhism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahakala
(section 1 Etymology; section 2 Description: Mahakala is "the spouse of Kali," a goddess)
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