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texts and commentaries in other mine outside this blog, I talked about the extreme importance for any study on is carried out shunga and for those who are released to make direct contact with those media that support functions for these images. Although academic research shunga started very recently, most notably in the 1990 (1) , quite often we find some publications based their study on reproduction of these parts, thus avoiding both essential aspects of their physicality and their narrative contexts, such as the fact that these pieces are rarely produced in isolation, but as illustrations of books ( Enpon 艶 本), albums ( kumimono 组 物) or rolls illustrated ( emaki 絵 巻).
However, the great dilemma that we face many of the few that we have dedicated to this object of study, where those collections and how to get access to these parts. This is why I decided to create a new section on the blog to raise awareness of some of the collections of shunga most important (and less important as well) we know today.
Of course, you'll submit those collections in various posts, on the subject include Blog, are only those to which I had Aces or I know. There remain anonymous in many private collections shunga and other institutions that have kept denying their existence.
begin this section with one of the Japanese art collections in major U.S. of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston . In addition to important pieces of Buddhist art, as well as other circuits and periods, which owns the museum through the efforts of Ernest Fenollosa (1853-1980), Kakuze Okakura (1862-1913), and other collectors and key figures Bostonian society in the late nineteenth century (2) , this institution has the collection of ukiyo-e world's largest that is outside of Japan.

Photos: Left, north entrance of the museum, right, photo of Bigelow on a pilgrimage to a Buddhist temple.

With approximately 50.000 pictures, a considerable part of this collection was formed by the physician and art collector William Sturgis Bigelow Japanese (1850-1926). Bigelow began to structure its collection during the time he lived in Japan, late nineteenth century, and his return to Boston donated to the Museum, along with the other parts assembled. One of the conditions imposed was that Bigelow to the Museum his collection of ukiyo-e never be displayed, in order to ensure the preservation of the colors of the prints, which deteriorate rapidly on contact with light, so that only access to them for many years were to specialists and through reproductions that were published in various books and catalogs. Fortunately, some five years ago there were major changes in the staff of the Museum, and several projects were launched, one aimed at digitizing the entire collection of ukiyo-e . This project, led by the new curator of the collection of ukiyo-e , Sarah E. Thompson has so far managed to digitize approximately 80% of all parts, including the Bigelow collection, which first can be seen through the Museum's databases, available via the Web.
As is logical to assume that the collection of ukiyo-e Museum should have shunga. This section of the library, which is mostly made up of illustrated books and prints drawn from some albums, it also comes largely from what Bigelow bought in Japan. Account Puritan policies (3) as well as the lack of previous researchers Museum, all those books shunga remained in boxes along nearly 100 years. It's just from changes in the museum, which I mentioned earlier, for the first time you launch a job cataloging these pieces (which is still in process), which is also considered its future digitization.

Photos: Left, illustration (with parts of pages that are displayed) of Utagawa Kunisada for the book Monmōgawa 文盲 我 话 (1827), right, Kunisada illustration for the book Hyakki yagya 百 鬼 夜行 (1825).

The collection of shunga Museum consists of 50 paintings shunga, 210 titles of picture books, enpon (many of them formed by two or three volumes), and 72 prints drawn from albums (some of which still remain as part of the original game, such as copying Sode no maki 袖 の 巻, Torii Kiyonaga illustrator 鸟 居 清 长 (1752-1815), one of the best preserved I have seen). A considerable number of books are enpon nineteenth century, and that Bigelow has acquired them shortly after they are published, by the conditions imposed on the collection, and have been kept almost a hundred years their conservation status and quality of the colors are really gorgeous. Some of the works of Kuniyoshi and Kunisada I could look there for a few months, appear to have been brought into a time machine directly from Edo. This is a feature highlights of the collection of the Museum shunga, rarely found in what has been preserved to this day. Even the excellent collection of Nichibunken (International Research Center for Japanese Studies) in Kyoto, not compete with some of the copies of the Boston Museum.
Finally, the pictures I'm including here in the post are some photos I could take a tiny part of the collection of shunga the museum, in a very short stay of three days I did in March last . All the examples I've included are books enpon the first half of the nineteenth century Utagawa Kunisada illustrator (who we mentioned in previous post).

Photos: Left, illustration for the book Kunisada Hakataobi musubuga Migot (1829); right to Kunisada illustration Shunjō Gidan 春情 mizuage-cho妓 谈 水 扬 帐 (1836).


NOTES 1. While it is true that the main focus in this regard from those years, there were isolated cases prior to that date, as the text of Tom & Mary Anne Evans, Shunga: The art of love in Japan (Paddington Press, New York, 1975) or in the case of Yoshida Japanese research Teruji 吉田 映 二 (1901-1972), Richard Lane (1936-2002) and, above all, the important work of Yoshikazu Hayashi 林 美 一 (1922-1999).
2. Two excellent recent texts that address the activity of collecting Japanese art in the city of Boston in the late nineteenth century are: Christine ME Guth, Longfellow's Tattoos . Tourism, Collecting, and Japan (University of Washington Press, Seattle, 2004) and Christopher Benfey, The Great Wave. Guilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japan (Random House, New York, 2004).
3. In conversation with the curator of the library, Sarah E. Thompson, I knew that very few people had access to these parts until less than 10 years since the Museum authorities then required that investigators were "serious, married men."

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The sad story of suspense that keeps Deputy Interior Minister.

is the first national majority. After three years of age he learned that his father also an MP, died "in a run." 30 years after he learned the truth: it was shot a dozen shots at the beginning of the dictatorship
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It transformed into the character of the week after the riots in the House of Representatives with Interior Minister Rodrigo Hinzpeter, such a level that is on the line to the secretary of state, first because the senator presented a complaint against this Tuesdays and opposition MPs have threatened to refuse entry to the sittings of the House to the Secretary of State, if not apologize publicly. Another measure

bet MPs (if they Hinzpeter not public apologies Espinoza) is to leave the floor whenever it reaches the minister in the House or make a surprise protest against the interior minister. "We are exposed any minister to use that platform, with an anonymous, false and reviled for parliamentarians, as did Hinzpeter "said a parliamentary DC.

" So we can not ignore this situation, "he adds." reaching the final. At stake is the honor not only of Spinoza, but that's all. So democracy is degraded and perverted politics, "the deputy said indignantly DC already devising action against the stubborn Hinzpeter minister made a tepid apology on Thursday." Excuses to Hinzpeter "headlined the popular Daily News LasUltimas.

Espinoza is not easy to tame, "I called the party president, Fulvio Rossi, to tell me que Hinzpeter me invitaba a tomar un té a La Moneda. Pero no voy a ir mientras no se disculpe públicamente", ha dicho Fidel Espinoza.

Pero en la historia de Espinoza, siempre se ha destacado por enfrentarse a la derecha de manera decidida y sin tapujos. Los increpó por el tema del Transantiago en el 2008 cuando se negaron a aprobar los nuevos recursos; en abril de este año acusó al ministro de Mideplan, Felipe Kast, de intentar realizar una “limpieza étnica” en el Fosis y exigió al presidente Piñera explicar el nombramiento del gobernador de Bío-Bío, José Miguel Stegmeier (que finalmente no asumió por sus vínculos con Colonia Dignidad).

Su historia en la política

The foray into public service was first deputy national majority in the recent parliamentary election, began in 1995 when he worked in the Solidarity and Social Investment (FOSIS) of the X region, until 1998. In the years 1996 to 2000 was devoted to his profession of teacher in the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Lagos.

Later, in the years 1998 to 2000 he was regional secretary for Transport and Telecommunications, Tenth Region. In 2000 to 2001, Head of Administration and Finance Division of the Regional Government, GORE, Tenth Region, and in the years 2001 to 2002 he served as a researcher at the Center for Regional Studies at the University of Los Lagos in Osorno.

While still a college student was a leader at the University of Los Lagos, 1990 to 1994, from 1994 to 1996, was president of the Young Socialists in the province of Llanquihue, then regional president of the same. During the years 2000 to 2002, became president of the Socialist Party provincial Llanquihue.

also headed the campaign of presidential candidate Ricardo Lagos Escobar, District 56 and in December 2001 elected deputy, representing the PS, by the District, Region X, from 2002 to 2006.

In December 2005 he was reelected Member for the same District No. 56, which comprises the districts of Fresia, Frutillar, Llanquihue, Los Muermos, Puerto Octay, Puerto Varas Puyehue, Purranque and Black River. Just as in 2009 where he earned the first national majority of 120 deputies who are in parliament with 51.33 percent.

"I think that much of the percentage of that vote that I placed as the first national majority, is the work I've done in the field, with the social organizations, neighborhood associations, sports clubs, helping them manage resources and projects to benefit their organizations, to also benefit thousands of people in my area, "he says. His

large and dramatic pain

The December 2, 1973, at the beginning of the dictatorship in the sector Frutillar by police personnel and the Air Force, was killed at age 33, Luis Espinoza Villalobos, a member of the Party father of the current Socialist MP, who was only three years old when the incident occurred.

Three decades later, the only certainty that Fidel Espinoza was on the death of his father was the date he died. The only remaining doubt or, at best, suspect. The official noted that when he was transported from Puerto Montt to Valdivia, the truck was attacked near Frutillar for a subversive and their custodians shot in the dark of night. Amid the confusion, said the rough versions, had fallen mortally wounded.

But today is convinced that it was not. Today we know that his father was shot around 5 am that day on the road between Coihuín Pelluco and very far from where he had been told before, by order of an officer who was not present at the scene but gave "specific instructions to kill him" a pack of six police to have them now fully identified.

Not only that, he also knows the names of those who took him out of jail, who transported him and even those who fired the 12 shots that gave him in the chest, including an officer who lives in Puerto Montt, they call the "captain shrapnel."

All thanks to one of the members of the patrol, troubled by conscience, he wanted to fulfill a promise he made to his father hours before his death, and visited him in his office to tell the truth.


with an emotional charge that can barely control, the MP account these facts.

All names received from this informant apprised of Justice to reopen the case. For now, confirms the participation of only one of them, someone always suspected: "A police lieutenant known locally as John Shrapnel now, now retired, lives in a house opposite the 2nd Precinct of Puerto Montt, well protected by his conscience, I guess. "

"It has always been people who wanted to provide information, but have always been somewhat contradictory versions regarding the place of his death, people who said they had shared with him the last hours of his life. Finally, there were always people ... then, I thought he was one over which I had already heard. But this man sat in front of me and told me in letters that he had participated in the death of my father. The immediate impact was great, did not know Espinoza ...", how to react in an interview recapitulates some time to The Nation.



There was one detail that gave the necessary credibility to the informant's version. "He said he never had a clear conscience, not only by the death of my father, but also because my dad gave him a letter about five hours before he was shot, to be delivered to my mother," she says. That letter never reached its destination, it was lost in moving house. But others had arrived, his father managed to send his family in the months before his death.

"The saddest thing he had heard this was the way as killed. My dad was always a very sociable person, always full of friends .... and killed himself, was not even shot with a partner, "says making efforts not to falter.
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Luis Espinoza had at the time of his death 33 years and four sons, Luis Eduardo 12, Ramon, 11, Patricia now 9 and the deputy, Fidel, barely 3 years to date.



Despite his young age, the MP said he had engraved in his mind the day that police patrol came to his house to inform death, it came to the door driven by the desperate cries of his mother, kneeling on the floor, shouted murderers! by the police.

A story that was key to their colleagues in the House bank, ended up supporting the bill that would reduce penalties and to the exemption because of those witnesses of these facts that are willing to collaborate with justice. A former police anonymously gave details of the murder of his father. He himself had participated in the squad ... Fidel Espinoza

also learned other painful details, as the cruel torture he was subjected his father every other day, in a place where he has been many times, but never imagined that which has been used for such purposes : In the fourth floor of the government of Llanquihue.

"I know that this was the place where more were tortured and then taken as a package, even unconsciously, to the headquarters of the Investigative Police of Puerto Montt," he said on more than chance with deep regret. Today

kept in suspense to the head of government cabinet Piñera, for accusing him through an anonymous women using google paying only 40 thousand dollars a month.
"At stake is my honor and my family. Without apology, force me to take him to court" said the deputy.

is the brief history of the teacher and deputy first national majority and remember to this day on December 73 when a squad of police came to his house in the south and his mother was crying helplessly.
The police car to his mother informing him that the deputy Luis Espinoza was killed "by an escape attempt." Fidel was three and observe clearly that scene that marked his life forever.
On Thursday, Rep. Mary Hoffmann UDI naively asked Congress to "not know where it came from so much resentment of the Member Espinoza."
The answer is rather obvious ...
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Source: Cambio21.
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CUBA: Cuba releases dissident blogger


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all started in April when the blogger and independent journalist in Cuba, Virgin Dania García, was sentenced to prison for "abuse of authority" after an argument with his daughter for 23 years. Now, the court changed its mind and decided to release her, under penalty of U.S. $ 13.

The case was very controversial because groups like the Inter American Press Association (IAPA) called him a "political ploy" by the government.

Dania García, 41, who writes for U.S. sites of the Cuban opposition and supporter of the Damas de Blanco (mothers and wives of jailed dissidents) said that the prosecution changed "precautionary measure" against him and acknowledged it was "unfair to have come to prison."

spent fifteen days in the high security prison in Havana Black Mantle, after being arrested last April 21 and sentenced two days later. Avoid

bad international press


Garcia said that the prosecution acknowledged that it was "unfair to have come to prison."
The release coincides, as he explained the BBC correspondent in Cuba, Michael Voss, with the government's decision to allow a march of the Ladies in White, after the intervention of the Catholic Church. According

the leader of the Cuban Commission for Human Rights, Elizardo Sánchez, "the fact that Garcia is a militant dissident led us to suspect that the process was a trap to get her out of circulation."

Sanchez added that the release of Garcia and allow the march of the Ladies in White are a "sign" indicating that Cuban leaders are trying to avoid bad press outside their borders.

Cuban authorities, said BBC correspondent in Cuba, "deny that political prisoners, calling them mercenaries paid by the U.S. to undermine the system."
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Source: BBC World.
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Exhibition at Japan Society, Raikes, spider earth, and further notes on Kuniyoshi

After several weeks of leaving the blog, on behalf of some trips and other various reasons, would like to start the avalanche of posts I'll be uploading in the next two months (to somehow try to redeem myself of absence), with some excellent notes on Kuniyoshi exhibition that opened last month in the Japan Society Gallery in New York and other comments around one of the best known of the illustrator and part of the sample, The Raikes and ground spider.
The exhibition in question, which is open until June 13 this year, is one of the best and most complete examples of the work of Utagawa Kuniyoshi 歌 川 国 芳 (1797-1861) I've seen, and are organized in the last 15 years. Graphic entitled Heroes, Monsters Magic (1) , feeds mainly from the private collection of Arthur R. Miller, who also just donate to British Museum. Indeed, the chief curandor Japanese collection of this institution, Timothy Clark, was the one who made both curatorial work, as well as catalog , I highly recommend to those interested in Kuniyoshi and ukiyo-e general because not only is an updated study on the life and work of nineteenth century Japanese illustrator, but includes the odd discovery interesting, and images of rare books.
addition to the known tryptic Kuniyoshi themed warriors and phantasms (Musha-e 武 者 絵), subject to pitch to this illustrator poularidad had to compete against strong business drive and his contemporary illustrators the likes of Keisai 渓 斎 英 泉 Eisen (1790-1848), Utagawa Hiroshige 歌 川 広 重 (1797-1858), Katsushika Hokusai 葛 饰 北 斎 (1760-1849) or, its biggest rival, Utagawa Kunisada 歌 川 国 贞 ( 1786-1865), display also devotes considerable space to other aspects of their production as they were the "beautiful women" (Bijin-ga 美人 画), landscapes ( 风景画 fūkei-ga), the prints of actors in the theater 歌舞 伎 kabuki ( Yakusho-e 役 者 絵) and humor (especially from his "cartoons" or "crazy prints," 狂 画 Kyoga).

is fair to the latter category ( Kyoga), but also relates to the theme of Warriors (Musha-e ), which owns the image you want to make a few notes here: Yorimitsu Minamoto no-Ko or Tsuchigumo yōkai Yakata zu wo nasu 源 頼 光 公馆 土 蜘 作 妖怪 図 (ground spider produces monsters in the mansion Yorimitsu Minamoto), edited by Ibay Senzaburō 伊 场 屋 仙 三郎 in the summer of 1843. This triptych by Kuniyoshi is widely known on account of an alleged legal process raised against his illustrator and his editor, at the peak of the editorial controls Tenpo Reform. I am not interested here comment on the process in question, since on this topic abound in another future post (2) , but at least mention the time that people took this picture as an open criticism of the situation caused by the reforms, and the nightmares that the "ghosts" and the spider caused the rulers of the time.
Of course, it prácicamente impossible to determine whether this was the real intention or publisher Kuniyoshi, however, the pieces were withdrawn from the market and printing blocks destroyed, and this fact is just the trigger for an abundant production of reprints, as well as pirated versions and alternatives of the triptych, as I'm inserting here below. Of these, the first is likely to be the original version, the following three are illegal or pirated versions, and the last three are alternate versions of the illustrators Utagawa Sadahide 歌 川 贞 秀 (1807-1873), Toyohara Kunichika 豊 原国 周 (1835-1900), and Hokuki (dates unknown).

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1. I put here some links of reviews that on about the exhibition and the catalog appeared in ArtRepublic , The New York Times and Suite101.
2. On this picture and the alleged legal process just finished an article that was delivered last week, and will appear in the journal Studies Asia and Africa, the Colmex , before the year is out. Once published, is included in the blog a link to your electronic file .