>Tami Koume's paintings now on Exhibition in Japan
>
>   I think many of the list members know the name,
>Tami Koume (Tamijuro Kume). He was a Japanese
>painter loved by Pound.
>   On July 8, 1922, from Paris, Pound wrote to his
>English teacher at U. of Penn., Prof. Felix E. Schellings,
>"am having a show of Koume's paintings in this studio
> on Tuesday $B!D (Blarge canvases, some of them $B!D (B"
>(_Selected Letters_, p.179).
>   Now at the Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura in Japan,
>Koume's eight paintings are on exhibition. Many of them
>owned by his family are exhibited publicly for the first time.
>One of them, titled "Off England" is classified as vorticist
>painting.
>   Until recently, Koume was a forgotten painter in Japan.
>He was rediscovered in 1980's by Shiro Tsunoda, then
>Prof. of English at Obirin Univ. and a researcher of Pound.
>He did biographical study of Koume by interviewing with
>his family. After Tsunoda's study, detailed study from the
>view point of art history was done by Toshiharu Omuka,
>Prof. of art history at Tsukuba University.
>   Until now, very small number of his paintings are known.
>So information about his paintings are needed for further
>study.
>   According to Omuka's study, Koume's paintings were
>exhibited at Kingore Gallery of the fifth avenue, New York,
>in February 1921. So there's some possibility that his
>paintings might be found outside of Japan, too.
>   "Tami's dream", once owned by Pound, also is of great
>interest. Pound wrote, in the Cantos LXXVI , "the hidden
>nest, Tami's dream, the great Ovid / bound in thick board,
>the bas relief of Ixotta". Things here he wrote are his
>loved things at Olga Rudge's house in Venice as Mary de
>Rachewiltz wrote in _Discretions_ .
>    Rachewiltz wrote about Koume's painting as follows.
>   "The wall along the stairs leading to the top room was
>taken up completely by a gray opaque canvas into which
>I read nothingness ; chaos, the universe or the torso of
>a giant, crucified. Tami Koume's Super-artificial-growing-
>creation, whispering : " We are now standing at the critical
>moment of humanity. We must be saved by something."
 
Pound quotes this at the beginning of his translation
of Confucius' Chung Yung (The Unwobbling Pivot),
which he did in the death cells at Pisa 1945
 
 
>(p.22)
>  She wrote ,"his big canvas in Venice torn to pieces
>during the war". But according to note in _A Companion_
>(p.401), Tami's dream was sequestered as alien enemy
>property during WWII and disapeared." So, there's some
>possibility, though very little, that Tami's dream might be
>found again.
>
>  Hideo Nogami
>  studying Ezra Pound nonprofessionally in Japan
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Ausserdem lassen wir den Lasagne fliegen!
 
 
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"Observed that the paint was
Three quarters of an inch thick and concluded,
As they were being rammed through,the age of that
Cruiser." "Referred to no longer as
The goddamned Porta-goose, but as
England's oldest ally."
        Ezra Pound, Canto 27
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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