The first ʺMrs. Japaneseʺ of Slovenia between the two World Wars : Marija Skušek and her series of lectures on Japanese women

Hrvatin, Klara (author)

The paper’s main aim is to bring forward Marija Skušek (born Tsuneko Kondō Kawase 近藤常子 (1893–1963) and her presentations and transmission of Japanese culture to the Slovene (at that time Yugoslav) public as the first Japanese citizen who was naturalised in Slovenia. It focuses mainly on the period from 1920, when she first entered the country, until the Second World War, drawing special attention to one of her main activities––giving lectures in the years 1930–1931, and on a smaller scale 1935–1936, mostly presented to the public under the title “A Japanese about a Japanese Woman”. Such lectures testify to the Japanese-Slovenian cultural exchanges, and the cultural milieu in Slovenia in which she acted. The author takes into consideration newspaper and journals sources discussing her activities and in particular the data available from the “Archive on Marija Skušek– Tsuneko Kondō Kawase”, recently re-discovered at the Slovene Ethnographic Museum of Slovenia, where her original lecture’s manuscripts, correspondence, newspaper clips and photos are collected.

• Language: English
• Keywords: Marija Skušek (Tsuneko Kondō Kawase), Skušek Collection, Japanese culture, womenʼs movements, Franja Tavčar
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FF - Faculty of Arts
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2021
• Number of pages: Str. 169-197
• Numbering: Vol. 9 (25), no. 3
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-131554
• UDC: 069.5:930.85(520)
• ISSN on article: 2232-5131
• DOI: 10.4312/as.2021.9.3.169-197
• COBISS.SI-ID: 77226755
• Publication date in RUL: 29.09.2021

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Asian studies
• Publisher: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete, Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete, Založba Univerze v Ljubljani
• ISSN: 2232-5131
• COBISS.SI-ID: 265206272

Licences

• License: CC BY-SA 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
• Description: This Creative Commons license is very similar to the regular Attribution license, but requires the release of all derivative works under this same license.
• Licensing start date: 10.09.2021

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Prva "Madam Japanka" v Sloveniji med svetovnima vojnama : Marija Skušek in serija njenih predavanj o japonski ženi

Abstract

Glavni cilj pričujočega prispevka je predstaviti Marijo Skušek, rojeno Tsuneko Kondō Kawase 近藤常子 (1893–1963), kot prvo Japonko, ki se je naturalizirala v Sloveniji, in njeno posredovanje japonske kulture slovenski (takrat jugoslovanski) javnosti. Osredotoča se predvsem na obdobje od leta 1920 – od prihoda Tsuneko Kondō Kawase v Slovenijo – do druge svetovne vojne, pri čemer posebej izpostavi vpogled v njene glavne dejavnosti, ki pričajo o japonsko-slovenski kulturni izmenjavi in kulturnem okolju v Sloveniji, v katerem je delovala. Natančneje, pod drobnogled bo vzeta njena serija predavanj v letih 1930–1931 in v manjšem obsegu 1935–1936, ki so bila javnosti večinoma predstavljena kot »Japonka o japonski ženi«. Osnova za članek je nedavno odkriti arhiv v okviru projekta VAZ – »Arhiv o Mariji Skušek – Tsuneko Kondō Kawase« v Slovenskem etnografskem muzeju, v katerem so zbrani tudi njeni izvirni rokopisi predavanj, dopisovanja, izrezki iz časopisov in fotografije.

• Keywords: Marija Skušek (Tsuneko Kondō Kawase), Skuškova zbirka, japonska kultura, ženska gibanja, Franja Tavčar, zasebne zbirke

Projects

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: J7-9429
• Name: Vzhodnoazijske zbirke v Sloveniji: vpetost slovenskega prostora v globalno izmenjavo predmetov in idej z Vzhodno Azijo

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: P6-0243
• Name: Azijski jeziki in kulture