yamagatofellowship.org

yamagatofellowship.org
First mentioned:	May 7, 2007
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yamagatofellowship.org is the real-life website for Yamagato Fellowship, the gallery owned by Yamagato Industries. The gallery was headed by Kaito Nakamura until he was succeeded by his daughter Kimiko Nakamura.

About

The site contains an English translation of a speech given by Kaito Nakamura (the original speech in Japanese is also available in video form), stating how history has always told the stories of heroes. It also has links to a repository and a videos and events page (which is currently unavailable).

The repository page of the website features images and stories of a select few mythological and real-life heroes including:

• Takezo Kensei
• Beowulf
• Jason
• Crazy Horse
• Gawain
• Thor
• Khufu
• Benjamin Franklin

Sword Saint

On August 27, 2007, yamagatofellowship.org began airing a five-part documentary about Takezo Kensei called Sword Saint. Interviews were conducted with experts, including Professor Donna Dorn (from the University of Chicago, Japanese Studies), Curator Tatsuya Atsumi (of the Museum of Cultural History in Tokyo, Japan), and Professor Karen Chamberlin (from the University of Cambridge's Literature Department).

For the full article, see Sword Saint.

Updates

On February 12, 2008, yamagatofellowship was updated to reflect Kaito Nakamura's succession by Kimiko Nakamura to the position of President of Yamagato Fellowship. A suggestions page was added asking for additional repository requests to be sent to researchers@yamagatofellowship.org. Information about Khufu was also added to the repository. A section was added to each of the repository subjects called "Why he is a hero".

On March 3, 2008, Benjamin Franklin was added to the repository page.

Notes

• The kanji underneath the word "Yamagato" in the header translate to "furtherance group". The kanji in the red circle on the far right means "preface" or "beginning".

Gallery

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  The Home page contains links and the English translation of a speech by Kaito Nakamura.
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  The repository page contains images and stories of mythological and real-life heroes.
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  The videos and events section states that it is "Coming soon".
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  Sword Saint documents the life and legend of Takezo Kensei.

See Also

• For other uses of Yamagato, see Yamagato (disambig).
• For information about Yamagato Fellowship, see Yamagato Fellowship.
• For an interview in which writer Chuck Kim discusses Sword Saint, see here.
• For more information about the documentary found on yamagatofellowship.org, see Sword Saint.

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