{"id":1227,"date":"2025-12-23T20:44:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T20:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/?p=1227"},"modified":"2025-12-23T20:48:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T20:48:37","slug":"momijigari-1899","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/2025\/12\/23\/momijigari-1899\/","title":{"rendered":"Momijigari (1899)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Momijigari<\/em> is the oldest known Japanese film, filmed in 1899 by the filmmaker and documentarian <em>Tsunekichi Shibata<\/em>, depicting a scene from the kabuki play of the same name where a demon impersonates a noblewoman, and is later challenged to a duel. It features two of the most famous kabuki actors of the time, <em>Ichikawa Danj\u016br\u014d IX<\/em> and <em>Onoe Kikugor\u014d V<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/momijigari003s.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"618\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/momijigari003s.png 800w, https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/momijigari003s-300x232.png 300w, https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/momijigari003s-768x593.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><br \/>\n__________<\/p>\n<p><strong>Notes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1.<\/strong> <em>I watched this on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ELJlQ2o6NzQ\" target=\"_blank\">youtube<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>2.<\/strong> <em>Also apologies for the lack of anything interesting in this review (which isn&#8217;t even really a review, is it?).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>3.<\/strong> <em>It&#8217;s been over a year since I wrote anything on here and I&#8217;ve forgotten how to think or feel.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>4.<\/strong> <em>But anyway I liked it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>5.<\/strong> <em>I hope that&#8217;s okay<\/em><\/p>\n<p>__________<\/p>\n<p><strong>Film Information<\/p>\n<p>Name:<\/strong> <em>Momijigari<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Director:<\/strong> <em>Tsunekichi Shibata<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Year:<\/strong> <em>1899<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Duration:<\/strong> <em>5 minutes<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Articles:<\/strong> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Momijigari_(film)\" target=\"_blank\">A wikipedia article about Momijigari<\/a> (which is much more informative than this post)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Momijigari is the oldest known Japanese film, filmed in 1899 by the filmmaker and documentarian Tsunekichi Shibata, depicting a scene from the kabuki play of the same name where a demon impersonates a noblewoman, and is later challenged to a duel. It features two of the most famous kabuki actors of the time, Ichikawa Danj\u016br\u014d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[297,538,198,536,539,537],"class_list":["post-1227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-film-is-more-than-100-years-old","tag-297","tag-ichikawa-danjuro-ix","tag-japan","tag-momijigari","tag-onoe-kikugoro-v","tag-tsunekichi-shibata"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1227"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1235,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227\/revisions\/1235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}