Masabumi hosono biography of martin

The Last of the Last

i I thank my colleague Takahisa Furukawa, professor at Yokohama City University and descendant of Hosono Masabumi, for sending me copies of Hosono's letter as printed in Sunday Mainichi and of his interview in Yomiuri shinbun.

Professor Furukawa has himself published published a short article on Hosono: Taitanikku gô no Nihonjin (The Japanese on the Titanic), in Yûjirô Ôguchi et al., eds, Nihonshi shiwa 3: kindai, kendai (Tokyo: Yamakawa 1994), pp.134-7.

ii Colonel Archibald Gracie, Titanic: A Survivor's Story (1913; re-issued Phoenix Mill: Sutton Publishing 1985), p.114; Lawrence Beesley, The Loss of the S.S. Titanic By One of the Survivors (1912; re-issued, Boston: Houghton Mifflin 2000), p.149.
iii Gracie, p.

34; Beesley, p. 51, 193; see also Steven Biel, Down with the Old Canoe: A Cultural History of the Titanic Disaster (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1996), pp.47-8. iv His wife received a letter he wrote on the Titanic on 24 April; see Hideo Hosono, Dass