File spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive/anarchy-list_2000/anarchy-list.0008, message 97


Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2000 17:06:56 -0700
From: "Dave, Recollection Books" <recall-AT-eskimo.com>
Subject: Query: Vasily Eroshenko, Russian anarchist


While looking up information on Karl Yoneda,
I have come across reference to Vasily Eroshenko (1890-1952), a blind
Russian
anarchist & participant in the esperanto movement.

Anyone provide any information, for inclusion in the Daily Bleed
calendar
&  The Daily Bleed's Encyclopedia & Gallery regards Eroshenko?
any specific dates (birth, death, events, etc) or biographical details?

--- David Brown, BleedMeister
Daily Bleed, http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/calmast.htm
Stan Iverson Memorial Library, http://recollectionbooks.com/siml
Gallery of Anti-Authoritarians,
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/gallery

Excerpts of information I have come across:

As a student Karl Yoneda read the works of Marx and the Russian
anarchist, who
was kicked out of Japan in
1921 for his politics and lived in China. Yoneda found passage to China
and
hitchhiked to Beijing, meeting the blind Russian
in 1922. He studied with
the Eroshenko for two months
http://www.ilwu.org/0599/people_0599.htm

Love's Scar. Vasily Eroshenko (1890-1952). Compiled by
Mine Yositaka. Translated from Chinese by Shi Chengtai
and Guozhu. Toyonaka: Japanese Esperanto Book
Cooperative, 1996. 113p. ISBN 4-930785-44-8. 1 8cm.
Four tales written in 1922-23 in Japanese. The source text
 is a translation into Chinese by LU Xün, who probably
 consulted the author about interpretations. 14.70 gld.

Bahai related:

http://www.bahai-library.org/east-asia/divine.flag/chapter14.html

 Tokujiro Torii (1894-1970)

      Mr. Torii, who was blind, first heard of the Faith in 1916 from
Miss Alexander.
At that time he was a student at the
Government School for the Blind in Tokyo. An acquaintance of his, Mr.
Vasily Eroshenko,
a blind Russian Esperantist,
introduced him to Miss Alexander. Mr. Torii graduated that year, got
married and became
a teacher in a school for the blind
in Ejiri. One time Miss Alexander visited Mr. Torii at his residence and
for several days
read many Bahá'í books to him. He
said he found a new light, and as Miss Alexander said, the Faith shone
in his heart as Truth.
He became the second believer
in Japan.
-----
While I remained in Geneva I visit the rooms of the Universal
Esperanto Association which I had joined. There I met a Russian
lady Esperantist. When she heard that I was going to Japan, she
told me of a blind Russian young man, Vasily Eroshensko an
Esperantist who was there and asked me to look him up. This was
the opening which brought great blessings into my life through
friendship with the blind. The Russian lady took me to her home
where I gave the Message. She said she would tell of it in city
and town. She translated part of the Honolulu Unity Calendar into
Esperanto and gave it to me to take to her blind friend in Tokyo.
http://www.bahai-library.org/east-asia/history.japan/
"One of my most ardent friends here is a blind Russian boy,
(Vasily Eroshenko). He is the first fruits of my joining the
Universal Esperanto Association. At the rooms in Geneva, I met a
Russian lady Esperantist, who asked me to look this boy up in
Tokyo. One evening I attended the Esperanto meeting here and got
his address.
-----
Vasily Eroshenko

Through the meeting in the Esperanto rooms in Geneva in
September, 1914, of Miss Anna Sharapov, a friend of Vasily
Eroshenko, a new world of joyous service came into my life. It
was Mr. Eroshenko who assisted me to translate the Baha'i
teaching into Esperanto. It was he who helped me to learn English
and Esperanto Braille, bringing me in close touch with the blind
of Japan. It was through his effort that I had the joy of sharing
the Baha'i Message with Tokujiro Torii and through him with the
blind of Japan. It was he who introduced me to the writer, U.
Akita, who was sympathetic to the Cause, and wrote magazine
articles through which the first Japanese young woman accepted
the Baha'i Message.

 Mr. Eroshenko was also the door by which a new world was opened
to the Japanese blind through the Esperanto language. He said
that if Esperanto had done nothing else in the world, it had
already united the blind. They had an International Association
which published a year book giving the addresses of blind
Esperantists throughout the world, thus enabling them to
correspond and exchange ideas with the blind in other countries.

 In the summer of 1916, Mr. Eroshenko left Tokyo to go to Siam.


   

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