Hi, my dear friends!
It seems like it’s going to be a clear day today, doesn’t it?
Even now, my excitement hasn’t disappeared since yesterday’s splendid learning time. I didn’t know about the Victorian era very well, and I was really impressed with members’ deep interests and knowledge about it. Moreover, I was also deeply moved by Plum’s passionate lecture on us. ‘Grab the chance!’ ‘Make a splash!’ I like those sentences. Who on earth could tell me like this until now? Nobody. OK, we can grab the chance and make a splash!
Now, I can smell sweet fragrance of rose mini fragrancer you gave us yesterday. Thank you very much, Plum.
So, have a nice holiday! See you!
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Hi, ladies!!!
It was a great day yesterday, wasn’t it?
Yesterday, I had eight visitors, namely, Alice, Cosmos, Sunflower, Cherry, Azalea, Peach, Viola, and Noriko san, and we had a delightful time.
But I would like to make one correction with sincere apology. I said many times “Mary Taylor”, but it should have been “Harriet Taylor”. It seems that I mixed up “Mary Wollstonecraft” and “Harriet Taylor”. It is hard to remember people’s names sometimes, as you know very well. Sorry, sorry, sorry…
I at last found Essays On Sex Equality: John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor Mill, edited and with an introductory essay by Alice S. Rossi. I knew that I owned it, but I could not find it for a long time. But I have found it and I would like to add this book, which is very easy to read and understand, to the reading list on marriage. A tutorial on marriage will be held in November, and we have a lot of time before that, and so I hope you enjoy comprehending Harriet Taylor Mill’s philosophy. I am quite certain her essays will enlighten you, who are learning about Victorian society so earnestly.
Also I could not remember the phrase the “survival of the fittest”, which was presented in On The Origin Of Species (1859) by Charles Darwin (1809-82). It was an extremely sensational research book, although there was uncertainty of the creation of the universe by God, going around.
Similarly sensational was a short novel called The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) by R. L. Stevenson (1850-94), because one person has double, totally different, characters, which was, perhaps, never thought of before in characterization in creative writing. Until then, good people are always good and bad people are always bad.
Interesting, isn’t it?
Well, I am going to have lunch soon, my lovely friends. I will talk to you again, and be sure that “Harriet Taylor” is a correct name. Bye-bye.
Hello, Cherry and my dear friends.
It was a lovely day today. I felt like taking a walk along the bank of the Aichi waterway with my DH (dearest habby).
I’ve been rewriting my essay. The more I get new information, the more trouble I have to organize it in my essay.
I was so depressed yesterday because I spent lots of time and effort on checking my paper, but I don’t feel comfortable about writing it at all. I wonder why it is always so. Then I gave up and went to bed.
Today I started to check my paper. I feel like I’m going to write smoothly this time.
Plum, I appreciated instructive advice for me. I feel like I’m going to explode. Your story seemed to make me spiritually independent of you. “Self-help” is my goal.
I’m going to finish my essay and want to get started my next work.
Good-by my precious friends.
Hi, Cherry and friends,
Today I'd like to mention about Masa Nakayama's another secret.
She is the first female minister. There is an interesting episode of her being in the position reveiled by her son, Masaaki Nakayama in Bungeisyunjyu. Masa was in the sect of Ohno Bannai who is a rival against Ikeda Hayato. The reason unknown, Mr. Ohno retreated from the election for the president of LDP. So Mr. Ikeda was elected. Before forming the cabinet, Mr. Ikeda met Mr. Ohno. Ohno brought a list of potential ministers. Mr. Ikeda tuned the list paper over saying if the list doesn't include the names whom Ikeda wanted, it is far more rude as Ohno is senior to him. Ikeda refused to see the list but gave two names. Being so, Masa became the first female Health and Welfare Minister. Masa's son, Masaaki Nakayama revealed what Mr. Ohno told him about the occasion: Hayato Ikada is such a big man. My list didn't include your mother's name. Masaaki said he was also impressed with Ohno because he revealed the fact. I was very satisfied with this material I got at Tsurumai Library. I haven't been to Aichi Prefecture Library yet. I feel so sorry for that. I should go there with in a few days.
I hear the nearest subway station is Marunouchi. Good night, my precious friends.
Dear Cherry and friends,
Hi. How are you?
I'm staying up late tonight. I have been trying to finish my essay, but I gave it up.
Cherry, I felt exactly as you felt, after I met Plum.
She has charisma, doesn't she?
I always wonder where her energy comes from.
Last week was Philately Week. I found it today at the post office when I got a sheet of commemorative stamps. I have a stamp album. I used to collect used stamps. I am not a collector any more, but whenever available, I get commemorative stamps to use them.
What is Philately Week for? I checked on the Internet. It says, it started in 1947. The primary purpose was to popularize collecting stamps. The cultural value of stamps were emphasized. “Philately Week” seems Japanese unique propaganda.
Talking about stamps, the Penny Black, the first stamp, was issued in May in 1840.
On January 10, 1840, a uniform postage rate of one penny was introduced in UK.
These events didn't happen at the same time. I wondered why.
Wikipedia answered me. This service was inaugurated with a postage-prepaid envelope. That makes sense.
I am wondering where Azalea has gone. Hope she is having a good time wherever she travels.
Good night.
Hi, ladies!!!
It has been a lovely spring day, hasn’t it?
I have been preparing lecture handouts at the moment, which I think will take quite a long time. Today, I wrote something about Mary Wollstonecraft.
She was born in 1759 in London, left home at the age of 19 and started to run a school with one of her sisters in 1783, probably at the age of 23 or 24. Four years later, she began to make a living as a professional writer.
At the age of 32 or 33, she had her book A Vindication of the Rights of Woman published in 1792. She died at 38, leaving her daughter born one month before in the hands of her anarchist husband.
Two years before she married him, she tried to kill herself because she was dumped by her American lover, who fathered her another daughter. She had a lot of ups and downs in life, didn’t she?
As I told you a long time ago, she is now well-known as a feminist who argued the higher education for women in modern England.
Well, I have to cook dinner soon, my precious friends. Bye-bye.
Hello, Cherry and friends
Golden Week has started and today is the National Holiday, besides it is a fantastic comfortable weather. We can see now azaleas and dogwoods in full bloom in town.
I saw an interesting program last night by chance. It depicted the depression of Soseki Natume in London.
Soseki was born and grown up in rapidly changing social situation of Japan, from isolation policy to opening to the world policy. He went to London to study under the zeal to learn western culture. However he suffered from heavy depression, though he had a great capacity to read 500 English books. The commentator said that his depression was caused from loss of identity. He couldn’t catch up the mobility in London. He was accustomed to the fixed ranking society, where the people’s social positions and the places of residence kept unchanged all their lives. In a sense it was a very stable society, though controlled. Almost all people died where he was born. In London, the situation used to be alike several years before Sodeki visited. But thanks to Industry Revolution, invention of steam engine and development railroads etc. society of London had shifted from a fixed society into moving society, physically and mentally. Soseki couldn’t adopt the mobile city. He couldn’t find his own place to settle down.
Now I’ll wrap up today. Bye, friends.
Hello, ladies!!!
It was a very beautiful day today. I stayed home all day long while my DH went fishing and Kyoko went to Hozugawa kudari in Kyoto.
I was checking my essay again. While I was doing a research about “the Sapporo band” and “the Iwakura Mission” on the Internet, luckily enough, I could hit very intriguing papers in English. I was very excited at reading them.
I’d like to share some of information about William S.Clark.
He was an “oyatoi gaijin” who was hired by the new Meiji government at high salaries to teach students an American-style agricultural knowledge and techniques to help modernize Japan’s northern frontier. He served as vice president at Sapporo Agricultural College for only eight month.
But as you know, Clark was a charismatic and spiritual teacher and left a famous phrase when he departed from Japan in 1877.
"Boys, be ambitious.” is widely known among us.
The full quote is “Boys, be ambitious. Be ambitious not for money or for self aggrandizement, not for that evanescent thing which men call fame. Be ambitious for that attainment of all that a man ought to be.”
I feel like I can understand inspiring feelings of those students influenced by Christianity through Clark.
The young who had a higher Western education had a great ambition to transform old Japan into a modernized nation. They aspired to do something for the state and the people.
Meiji Women,Kieko and Hatsuko who had learned Western learning by Janes and Masahisa Uemura had great passion to attain their ambition that a man ought to be.”
It's time to go to bed. Thank you for reading. See you tomorrow.
Dear Cherry and friends,
Hello.
It's a nice day for reading.
The sunshine hurts my skin, so I didn't want to go out, particularly, during the day.
This morning, I read some articles from the books I borrowed from libraries. One of the articles was about Ichiko Kamichika. Her life story is very impressive. This is written by Prof. Sachiko Kaneko of Nagoya Junior College.
Prof. Kaneko's point of view is interesting. She describes Kamichika as a Japanaese “New Woman.” The “New Woman” movement grew up among Victorian women. It was introduced through translated literatures by Japanese male intellectuals and embodied by progressive women such as Raicho Hiratsuka.
The most impressive incident related to Kamichika is Hikagejaya jiken. She injured her lover seriously. Her lover, Sakae Osugi who was an anarchist was cheating her in the name of free love. Kamichika was cast into prison because of this incident. Later, she published a magazine for women. In spite of the criminal record, she became a politician after World War II.
She was from a Buddhist family, but she went to Nagasaki Kassui Jogakuin, a mission school. When I read this, I thought, “Oh. Masa Nakayama studied at the same school. Maybe this is the reason why Peach came to be interested in Kamichika.”
This article is from the anthology titled “Higashi Ajia no Kokumin Kokka Keisei to Jenda” edited by Noriyo Hayakawa et al. The publishing company is Aoki Shoten.
Good night.
Hi, everyone,
It is the last day in April. It is rather hot. I'm going to my daughter's school for the meeting this afternoon. Azalea, where are you planning to go? Azaleas are at the best now. They are so beautiful and look friendly. This year, I especially notice its beauty. Alice, what a coincidence!
The reason why I'm interested in her is, of concerned with Masa Nakayama. What is more, Syoko Shirahama who wrote Nagasaki-Kassui-no-musumetatiyo, whom I talked on the phone as Plum suggested me said on the phone, she had been researcing about Kamichika. But as she suffers eye disease, she has to stop publishsing it. I'm interested not only the past women but also living women. Interesting ?
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