Hi, ladies.
I am now reading a book Kanno Sugako zensyu. She was an anarchistic socialist in the Meiji era, and executed as an exemplary punishment at age 30. While reading some of them, I found her firm determination to socialism made an appearance here and there.
She said;
A sacrifice is the life of socialism.
I’d rather die than live just as a creature.
I hate death from disease. I want to die revolutionarily.
I was surprised by such statements. They were all written, not in her diary, but in a public newspaper! She seems to live her life as she wished. I’m interested in her passionate nature, and I’d like to learn what made her do it so strongly.
So, see you later, good bye!
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Dear Cherry and friends,
It is Wednesday, March 21. I repent of my laziness as I didn't write in this blog especially after I have read Plum's kind message. As we have to share one PC after my DH's PC has been in need of repairing, I am so frustrated.
Cherry, Sugako's saying reminds me of the photo shown in the handouts where a woman is dashed herself against the running horse. This image leads me to the terroristic action of setting bombs or fire to oneself. They are protesting against the unreasonable restriction.
I always read a colum by Osamu Mizutani, Yomawari-sensei who was a forme teacher and has been going out at night to assist youngstars who are in trouble, in spite of his suffering cancer.
The latest colum was about religion. He mentions that in the Edo and the biginning of the Meiji era, there were no orphanages. It was the local temples that protected the orphans. No need to have orphanages. For the anti- Buddhist movement in the early Meiji period that led to the destruction of Buddidt temples and images which Plum referred to last time,so called Haibutsukisyaku didn't allow the temples to protect the orphans.
Luckily Christian missionaries like Elizabeth Russell came all the way overseas and devoted themselves to the Japanese people.
"If you could see it, you would find the girlhood of Japan, written in my heart"
Rusell always said this sentense, it is said. For Japan what she did was like a universal Kamikaze, a divine wind.
It touched me deeply. Thank you for reading, my dear friends.
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