HI, everyone!
Azalea, I didn’t know that people in the Edo era ate katsuo, bonito, with mustard. I wonder why not garlic or ginger?
Plum, I thank you for letting me know about the site of Kate Millett. It is a terrific experience for me to learn about feminism I’ve never known, and I’d like to know more.
The other day, I found an interesting magazine while netsurfing. My theme of next essay is a female socialist Suga Kanno, who was executed in the Meiji era. That magazine made up a special edition for her on the very day of her death day, January 25. There are several articles and her timeline by some researchers on it. I got excited to know that she used to live in Kitaku, Osaka, where I lived in ten years ago. Lucky coincidence!
But in my brain, there are Queen Victoria and her days’ people, and Hideko Fukuda and her contemporaries. I’m afraid I am a person with only one brain cell…!
well, see you tomorrow. Good bye.
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Hi,friends,
It is Wednesday, May 7th. It was very warm comforatable day. I know there held a session by Johnason. I'm so sorry I missed it. In the morning I wasn't feeling so well. But now I'm OK. Doctor prescribed me medicine to lower cholesterol. LDL measured 157 mg/dl. A little high, just a little, I think. Should I take it ?
Azales, how are you feeling now ? To my surprise, Dr. Uetani's office was filled with patients.
Hello, friends.The theme of today's Jonathan's meeting was 'Harmony in Japan.' Attendants were cosmos, sunflower, yoko san and me. He asked why Japanese think much of harmony and when and by whom we were taught to keep harmony with others.
Sunflower talked about Prince Shotoku who insisted that 'wa' was very important among people thru Buddhism.
But is it a strategy of politicians? Jonahtan was raised in the open minded and free country and could say an opinion straightforward before, but he learned Honne to tatemae in Japan
and sometimes reserves criticism to keep harmony, but he asked ,"If we don't say honest opinions, do we become real friends? To keep harmony isn't always good because there is no improvement if we hide something or just be patient without saying a word against someone or something."
Yes, that's right. But to tell the truth I have no guts to raise a riot against the Japanese government which has a lot of wrongdoings and bad managements and bad news always irritating me though.
Setouchi Jakucho told yesterday on TV,'The eldery should go on a hunger strike in front of the cabinet. Don't suffer in silence!
If one or two becomes ill or falls down, then the government will notice their fault.'It was a radical opinion, but we are just waiting someone who takes the lead.
And there is no one to act aggressivery to change the society because harmony is important, or just chicken hearted.
Hi, everyone.
Cherry, Ieyasu Tokugawa banned Shizuoka farmers from shipping houseradishes to other places. Horseradishes were not familiar to Edo commonalty. Mustard was imported from a foreign country.
I tried it, I like the condiment better than a ginger or a horseradish. Perhaps, you think it's a miss match, rather I felt Edo people's taste is chic.
Peach, thank you for your worrying about me. I am very careful for my health now, but I can acquire what the agent is. I can cope with it. Laziness is good madicine for me.
I think your condition seems serious. How is your blood pressure? I recommend you to have an excise such as a-half-hour- walking every day over medicine. Or come to my house to enjoy weeding.
Hi, flowers,
We enjoyed another brilliant early summer day, didn't we?
Magnolia, your comment on "harmony" made me smile. However, what do you think of "monster parents, customers etc." in these days? Are they new species of Japanese?
A Wish (April 29)
Last Sunday was just a gorgeous spring day.
Young tree-leaves sparkle with sunlight.
In rising wind, white dogwood flowers sway.
Spring does make our spirit uplift.
However, I felt as if I were a Rip Van Winkle,
Sitting at the bottom of the fresh greenery,
Thinking that I should have been a vigorous leaf that did twinkle.
It is only three years ago, so I thought reflecting my memory.
Since then have I got old,
Have I lost an innocent passion as I got experienced?
No, the passion was tamed while my sojourn in an erudite world
Where my spirit was exalted yet my vitality was consumed.
However, I feel the world is the nitch that my heart is longing for,
Sitting at the bottom of the abundant greenery,
Wondering whether I could be tougher than before.
It is three years later, I hope, when I find myself as a resident of the country.
Hi, everyone. It is Thursday, May 7th. Let me write about 'harmony'. To be harmonious has been valued highly in Japan since Shotoku Taishi published Jyunanajyo Constitutions, or the constitutions consising of 17 articles, which Sunflower mentioned. If Syotokutaishi didn't exist, who would make it? There is a hypothesis that he doesn't exist. I imagine that the politicians those days who wanted to govern the people more easily might make up
the constitutions and make him express or embody them. If harmony is esteemed higher than debate, the governor can behave as he wishes.
Still, I believe harmony is a virtue. If harmony is kept, we enjoy being stable. The monster parents misunderstand the right of freedom. They just seem to insist and persist their own right.
Living in an island under the mild climate in Japan, the way of thinkig becomes milder. If the global warming influeces Japan, the temperament is somehow effected and changed.
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