Hi, ladies!!
Let me introduce Yukiko Ueno’s (the pitcher of Japan softball team) another words. She said; I could find if I don’t give up my dream, it comes true in the end. But at the same time, I also realized it is the most difficult thing in our life; those who have the strongest spiritual strength will be able to win the game...Her statements were very simple, but there was a certain authority to what she said.
I’ve enjoyed your fruitful comments. Thank you very much!
See you tomorrow, good bye!
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Hi, everyone.
Alice, Thank you very much that you sincerely responded to my question. When I read your opinion about Christian mission in Japan, I recalled Mother Teresa. I understand Missionary came to Japan with pure religious mind.
By the way, as you know, when Budhism was introduced to Japan, the fight between Soga clan and Mononobe clan took place. Soga clan who was for Budhism won the fight. Mononobe was pro Shintoism.
Magnolia, I dare to say it. I mean bankers are establishment as you know. I mean original profession of bankers. They raise money from many people and lend it on security. They play Sumo wrestling in others' loincloth. They never take a risk. On the contrary, a speculator take a responsibility by him or her self when he or she ends in fiasco. Bankers are often bailed out by the government when they failed after exorbitant business.
Hi, friends!
Everybody knows Momosuke was a great successful entrepreneur. Especially he was known as Father of Japanese electric power. But it was a speculation that enabled him to start his business. His love romance with Sadayakko was also famous in public. But I think it was in their later years. Sadayakko was a good wife and good companion of Otojiro Kawakami until he died. I am sorry that I picked up vulgar topic again, while Alice and Sunflower are coping with academic feminism issues. Your summaries are good help for me to understand Christian missionaries and Japanese women’s circumstances.
By the way, I bought a book “The Last Lecture” written by Randy Pausch. He was died on July 25th. I’d like to write a summary and my impression for it after reading the book.
See you again, friends.
Dear Cherry and friends,
Hello. It was windy, today, but it's still humid 'cause windows are closed.
Plum, I found the book through the website, 日本の古本屋.
http://www.kosho.or.jp/servlet/top
This is the guild of Japanese used bookstores. 2400 stores are the contributors of the database.
I searched by the word “missionary” and a bookstore in Gumma pref. had this book.
The method of payment is up to each bookstore. This one had to be paid in advance.
Sunflower, would you tell Reiko san the address of this blog site?
http://cherrysenglish.blogspot.com/
Just copy and paste it to the e-mail message sent to her.
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One more thing about politics and Christian missionary work. As the author of Japan and The Japan Mission of The Church Missionary Society used the phrase, “Christian diplomacy,” missionaries were conscious of their diplomatic approaches to the Japanese government. The persecution of Christians was partly due to Jesuits missionaries' failures in diplomatic policy. On this account, protestant missionaries were step ahead of them once Japan opened the country. In those days, the Japanese still remembered how their ancestors hated Catholicism.
Roughly, the book consists of three parts: (1) geographical overview, (2) historical background, and (3) Protestant mission in Japan. It uses most of the pages to deal with the missionary work of the CMS.
Today, I'll write about the second part. It can be further divided into 2 topics. One is Japanese general history; the other, a Japanese history of religion. For whichever topics, Otis Cary's book gives us more detailed history. There is a little difference in terms of what they're stressing. Cary repeatedly recorded how Japanese Christians and foreign missionaries suffered from the government's policy. On the other hand, Japan and The Japan Mission of The CMS is more objective except for a few paragraphs. I have read only half of it, but their wishful thought or self-pitying occurrences are rarely mingled with the description of Japanese history itself.
The book vividly describes what happened before and after the Revolution in 1868. Perhaps, for those who have studied Japanese history, it poorly covers events which happened during this period. For me, it gives me a lot of information. I hardly knew about it because I didn't choose Japanese history at high school.
It covers both the Boshin War (1868) and the Seinan War (1877) although they aren't named so.
It mentions Saigo “slew himself by hara-kiri” at the end of the latter war.
It stresses that the progress after the Revolution was achieved only within a few years. Therefore, it illustrates the civilization of Japan like a prefabricated building. The Japanese in the Meiji Era would have been proud of it rather than arguing against the perfunctory state building. Christian Westerners who lived in the late nineteenth century had a different opinion. They questioned, “Will that Revolution have its crown and completion in a true Reformation --- in the adoption of the Yesu-no-michi, the Way of Jesus?” In other words, the State's civilization was disparaged because Japan hadn't gone through the Reformation as England and other European countries had.
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Have a good day.
Hello, friends.
I wonder why Japanese people haven't needed religion purely like other people.
I think that Westeners' moral were cultivated through religion, especially Christianity and they craved to be Christians.
But in Japan not only Christianity but also Buddhism and Shintoism as well were used as political measures. So it's impure motive for many historical figures to have some religion.
I'm especially sorry for the envoy to Rome who were forced to send by Oda Nobunaga and when they came back, they had a hard time to survive because Christianity was prohibited. So Nakaura Julian ,Chijiwa Migel and so on ,who should have been successful if it had been a Christian world, lived in adversity and lived out their martyrdom. How miserable their lives were!
Dear Cherry and friends,
I've been stimulated a lot by your hearwarming comments and enegetic studies. Writing a proficient summary must be a good practice for comprehending and confirming what we read or hear.
I'll up Kamichika's chronology.
Chronology of Ichiko Kamichika,Part 1
1888 Born in Nabasaki as a third daughter and fifth child between Yousai Kamichika and Hana Tanaka. Her father and grandfather of mother’s side were both doctors of Chinese medicine.
1895 Father died
1895 Entered Sasa Jinjo Elementary School. Her brother got married with Fujiko Hisada
1897 Brother died
1898 Having no financial support, Ichiko had to leave school and was brought to the Sasayamas
1898 Returned to her home and backed to school
Involved in reading
1901 Graduated from elementary school and entered higher elementary school
1904 Graduated from school and stared teaching job, but quitted after 3 days as wanted to study more
In September, entered Kassui Girls School
1906 Contributed her first novel Laura Ii to the Shojo Sekai, some translation of poems to school magazine
1909 Left Kassui to enter Tsuda Eigaku Juku, Stayed with the Takehisa’s in Tokyo
1910 Entered Tsuda Eigaku Juku
1911 Knew Akita Ujaku and Erochenko, stayed with Ms. Fangled
Novel “Hiradojima” won the prize in the Mancho ho Novel Contest. Joined Seito
1913 Withdrew Seito and went to Hirosaki, Aomori to be an English teacher, left in one month and returned to Tokyo, got a teaching job at Tokyo Girls Commercial School, became a secretary to Ms. Balls. Tegami-no-hitotsu was published by Touundou as one of the Seito Novel Series
1914 Started the Safuran, Worked for the Tokyo Daily Newspaper
1915 Joined Furansu bungaku kenkyu kai, met Sakae Osugi
Thank you.
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