HI, ladies!
These days I am interested in the actor Masahiro Motoki, as I wrote about it before, since I had been impressed by the touching movie Okuribito. The other day, I happened to see a making video on TV, which was produced for publicity of the coming drama Sakano ueno kumo written by Ryotaro Shiba. He is going to act as Saneyuki Akiyama, the leading role in it.
Since I began to learn and write on the Meiji period and the Victorian age about two years ago, I have wanted to get a broader knowledge of the subject, especially in the Nisshin and Nichiro senso. Though both wars had a profound impact on Japan, I can neither understand nor imagine the situation at all. So, this drama will give me a good opportunity to learn the history. Now I’m looking forward to watch the drama on this winter.
So, see you later, have a good Monday night...
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Hi, ladies!!!
It’s Monday, April 13, 2009 today.
We have been blessed with the mild and pleasant weather all day today. How did you spend the day, my precious friends?
Nature, conservation or the environment has been becoming one of the most important social and scientific subjects these days, hasn’t it? I believe it is very significant to discuss this type of issue openly and broadly.
Now, I have found an interesting article related to endangered animals inhabiting in Asia in the BBC website and made a quiz for you and me. Have fun and learn how to use and not to use articles.
New rare orangutan find in Borneo
A hitherto unknown population of orangutans numbering perhaps 1-2,000 has been found on (1) island of Borneo, conservation researchers say.
(2) Members of (3) reclusive endangered species were found by (4) scientists acting on tip-offs from local people.
Much of the orangutan's tropical forest habitat in Indonesia and Malaysia has been cut down for timber extraction and to create palm oil plantations.
About 50,000 orangutans are thought to remain in (5) wild.
"The reclusive red-haired primates were found in (6) rugged, largely inaccessible mountainous region," Erik Meijaard, of Nature Conservancy Indonesia, said.
(7) Journey to the region took 10 hours by car, another five by boat and then a couple more hours hiking.
The team found more than 200 nests crammed into just a few kilometres and spotted three wild orangutans in (8) canopy above them - a mother and her baby, and a large male who broke off (9) branches to throw at them.
It is even possible, the researchers say, that this could be a kind of orangutan refugee camp - with several groups moving into the same area following (10) widespread forest fires.
The team of scientists is now working with local groups to try to protect the area.
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Dear Cherry and friends
Hello! How have you been?
The book Family Fortunes tells us the process of making two separate spheres for each sex. Ministers and curates preached that women had been responsible for the salvation since human beings were lapsed into the state of sin when Eve succumbed to temptation. Because of Eve’s sin, it was expected that remorseful women should behave virtuously.
So far, the book’s main question is how manliness and femininity had been prescribed in English society before the mid 19th century. It worth observing religious family enterprises which worked for parochial communities. While people in a parish sought their parochial religious leader’s guidance on living in this world and the world to come, the clergymen and their family members constantly showed how to live as role models. Some influential priests decreed how men and women must behave. Such an effort was often made referring to the Bible.
While quickly reviewing Rendall’s The Origins of Modern Feminism, I noticed Rendall also discussed feminization of evangelical religion. I’ll check how both arguments resemble each other.
Good night.
Hello, Cherry and my precious friends.
Today is another warm and balmy spring day. With my daughter and her family back to her house in Okazaki and my essay finally submitted, I had a break up yesterday afternoon. I went shopping at Sakae with my second daughter after a long interval.
Today I attended a Bible class held at Hiroji church. Lillian, a retired pastor, held the Bible class for us. She used to live in Nagoya but moved to Sendai several years ago. However,she visits Nagoya to meet us once or twice a year
During her short visit, she makes it a rule to hold a Bible class for us.
Today five women including me got together at the Church and enjoyed talking about life after a long time.
April 14, 2009 1:25 AM
Hi, ladies
Today, April 13, is the last day of several consecutive fair days, according to the weather forecast. So, I washed thick sweaters,
Jane Randell’s book, the Origins of Modern Feminism; Women in Britain, France and the United States 1780-1860, shows us points for analytic view. I think it can be applied to cases of Kubushiro Ochimi and Josephine Butler.
……French feminism was to be …… a moderate and bourgeois movement, connected with the republican cause, following ‘a cause of prudence and moderation which might better be described as timidity’, sharply divided from the small groups of feminists within the French socialist movement. (p. 298)
This should be related to the difference in the composition of the French bourgeoisie and the Anglo-American middle classes. (p. 299)
This passages ties to explain the different magnitude of the women’s organizational movement and its effects among Britain, France and the US. Randell attributes the reason why French feminism in the 1850s could not have enlarged women’s participation in the public life as large as those in Britain and the US to the differential patterns of economic growth in France. Since the degree of industrialization remained lower stage in France than that of two Anglo-American countries’, French society, or French bourgeoisie did not need to humanitarian activities by women’s organizations.
As for the women’s movement in the US, the great majority of activists came from middle-class and upper middle-class homes mainly in New England. Randell pointes out three distinct characteristics as the background of those women activists; they had grown up in families often with strong-minded mothers, they could enjoy the higher degree of education, and they had rejected orthodox (especially Calvinist) Protestantism. Quakerism and Unitarianism are their religious background. (p.304) As Alice described, feminization of evangelical religion.
Kubushiro’s father was a Congregational church minister. Kubushiro and her husband attended the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley. The school was established initially by Congregational church, later became the designated school of Methodist and Disciples of Christ. Her whole family worked with American ministers of Methodist, Congregational, Unitarian, Quaker, and Presbyterian Church in Oakland area in the early twentieth-century. Kubushiro’s religious commitment was evangelical faith.
Josephine Butler came did not belong to any specific denomination, but her religious commitment was said to be ecumenical, mythical, and personal one with evangelical spirit. Her all along reliable supporters, Priestman sisters, were Quakers.
Their religious milieu likely allowed them to become conscious of women’s questions, as Radell discusses in the book.
It is getting late. Good night!
Hi Cherry and friends,
I went to see the doctor this afternoon because I have had sore throat and pain in my body last several days. The doctor gave me a prescription for the cold. I took medicine after dinner and I feel a little bit better now.
Cherry, thank you for letting us an interesting TV program Sakano ueno kumo which is going to broadcast this winter. I don’t know about the wars of Nisshin and Nichiro either. Watching this drama seems to be helpful for me understand the history. I will remember to watch the drama.
It is very difficult for me to read Essays on Sex Equality. As soon as I started to read it, I had to struggle against sleepiness or headache. I wonder if it might be caused by the cold or the difficulty of the contents of the copy or both. (???)
Please take care and good night, my precious friends.
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