Hi, ladies!
Today I’d like to write the following story of Kiyoko Endo.
After the failure in her suicide, Endo was forced to quit her temporally job as an English teacher, (she had already resigned from the Denpo tsushinsha at that time) because a newspaper carried an article on the incident.
About 4 months later, writer Homei Iwano visited Endo with the introduction of Utako Imai, asking Endo to live together and to marry him. It seems rather sudden proposal for her, but in fact, she had received some offers from other visitors. Endo refused the request for marriage, but accept sharing the same house without sexual relationship. It was a beginning of her long struggle about love…
It is very strange communications, isn’t it?
So, see you next. Bye for now…
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Hi. Ladies!
Longtime no seen, but I have enjoyed your stories. It is amazing to know your respective colorful lives, Shouen, Sanga and Kiyoko.
Well, today I’d like to introduce one of Aesop stories. I suppose everybody knows this story.
The mice in Council
Once upon a time, the mice were upset by their persecution by the local cat. They called a meeting to decide upon the best means of getting rid of this continual annoyance.
Many plans were discussed and rejected. Finally, a young mouse stood up and proposed that a bell be hung around the cat’s neck. The mice then would be able to hear the cat coming and could escape.
The idea received much applause and was unanimously agreed to. At this point an old mouse, silent thus far, stood up and said that he considered the contrivance most ingenious and that it would no doubt be successful. But he had one short question: “Who would bell the cat?”
“Easier said than done.” My topic of the next essay is about courageous women like the mouse who tried in hanging a bell to the cat. More of this story will be told next time. See you soon.
Hi, everyone
I have some questions.
Who is the first ever recorded DV victim in Japan.
What name is the victim's shelter?
In boarding school days. I was infulenced toward social life. Before the days, I had been influenced by my parents, especially, my father because my mother became disabled after she gave birth to her youngest child. In boarding school, my male and female classmates account for 500 people. Wheter I could go up or down there depended on me. I was naturally attracted to physical training such as dance or basketball. During 4 delightful years, I learned various social movements. In the school, I was the first ever girl who mentioned votes for women. I planed to speak it in public. The practice of speech was not easy. It was becasue other students teased me or made a joke. To rehearse my speech, I had to go to the grave 2 miles away from the school. However, I could convice audience of the indispensability of women's leberation. Discussion and debate followed my speech. As a result, a body of suffrage movement was organized. This time, I was just 14
years old. From next year, I was concerned about political issues. In those days, I had a lot of close freinds. The freindship was now intact.
To be continued.
Can you solve my conundrum?
Who?
Amaterasuoomikami(Who says Tenteradaijin?)
What name of the shelter?
Ama no Iwayato
See you.
Hello, Cherry and ladies.
I'd like to tell you that Japanese paintings gradually became one of the fashionable hobbies in the Taisho era.
During the Meiji period, traditional-style Japanese painting was practiced as part of the education appropriate for the upper-class women. Paining activity was thought as a means of one’s self-refinement and cultivation.
Moreover, it was considered to enhance the virtue of ladies. If women use their knowledge of painting, for example, they are able to entertain and amuse guests endlessly conversing with sophisticated conversation.
Painting classes were taught at the Kazoku jogakko, Peers’ Girls’ school, as part of cultural accomplishments required of their students.
A number of upper-class women began to learn traditional-style of Japanese painting as a respectable and fashionable hobby.
In early Taisho period, Japanese painting became one of the popular hobbies as flower arrangement and tea ceremony among the young women of middle-class families.
Parents rejected Yoga, a Western oil painting as immoral but they accepted a Japanese painting as the indigenous tradition for their daughters to practice.
A professional woman painter such as me appeared to be a safe and ideal teacher to whom parents could entrust their loving daughters because there were no worries and dangers of sexual relationship, which might occur with male teachers.
I took charge of more than twenty students who mostly came from comfortable middle-class backgrounds, but very few intended to become professional painters. Almost ten out of ten stopped painting because of marriage.
However I remembered one woman who seriously intended to become a professional painter. Her name is Kitazawa Eigetsu.
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