Hi, ladies!
Current news:
Despite a decline in the number of suicides nationwide last year, there was an increase in the number of people in there 20s and 30s who took their own lives. A significant increase was noted in the number of people who committed suicide for motives such as “hardship,” “unemployment,” or “failure to find work,” strongly reflecting the sudden downturn in the economy since autumn last year.
More people in their 50s committed suicide last year than any other 10-year age group. The next largest groups are in their 60s. The total number of suicides by people under 40 years of age rose to 27 percent of the total. The figure for thirtysomethings has risen more than 30 percent since 1998.
...In fact, I have just picked up these articles from the news site, and put them into the blog in order to learn how to express those current issues. I found them so concise and compact.
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Hi, ladies!!!
It has been balmy and mild today, and I enjoyed this pleasant sunny weather all day long. How about you, my precious friends?
I am wondering whether you could write something about your topics for your next essays. Sunflower phoned me this morning, explaining how she was impressed with the strong will and artistic goal of Uemura (??? am I right?) Shoen. According to Sunflower, Shoen was born and raised in Kyoto and concentrated on drawing pictures of Japanese women in a traditional way. Though times changed and a majority of Japanese artists started to produce western style works of art, especially after the end of the Meiji era, Shoen never tried to change her style but stick to the old style of drawing.
But I still don’t know when, how and why she started to create pictures. I really would like Sunflower to explain these to me, preferably in English in this blog.
She also said that it took quite a while to write a message in English in the blog. Hummmm….., all I can say is that the longer we stay away from writing, the more difficult we would find it to write… Oh, dear, dear.
This is a new quiz for you and me. Have fun.
Belgian city goes veggie
13 May 2009
Report
According to (1) United Nations, (2) livestock is responsible for nearly a fifth of (3) global greenhouse gas emissions, so in Ghent, one day (4) week from now will be known as (5) 'veggie day'.
Public officials and politicians will be the first to give up meat for a day; (6) schoolchildren will follow suit in September. It's hoped (7) move will cut Ghent's carbon footprint and help tackle (8) obesity.
Around ninety thousand so called 'veggie street maps' are now being printed to help (9) people find (10) city's vegetarian eateries.
Chris Mason, BBC News, Brussels
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ello, Cherry and my precious friends.
It started to rain from the morning. I'd like to write
Uemura Shoen on this blog. Her Bijinga was so fascinating and to know her life is also as intrigueing as to see her pictures.
I'm going to tell you about Shoen Uemura, with whom I was particularly facinated.
Uemura Shoen was born in the early Meiji period as the second daughter in Kyoto. She did not know her father as he had passed away several months before she appeared.
Shoen’s mother, Naka, managed a tea-leaf shop left by her husband. She chose the way to become an economically independent woman, not remarrying and bringing up her two little daughters by herself. She was a hard-working, strong-willed and loving mother to Shoen.
Shoen was fortunate to have such a mother who had always helped and encouraged her to pave the way for a professional woman painter despite a shower of disagreement from her relatives who criticized it as impractical and useless.
Naka, however, wanted Shoen to practice what she really wanted and adding to it, to study painting formally.
At the age of thirteen, Shoen enrolled in the Kyoto Prefectural School of Painting where she became a student of Suzuki Shonen.
As she desired to paint the figures, he allowed her to visit his private school to study examples of figure paintings in his collections. She was diligent and strong-minded personality so that she frequently visited exhibitions, temples and shrines where she examined, sketched and copied the painting on view.
Hello, Cherry and my precious friends.
I wonder why Shoen never painted a Werstern syle of pictures, sticking to her traditional style of painting.
Shoen loved her hometown and the culture of Kyoto throughout her life although she died in Nara where she was forced to evacuate from Kyoto because of the Pacific War.
After the Meiji Restoration, Kyoto seemed to lose its energy and vigor because of transfer of the capital from Kyoto to Tokyo in 1870. The political and cultural center moved to Tokyo along with the Emperor and Empress, court nobles as well as government officials leaving Kyoto, which made the people in an ancient capital sad and less confidence.
When she was a little girl, she lived in an atmosphere not deeply related with modernization. Ordinary people were unlikely to change their life style so easily despite the government’s calling for modernizing.
Kyoto was the place with the history of thousands years. It was noteworthy that most of people in Kyoto continued the customs of the Edo period.
Dear Cherry and friends
Hello.
Thank you for giving us a well-prepared lecture, Gloriosa.
I once read about a Japanese woman who hates feminist theories because theories were not consistent with her reality. She says, “they say we’re oppressed but I want to argue it’s none of your business.” Now I understand what she meant. Existing feminist theories are not consistent with Japanese women’s reality. Although theories have to be developed according to social reality, any feminist scholars have not yet succeeded to describe the reality of Japanese women, have they?
Well, I got a short article about Miss Hannah Maria Birkenhead. Precisely to say, it does not argue her life itself. All we can find is what her hometown, Stockport, was like. It gives a disappointingly short biography. She came to Japan in 1888, opened Kobe Shoin Jogakko in 1892, departed from Japan in 1893 leaving a letter, went to Canada, married an Irish man in British Columbia 3 years later, and left him soon. No further record is available. I’ll try searching other articles.
Good night.
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