HI, ladies!
I am Kiyoko Endo.
I think my attempt suicide might have a great impact on the public as a scandal, but originally I was a strong supporter of women’s right. Before the incident, I used to petition the government for revising of the article 5 of the Public Order and Police Law (Chian keisatsu-ho), cooperating with my mentor Utako Imai.
She was a powerful advocate for the movement in Heiminsha. Though I didn’t like socialism, I had admired Imai very much. From 1905 to 1909, I rushed madly around to change the situation, but all petitions were rejected by the Upper House. I was really disappointed, when I lost my love, as I told before…
My life is full of sensational incidents even after that. See you next.
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Hi, everyone.
In the case of famine and plague, the same conditions are observed. Darth and epidemic are like fire which leaves solid parts intact but burn rotten parts, It spares no new expanded room. It hits impartially men, women, children, the best and the worst. There are many people killed by it though, they are not necessarily the weakest or the undeserved. On the contrary, among the rest of them, there are disastrous causes in many cases more than the killed for the people. The truth of Austria and Russia tells how two nations cope with hundreds of thousands or millions people who have survived from famine and plague will be burdens of society rather than contributors to society.
To be continued
Good evening. I’m Ellen MacRae.
I was also sympathetic to the poor. From October 1890, we started visiting the poverty-stricken area, Asakusa Kameoka cho. We opened a preaching house and I taught at Sunday School there from November. In December, I opened an elementary school for poor children. Although the school was fruitful enough to have 23 students baptized, non-Christian neighbors persecuted us and we moved out in August next year.
Hello, ladies!
Today I’ll ask a question to you respectively, Ellen, Shoen, Utako.
Ellen, please tell me your first impression of Japan and Japanese. Was Japan a poor developing country in the eyes of you, a western woman.
Shoen, you took lessons from three great mentors. I don’t know the apprenticeship of artists at all. Do you have to pay big tuition? One of f my friend, whose work was selected in Nitten several years ago, said that she paid her coach 10000 yen for miner advice for her painting. It took only 15 minutes. I am afraid that the top artists like your mentors surely take large fees or free? I am very interested in such sum of money. There used to be private elementary schools in the Edo period, when some parents paid the tuitions by vegetables and crops. Of course, this was a story for lower class.
Utako, you are the first daughter of your family and your father insisted that you should be a successor of your family, didn’t he? But you married only one son anyway, even though it ended up to divorce. At that time, did you believe that love could conquer tradition?
Thank you, Cosmos.
I vaguely remember how I felt about Japan when I first reached Japan. Before I came to Japan, I sometimes saw pictures of Japan. In my imagination, at that time, Japan was an exotic country. So I was very much looking forward to seeing the country. Yes, indeed. My first impression of Japan was a developing country. Although I met poor people in some area, most people I first met were upper class gentlemen because I worked for a ladies’ school managed by gentlemen. Probably my impression has become more favorable. From a Christian’s point of view, the whole country looked like a place to be saved. Japan was a heathen country.
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