<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6413525424249621925</id><updated>2012-02-08T22:22:49.767+09:00</updated><category term='ショッピングモール、ミスタードーナツ'/><category term='カメハメハ王、イオラニ宮殿'/><category term='ホルス神殿　　　　　　　　　'/><category term='　山崎豊子'/><category term='Chinese characters'/><category term='hotel'/><category term='　Nile cruise'/><category term='口パク　他山の石　楊沛宜　lip-synch'/><category term='フェルメール、ワイングラス'/><category term='Randy'/><category term='mask'/><category term='ハロイーン、仮装、仮面、mask'/><category term='携帯電話、　妨害機　、卒業式'/><category term='battle of nuuanu'/><category term='fox'/><category term='　　'/><category term='swine flue'/><category 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term='ナイルクルーズ、　雨漏り、water leak'/><category term='東北関東大震災、東北大惨事、復興、disaster'/><category term='jammer'/><title type='text'>MAT'S EYE ON THE WORLD 「MATの目」</title><subtitle type='html'>★このブログは私が南山中高等学校男子部の英語教員だったときに英語の副教材として発行していた「日英バイリンガル通信」の継続版です。★第１号は２００２年１１月発行で、当時の生徒は中学１年生でした。通信の最終号（第２９号）は２００８年３月発行で、生徒は持ち上がってきた高校３年生です。★同年３月に退職してからもバイリンガル通信をブログで発行し続け、今日に至っています。</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>Hiroshi Matsuoka</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06861900310456190845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>101</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6413525424249621925.post-6003170570812859272</id><published>2012-02-08T22:11:00.002+09:00</published><updated>2012-02-08T22:22:50.189+09:00</updated><title type='text'>暫定的健常者　TEMPORARY ABLE-BODIED</title><content type='html'>暫定的健常者&lt;br /&gt;　半分水が入っているコップを見て、楽観主義者は「まだ半分ある」と思い、悲観主義者は「もう半分しかない」と思うそうだ▼英語にフィジカリー　チャレンジドという言い回しがある。「身体的に挑戦されている」という意味だ。足が不自由な人は、足がその人に対して「俺と勝負しようじゃないか。俺に勝てるか」と挑みかかっている。その人は「お前なんかに負けてたまるか（「天声新語」応募作品につき、以下読みたい方は、&lt;a href="mailto:mhiroshi62@yahoo.co.jp"&gt;mhiroshi62@yahoo.co.jp&lt;/a&gt;までメールを下さい。）&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　　　　　　　　　　TEMPORARY ABLE-BODIED&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　　Looking at a glass which is half full of water, an opportunist says, “The glass is half full” and the pessimist says, “The glass is half empty.”&lt;br /&gt;  　　There is an English expression to describe a handicapped person as “physically challenged.” It means that he is challenged by, say, an impaired leg. The leg challenges him saying, “Can you compete with me? I don’t think you will win.” He shoots back, “All right. I accept your challenge. I do not mind my limping. I will overcome the disability.” The expression “physically challenged” makes me feel like hearing such an argument. &lt;br /&gt;   　　On the other hand, I deplore the insensitive Japanese expression of shintai-shogai-sha, which is literally translated into “physically obstructed and harmed person.” What a cruel expression! No one wanted to be one. Recently, since the word “gai” (obstruct) gives a negative image, they write “gai” not in hieroglyphic Chinese character (害) but in phonetic character of hiragana (がい), which gives soft and graceful impression. Such a cheap trick, however, shows arrogance of an able-bodied person.&lt;br /&gt;   　　Concerning “able-bodied,” there is an eye-opening expression in English: “temporary able-bodied.” It means that since an able-bodied person might lose his leg in a traffic accident the next day, he is ‘temporarily’ able-bodied. He should be careful not to be too complacent.&lt;br /&gt;   　　Of course, however differently you may describe the same phenomenon, the essence does not change, but a different description may give you a totally different view of the world. I want to live my life with a glass-half-full approach free from stereotypes and with flexible viewpoints.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6413525424249621925-6003170570812859272?l=matseye.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/feeds/6003170570812859272/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2012/02/temporary-able-bodied.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/6003170570812859272'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/6003170570812859272'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2012/02/temporary-able-bodied.html' title='暫定的健常者　TEMPORARY ABLE-BODIED'/><author><name>Hiroshi Matsuoka</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06861900310456190845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6413525424249621925.post-1646491673423447087</id><published>2012-02-01T20:15:00.012+09:00</published><updated>2012-02-08T22:10:57.556+09:00</updated><title type='text'>人生のもう一つの楽しみ方　ANOTHER WAY TO ENJOY LIFE</title><content type='html'>一昨日変な夢を見た。一日の仕事を終えて学校の門を出ると、元の教え子が私を待っていた。顔がはっきりしないが、確かに私の教え子だ。&lt;br /&gt;「先生、車で家まで送りますよ」と教え子が言う。&lt;br /&gt;「それは、済まない」と言って教え子の後について行く。すぐに緑色の簡易トイレのところに来る。高さが２メートルで奥行きが１メートルぐらいある。&lt;br /&gt;「先生、乗って下さい」と教え子が言う。&lt;br /&gt;　はて、どこかで乗ったことがあるような簡易トイレだと思いつつ、中に入る。教え子はトイレの内側に備え付けてある棚に座っている。私はトイレの中に立つ。トイレの底に斜めになった長方形の木製の踏み板がある。私は踏み板の持ちあがった部分を足で押す。すると、トイレが地面から浮いて前進しだす。&lt;br /&gt;「先生、運転うまいっすよ」と教え子が言う。&lt;br /&gt;　トイレは地面から１０センチぐらい浮いた状態で白い広い道を走る。右に曲がるには身体を右に傾ければ良い。板を踏み込めばスピードが上がる。&lt;br /&gt;　やがて、トイレは道から外れて道沿いの池の上を飛ぶ。池の周りに木が生えている。池の上を飛んでいる簡易トイレが見える。怖くなって私は身体を大きく左に傾ける。トイレは大きくカーブして長い白い大きな道に戻って、ずんずん進んでいく。なんて愉快なんだ。&lt;br /&gt;　ここで、残念、目が覚めた。&lt;br /&gt;　朝、女房に夢の話をしたら「羨ましいわね、夢でも人生を楽しんでるって」と言った。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　　　　　　　　ANOTHER　WAY　TO ENJOY LIFE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;      　　The day before yesterday I dreamed a strange dream. When I come out of the school after a day’s work, one of my ex-students, whose face I do not recognize, is waiting for me.&lt;br /&gt;　　“I will drive you home, Mr. Matsuoka,” he says.&lt;br /&gt;　　“Thank you,” I say and follow him. Soon we come to a porta potty about 2 meters tall and one meter deep.&lt;br /&gt;　　“Please take a ride in it,” he says.&lt;br /&gt;　　Remembering that I have driven this kind of toilet before, I step in it. The ex-student sits on the shelf inside the toilet and I stand on the bottom. There is a beveled rectangle wooden pedal on the bottom. I push it with my foot and the toilet floats and moves forward.&lt;br /&gt;　　“You’re good at driving,” he says.&lt;br /&gt;　　The toilet runs along a wide white road about 10 centimeters above the ground. To turn right, all I have to do is just lean my body to the right. To gain speed, I just push the pedal hard.&lt;br /&gt;　　Soon the toilet deviates from the road and flies above a pond surrounded by trees alongside the road. I see the toilet flying over the pond from outside it. Feeling scared, I lean left hard to put the toilet back on the road. After a long curve, I succeed in getting it back on the track. Then I continue driving the toilet on a long white wide road. What fun it is to ride in a toilet!&lt;br /&gt;　　Then I awake, to my disappointment.&lt;br /&gt;　　The next morning when I talked about the dream to my wife, she said, “I envy you. You are enjoying life even in a dream.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6413525424249621925-1646491673423447087?l=matseye.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/feeds/1646491673423447087/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2012/02/blog-post.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/1646491673423447087'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/1646491673423447087'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2012/02/blog-post.html' title='人生のもう一つの楽しみ方　ANOTHER WAY TO ENJOY LIFE'/><author><name>Hiroshi Matsuoka</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06861900310456190845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6413525424249621925.post-4095449948704160580</id><published>2012-01-15T13:26:00.011+09:00</published><updated>2012-01-25T21:58:01.858+09:00</updated><title type='text'>次の１０年　NEXT 10 YEARS</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;以下の日本語のエッセーは、Asahi　Weeklyの英文エッセーコンテストで最優秀賞を受賞した英文(このブログの後半に掲載）を翻訳したものです。&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   　　　 次の１０年&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　私は６８歳ですが、父も祖父も７８歳で亡くなっていますから、遺伝子的に言うと余命１０年です。光陰矢の如し。１０年はあっという間です。矢が飛んでいるうちに３つの事をしたいと思います。杖道に熟達すること。本を読むこと。英語の短編小説を世に出すことです。&lt;br /&gt;　神道夢想流杖道は３００年受け継がれてきた古武道です。杖は長さが1メートル２０センチで、敵を打ったり突いたりする武器です。今まで２０年間稽古していますが、正確に杖を振ることができません。６４の型を全部習得するにはさらに２０年はかかるでしょう。毎日稽古に励むつもりです。&lt;br /&gt;　次に、多くの本を読みたいと思います。英語教師を６５歳で退職するまで教材作りに時間を費やしていましたが、今は時間が十分あり、古今の日本語、英語の作品を多く読みたいと思います。中でも陳舜臣、東野圭吾、ディケンズ、ポー、チェコフは面白い。文字を拡大できるキンドル電子ブックのおかげで、１０年後でも読書を楽しむ事ができると思います。&lt;br /&gt;   　３つ目は、英語の短編小説の出版です。感動的でユーモアのある短編です。このため２つ講座を受講しています。日本語の「短編を読む・書く」という講座と英語の「クリエイティブ・ライティング」という講座です。日本語の講座では受講生が著名作家や受講生自身が書いた作品を批評し合います。おかげで、同じ短編を色々な視点からみることができます。ライティング講座では英作文力を磨いています。これまで、日本語と英語の短編コンテストに数回応募しましたが入賞したことはありません。私の作品が認められるのは数年先かと思いますが、「ローマは一日にして成らず」の精神で書き続けるつもりです。&lt;br /&gt;　私は楽観主義です。杖道の稽古を続けている限り、健康を維持できると思いますし、目標に向かって、読んだり書いたりしている限り、頭は回転していると思います。きっと父や祖父よりも長生きするでしょう。&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE NEXT TEN YEARS&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;　　I am 68 years old. In terms of my DNA, probably I have only ten years to live because both my father and grandfather died at the age of 78. The ten years will fly like an arrow. Therefore, while the arrow is flying, I want to accomplish three things: to master the Japanese martial art of Jodo; to read many books; and to publish my short stories in English.&lt;br /&gt;　　Jodo (stick way) is a 300-year-old Japanese martial art. Jo is a 1.2 meter-long round stick, which functions as a weapon to strike or spear your enemy with. I have been practicing Jodo for 20 years, but I cannot wield a Jo correctly. I am afraid it will take another 20 years to master all the 64 techniques, but I will keep practicing it every day.&lt;br /&gt;   　Next, I want to read as many books as possible. Until I retired from my career as an English teacher at the age of 65, I had spent most of my time preparing for my classes. Now that I have plenty of leisure time, I want to read as many Japanese and English books as possible, both classical and modern. I am especially interested in reading the works of Chin Shun Shin, Keigo Higashino, Dickens, Poe, and Chekhov. I will enjoy reading even ten years later thanks to the Kindle e-Reader, which allows me to increase the font size.&lt;br /&gt;   　The third goal is to publish my short stories in English. I want them to be moving and humorous. I attend two classes for this purpose: one is a Japanese short story reading and writing class and the other is an English creative writing class. In the Japanese class, the students comments on the short stories written by well-known authors or by the students. They are helpful for viewing the same story from different perspectives. The creative writing class also helps me brush up my English writing ability. I have applied for several short story contests both in Japanese and English, but I have not yet won a prize. It will take years before my works are recognized, but as Rome was not built in a day, I will keep writing.&lt;br /&gt;     　I take a glass-half-full approach about my life. As long as I practice Jodo, I can stay healthy. And as long as I keep reading and writing aiming at my goals, my brain will work. I am sure I will survive my father and grandfather.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6413525424249621925-4095449948704160580?l=matseye.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/feeds/4095449948704160580/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2012/01/1-next-ten-years-i-am-68-years-old.html#comment-form' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/4095449948704160580'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/4095449948704160580'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2012/01/1-next-ten-years-i-am-68-years-old.html' title='次の１０年　NEXT 10 YEARS'/><author><name>Hiroshi Matsuoka</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06861900310456190845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6413525424249621925.post-2210873565635335585</id><published>2011-12-31T22:02:00.012+09:00</published><updated>2012-01-11T22:09:33.059+09:00</updated><title type='text'>クロバタキはクロパトキン　KUROBATAKI WAS KUROPATKIN</title><content type='html'>わたしがまだ小さい子供の頃、変な「しりとり」を覚えました。誰から覚えたのか分かりませんが、多分、父親からか親戚の人からだと思います。「しりとり」は以下のようなもので、今でも覚えています。&lt;br /&gt;スルメ→メジロ→ロシヤ→野蛮国→クロバタキ→きんた＊→マカロフ→ふんどし→しめた→タカジャッポ→ポンヤリ→陸軍の→乃木さんが→凱旋す→スルメ→（最初へ）&lt;br /&gt;　この「しりとり」で、クロバタキとは何のことか分かりませんでしたが、最近「坂の上の雲」というＮＨＫの番組を見て分かりました。クロバタキは日露戦争当時のロシア満州軍総司令官だったのです。だから「しりとり」で、「陸軍の」とか「乃木さんが」とか「ロシヤ」という言葉が出てくるのです。マカロフは日露戦争の時の太平洋艦隊司令長官だったこともわかりました。まだわからないのはタカジャッポとポンヤリですが、多分日露戦争に関係のある言葉だと思います。もし「坂の上の雲」を見ていなかったら、この「しりとり」の意味が分からないままだったと思います。&lt;br /&gt;それにしても、小さいころに覚えた事柄が、６８歳の現在まで覚えているとは不思議なことです。&lt;br /&gt;　もう一つ今でも覚えているのは、高校一年の時に世界史の時に暗記した中国の王朝の名前です。今でもすらすら言えます。&lt;br /&gt;夏―殷―周―秦―前漢―新―後漢―三国―西晋―東晋―隋―唐―五代―北宋―南宋―元―明－清―中華民国―中国&lt;br /&gt;これは今までいろいろな場面で役立ってきました。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;KUROBATAKI MEANS KUROPATKIN&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　　&lt;br /&gt;I still remember a chain of words made up of “last and first,” which I learned when I was a small child. Probably my father or uncle taught it to me. It goes:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;surume (dried cuttlefish) →mejiro (white eye)→roshiya (Russia) →yabankoku (a barbarian country)→kurobataki→kinta-- (balls)→makarofu→fundoshi (loincloth)→shimeta (tightened)→takajappo→ponyari→rikugunno (army) → nogisanga (General Nogi)→gaisensu (return with glory)→the first word of surume&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   I did not know the meaning of kurobataki until recently when I watched an NHK television program of “Sakano-ueno-kumo” (Clouds above the Hill), which featured the Meiji-era Japan focusing on the Sino-Japanese War (1894-5) and the Russo-Japanese War (1904-5). I found kurobataki was the name of the Commander of Russian Manchurian Army, Aleksey Kuropatkin, during the Russo-Japanese War. That is why the chain words include such war-connected words as rikugunno, nogisanga, and gaisensu. I also learned that makarofu was the name of the Pacific Fleet Commander Admiral, Stepan Makarov. If I had not watched the TV program, I would not have found these facts. The program at last revealed the meanings of the unknown words after dozens of years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; 　　Another thing I still remember is the names of Chinese dynasties. I can recite them easily:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Xia―Yin―Zho―Zhou―Western Han―Xi―Eastern Han―Three Kingdoms―Western Jin―Eastern JinーSui―Tang―Five Dynastie―Southern Song―Yuan―Ming－Qing―Republic of China―People's Republic of China&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  　　They helped me a lot in various occasions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PS:&lt;br /&gt;According to a website, takajappo and ponyari mean taka-shappo (high hat) and bonyari (absent-minded) respectively, but I doubt it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HAIKU&lt;br /&gt;the boyhood day&lt;br /&gt;connected with today&lt;br /&gt;mystery&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6413525424249621925-2210873565635335585?l=matseye.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/feeds/2210873565635335585/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2011/12/kurobataki-was-kuropatkin.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/2210873565635335585'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/2210873565635335585'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2011/12/kurobataki-was-kuropatkin.html' title='クロバタキはクロパトキン　KUROBATAKI WAS KUROPATKIN'/><author><name>Hiroshi Matsuoka</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06861900310456190845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6413525424249621925.post-6764857945061649703</id><published>2011-12-22T21:54:00.012+09:00</published><updated>2012-01-25T22:56:40.056+09:00</updated><title type='text'>一本松さん　ありがとう THANK YOU, THE PINE TREE</title><content type='html'>&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 301px; height: 232px; text-align: center; display: block; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5688942663453034114" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3YR4MaHGr7Y/TvMvNgquxoI/AAAAAAAAAoY/eY0u0M6eAEY/s400/images4.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;            　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　一本松よ　ありがとう&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;心ささえた 九ヶ月　&lt;br /&gt;一本松よ ありがとう&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;７万本の 松林&lt;br /&gt;一本残して 流されぬ&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;一本だけの 松なれど&lt;br /&gt;多くの人に 元気をくれぬ&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;３００年 共に育った&lt;br /&gt;仲間と別れ 孤高を耐えぬ&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;「最後の一葉」 少女を救い&lt;br /&gt;一本松は 皆を救いぬ&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ひょろ長さんよ ありがとう&lt;br /&gt;お前の事は 我ら忘れぬ&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;お前の生んだ 松ぽっくり&lt;br /&gt;１８本の 若木が育ち&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;３００年後 若木が作る&lt;br /&gt;以前と同じ 松の森&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;         THANK YOU, PINE TREE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 301px; height: 232px; text-align: center; display: block; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5688942663453034114" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3YR4MaHGr7Y/TvMvNgquxoI/AAAAAAAAAoY/eY0u0M6eAEY/s400/images4.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;the Tohoku Tsunami&lt;br /&gt;washed away&lt;br /&gt;70,000 pine trees&lt;br /&gt;except one&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the beautiful scenery&lt;br /&gt;suddenly changed into&lt;br /&gt;a desolate beach&lt;br /&gt;leaving one miraculous tree&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;after nine months&lt;br /&gt;you, the last pine tree&lt;br /&gt;you, the guardian deity&lt;br /&gt;are now dying&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you have encouraged&lt;br /&gt;thousands of victims&lt;br /&gt;as O' Henry’s "The Last Leaf"&lt;br /&gt;encouraged the girl&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you must have been&lt;br /&gt;lonely, too, parting with&lt;br /&gt;the trees that grew&lt;br /&gt;for 270 years together&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;seeing that&lt;br /&gt;the Tohoku people&lt;br /&gt;are recovering&lt;br /&gt;you are joining your friends&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;thank you, pine tree&lt;br /&gt;your slender tall figure&lt;br /&gt;all the Japanese people&lt;br /&gt;will never forget you&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;your pine cones&lt;br /&gt;have given new life&lt;br /&gt;18 baby trees&lt;br /&gt;are now growing&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;they will make&lt;br /&gt;as large a forest&lt;br /&gt;270 years later&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;from now &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6413525424249621925-6764857945061649703?l=matseye.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/feeds/6764857945061649703/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2011/12/thank-you-pine-tree-tohoku-tsunami.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/6764857945061649703'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/6764857945061649703'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2011/12/thank-you-pine-tree-tohoku-tsunami.html' title='一本松さん　ありがとう THANK YOU, THE PINE TREE'/><author><name>Hiroshi Matsuoka</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06861900310456190845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3YR4MaHGr7Y/TvMvNgquxoI/AAAAAAAAAoY/eY0u0M6eAEY/s72-c/images4.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6413525424249621925.post-2954366395715033076</id><published>2011-11-29T22:53:00.003+09:00</published><updated>2012-02-05T14:01:08.010+09:00</updated><title type='text'>動物と話す女性 THE STORY OF MS. DOLITTLE</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: left;" dir="ltr" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;　先日、犬と話ができる女性を特集したテレビ番組を見て驚きました。まるでドリトル先生の女性版です。彼女はハイジという名前で３５歳前後。　&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;　ハイジが話した犬は老衰で死にかけており、後ろ足がないため立つことができませんでした。その飼い主は４年前、雨の日に道端に横たわっている犬を見つけて、可愛そうに思い、家に持って帰って世話をしてきました。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;最近、この犬が変な遠吠えをして何か言いたそうなのです。そこで飼い主はハイジに犬が何を言おうとしているのか尋ねることにしました。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;ハイジは犬をじっと見てからおもむろに、&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;　「このワンちゃんは、最初は男の人に飼われていたのですが、交通事故で後ろ足を亡くしてから道端に捨てられたのですよ」&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;　と言いました。（なんというひどい男！）&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;運良く、ワンちゃんは雨の日に偶然別の男の人に拾われたのです。新しい飼い主は後ろ足の代わりになるように車椅子を作ってやりました。ワンちゃんはとても喜んで走り回りました。また家族ぐるみで可愛がられました。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;ハイジによると、犬が言いたかったことは次のようなことでした。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;「私は歳を取り、弱っていてもう長く生きられませんが、死ぬ前に私を拾ってくださったあなたにありがとうと言いたいのです」&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;　犬の最後の言葉を聞いて飼い主も奥さんも子供達もすすり泣きました。（なんて優しい家族なのでしょう）&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ハイジは&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;もう一匹の犬とも話しましたが、この犬も弱々しく痩せていました。飼い主はなぜこんなに衰弱し食欲がなくなってしまったのか知りたいと思いました。ハイジは精神を犬に集中し、次のように言いました。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;　「このワンちゃんは、世話をしてくれた女の子がいなくなって寂しく思っているのです」&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;　実は、女の子は一年前１０歳で亡くなっており、今は３歳の妹が犬の世話をしていました。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;　ハイジは続けて、&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;　「ワンちゃんは、自分が亡くなった姉さんの代わりで、妹を守らなければならないという責任感を持っています。妹の寂しい気持ちが分かるのです。姉さんが死んだとき妹はまだ２歳で、死ぬということの意味がまだ分からなかったのですが、３歳になって、もう姉が戻ってこないことが分かるようになったのです。ワンちゃんは妹のことを自分のことのように気の毒に思っているのです。ところで、このワンちゃん、亡くなった姉さんが気に入っていた何か茶色で柔らかいものを今欲しがっていますよ。何だか分かりますか」&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;　すぐに、飼い主のお父さんは茶色のぬいぐるみのクマを持ってきました。ワンちゃんはぬいぐるみに飛びつき、鼻をこすりつけ尻尾を振りました。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;ハイジは犬だけでなく、魚類、アザラシ、象などとも話ができます。また若いころは警官で、多くの犯罪者の隠れ家を見つけて表彰されました。恐らく犬や猫に隠れ家を聞いたのでしょう。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;なぜハイジが動物の気持ちが分かるのか不思議ですが、もし私が動物と話せたら世の中まるっきり違うことでしょう。ドリトル先生は単に空想世界の住人ではなく、現にこの世にいるのです。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;" dir="ltr" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;em&gt;　　　あちこちで&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;em&gt;　　　地球を汚さないでと&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;em&gt;　　　動物の声&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;?xml:namespace prefix = o /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;" dir="ltr" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE STORY OF MS. DOLITTLE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　　The other day I was amazed at a TV program featuring a woman who talked with two&lt;br /&gt;dogs. She is an American named Heidi, around 35 years old.&lt;br /&gt;   The first dog she talked to was an old dying dog which was unable to stand because&lt;br /&gt;it had no hind legs. The dog’s owner said that he found it lying by the&lt;br /&gt;roadside on a rainy day four years before. He had felt so sorry for it that he&lt;br /&gt;brought it home and took care of him.&lt;br /&gt;　　Recently the owner noticed the dog’s queer howling. It sounded like it&lt;br /&gt;wanted to say something to him. The owner wanted to understand the dog’s&lt;br /&gt;feelings. So, he asked Heidi about it.&lt;br /&gt;　　After watching the dog for a few seconds, Heidi said that the dog had&lt;br /&gt;been first owned by a man, who took a good care of it, but that after the dog&lt;br /&gt;had lost his hind legs in a traffic accident, he discarded it on the roadside.&lt;br /&gt;(How cruel he was!) Luckily, however, it so happened that the dog was picked up&lt;br /&gt;by another man on a rainy day. The new owner made a wheel chair that&lt;br /&gt;substituted for its hind legs. The dog ran and ran happily. His whole family&lt;br /&gt;took a good care of him.&lt;br /&gt;　　According to Heidi, what the dog wanted to say was: “I became so old and&lt;br /&gt;weak. I have only a short time to live. Before I die, I want to convey my&lt;br /&gt;heartfelt thanks to you for picking me up and making a wheel chair.” The owner,&lt;br /&gt;his wife, and children sobbed to hear the dog’s last words. (What kind people&lt;br /&gt;they are!)&lt;br /&gt;   　　The second dog was also sick and skinny. The owner asked Heidi why the dog had&lt;br /&gt;become so feeble and had no appetite. After concentrating on the dog, Heidi&lt;br /&gt;said, “The dog misses the girl who took care of her.” The girl had died at the&lt;br /&gt;age of ten a year before and now her younger sister aged three was taking care&lt;br /&gt;of the dog. Heidi said, “The dog feels as if it were a substitute for the&lt;br /&gt;deceased sister. It feels a sense of responsibility to protect the younger&lt;br /&gt;sister. It understands the younger sister’s lonely feelings. When her elder&lt;br /&gt;sister died, she was only two years old and did not know the meaning of death,&lt;br /&gt;but now that she is three she understands that her sister will never come back.&lt;br /&gt;The dog feels very sorry for the younger sister. By the way, it wants something&lt;br /&gt;soft and brown that the deceased girl loved. Do you understand what it is?” The&lt;br /&gt;owner brought a brown Teddy bear. The dog jumped to it and pressed its nose&lt;br /&gt;hard against it and sniffed it wagging its tail.&lt;br /&gt;   　　Besides being able to talk to dogs, Heidi can talk to fish, sea lions, elephants and&lt;br /&gt;other dogs. When she was young, she was a policewoman. She received an award&lt;br /&gt;because she had found many criminals’ hiding places. She must have asked the&lt;br /&gt;dogs and cats where they were.&lt;br /&gt;   　　I do not understand why and how she can understand animals’ feelings. How&lt;br /&gt;different the world would be if I could communicate with animals. Dr. Dolittle&lt;br /&gt;is not a fantasy character; we have Ms. Dolittle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　　　don’t pollute the earth&lt;br /&gt;　　　complaints of animals&lt;br /&gt;　　　all over the world&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;" dir="ltr" trbidi="on"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6413525424249621925-2954366395715033076?l=matseye.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/feeds/2954366395715033076/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2011/11/story-of-ms-dolittle.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/2954366395715033076'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/2954366395715033076'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2011/11/story-of-ms-dolittle.html' title='動物と話す女性 THE STORY OF MS. DOLITTLE'/><author><name>Hiroshi Matsuoka</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06861900310456190845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6413525424249621925.post-4544934428472296427</id><published>2011-11-25T15:09:00.008+09:00</published><updated>2012-01-12T18:22:17.465+09:00</updated><title type='text'>阿蘇の涅槃像　BUDDHA ON MT. ASO</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: left;" dir="ltr" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; text-indent: 17.65pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.47;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;阿蘇の涅槃像&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; text-indent: 17.65pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.47;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; clear: both;" class="separator"&gt;&lt;a style="margin-right: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-15SgQrYjmOY/Ts8wg3__qZI/AAAAAAAAAoA/GoTvXX6d478/s1600/imagesCAXSI5KT.jpg" imageanchor="1"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-15SgQrYjmOY/Ts8wg3__qZI/AAAAAAAAAoA/GoTvXX6d478/s400/imagesCAXSI5KT.jpg" width="400" height="204" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; text-indent: 17.65pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.47;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; text-indent: 17.65pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.47;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;11&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;月&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;11&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;日、女房と阿蘇に行き、運良く雲海に横たわるお釈迦様の涅槃像を見ることができた。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;?xml:namespace prefix = o /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;　阿蘇は、周りが&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;120&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;キロもある世界最大級のカルデラがあり、外輪山の中央に阿蘇五岳がそびえている。霧が立ち込めた朝、外輪山の北側の展望地点から五岳を見ると、五岳がまるで雲海に仰向けに横たわっている涅槃像のように見える。ギザギザの根子岳は釈迦の横顔に見え、高い高岳は胸で、丸い中岳は腹、烏帽子岳と杵島岳は脚と足というわけである。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;　観光バスの運転手もバスガイドもこんな景色はめったに見られないと言っていた。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 17.65pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.47;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;もう少し&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;鼻が高けりゃ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;言うことなし&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  ***********************************&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; text-indent: 173.65pt; mso-char-indent-count: 14.47;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;BUDDHA ON MT. ASO&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; text-indent: 173.65pt; mso-char-indent-count: 14.47;" class="MsoNormal"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; text-indent: 173.65pt; mso-char-indent-count: 14.47;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;I visited Mt. Aso with my wife on November 11. Luckily we had a chance to see “Buddha” lying on his back above the clouds.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;　　Mt. Aso has one of the largest caldera in the world with a circumference of around 120 km. In the center of the somma enclosing the caldera stand five mountains. When you look at the mountains from a viewpoint of the north somma on a foggy morning, they look like a profile of Buddha lying on his back above the sea of clouds filling the caldera. Jaggy Mt. Nekodake forms Buddha’s head; high Mt. Taka, forms his chest, round Mt. Naka, his belly; and the other mountains, Mt. Eboshi, and Mt. Kishima, legs and feet. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;　　Both the sightseeing bus driver and the tourist guide said that it was quite rare to see such a beautiful supine Buddha.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;it would be perfect&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;if the nose were &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;a little higher&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6413525424249621925-4544934428472296427?l=matseye.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/feeds/4544934428472296427/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2011/11/buddha-in-mt-aso.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/4544934428472296427'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/4544934428472296427'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2011/11/buddha-in-mt-aso.html' title='阿蘇の涅槃像　BUDDHA ON MT. ASO'/><author><name>Hiroshi Matsuoka</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06861900310456190845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-15SgQrYjmOY/Ts8wg3__qZI/AAAAAAAAAoA/GoTvXX6d478/s72-c/imagesCAXSI5KT.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6413525424249621925.post-6509759923222486569</id><published>2011-10-30T22:52:00.006+09:00</published><updated>2011-11-25T14:33:40.548+09:00</updated><title type='text'>北斎と借景　BORROWING BACKGROUND VIEW &amp; HOKUSAI</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　北斎と借景&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QNrSN7DDA0o/TridGq5QxiI/AAAAAAAAAmw/o1O7XhazWtw/s1600/500x500-20485760.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QNrSN7DDA0o/TridGq5QxiI/AAAAAAAAAmw/o1O7XhazWtw/s320/500x500-20485760.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt 5.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; mso-outline-level: 3; mso-para-margin-bottom: .0001pt; mso-para-margin-left: .5gd; mso-para-margin-right: 0mm; mso-para-margin-top: 0mm; text-align: justify; 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&lt;/o:lock&gt;&lt;/v:path&gt;&lt;/v:stroke&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/v:shapetype&gt;&lt;v:shape id="_x0000_s1030" style="height: 146.25pt; left: 0px; margin-left: 5.45pt; margin-top: 0.65pt; position: absolute; text-align: left; visibility: visible; width: 219.85pt; z-index: -4;" type="#_x0000_t75" wrapcoords="-147 0 -147 21489 21664 21489 21664 0 -147 0"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;v:imagedata o:title="500x500-20485760" src="file:///C:\Users\HIROSH~1\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image001.jpg"&gt;  &lt;w:wrap type="tight"&gt; &lt;/w:wrap&gt;&lt;/v:imagedata&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/v:shape&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"&gt;借景という言葉は京都の龍安寺の石庭を描写するときによく使われます。龍安寺は幅２２メートル奥行き１０メートルの土壁に囲まれた枯山水の庭で、箒目を付けた白砂と１５個の石があるだけです。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt 5.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; mso-outline-level: 3; mso-para-margin-bottom: .0001pt; mso-para-margin-left: .5gd; mso-para-margin-right: 0mm; mso-para-margin-top: 0mm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"&gt;縁側から庭を眺めるとあたかも白砂が海で石が山のように見えます。庭の色調は土壁にマッチしています。視線を上げると、土壁の背景に沢山の高い木々が茂っています。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt 5.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; mso-outline-level: 3; mso-para-margin-bottom: .0001pt; mso-para-margin-left: .5gd; mso-para-margin-right: 0mm; mso-para-margin-top: 0mm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"&gt;庭師は庭を造るとき背景の木の景色を計算に入れていたのです。この庭は背景の木の景色を「借用」しているのです。だから、龍安寺の庭は「借景」の庭だと言われるのです。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt 5.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; mso-outline-level: 3; mso-para-margin-bottom: .0001pt; mso-para-margin-left: .5gd; mso-para-margin-right: 0mm; mso-para-margin-top: 0mm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"&gt;　&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"&gt;馬鹿なロバ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"&gt;狐に正体&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"&gt;見破られ（イソップ）&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt 5.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; mso-outline-level: 3; mso-para-margin-bottom: .0001pt; mso-para-margin-left: .5gd; mso-para-margin-right: 0mm; mso-para-margin-top: 0mm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"&gt;&lt;v:shape id="_x0000_s1031" style="height: 155.25pt; left: 0px; margin-left: 9.45pt; margin-top: 17.35pt; position: absolute; text-align: left; visibility: visible; width: 194.1pt; z-index: -3;" type="#_x0000_t75" wrapcoords="-167 0 -167 21496 21533 21496 21533 0 -167 0"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;v:imagedata o:title="towa2_02" src="file:///C:\Users\HIROSH~1\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image002.jpg"&gt;  &lt;w:wrap type="tight"&gt; &lt;/w:wrap&gt;&lt;/v:imagedata&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/v:shape&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xvagr8Ibq6Y/TrieNRdefyI/AAAAAAAAAnQ/ETt2Xq0jOqc/s1600/image.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xvagr8Ibq6Y/TrieNRdefyI/AAAAAAAAAnQ/ETt2Xq0jOqc/s1600/image.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt 5.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; mso-outline-level: 3; mso-para-margin-bottom: .0001pt; mso-para-margin-left: .5gd; mso-para-margin-right: 0mm; mso-para-margin-top: 0mm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"&gt;借景のひどい例が名古屋にあります。白鳥庭園です。広い庭園で、池が３つ、川、滝、茶室、レストランがあり木々が茂って花が咲いています。池のほとりを歩くと、まるで森の中を歩いているような気になります。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt 5.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; mso-outline-level: 3; mso-para-margin-bottom: .0001pt; mso-para-margin-left: .5gd; mso-para-margin-right: 0mm; mso-para-margin-top: 0mm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"&gt;しかし、残念なことに、庭園のすぐ隣に２２階建てのマンションがそびえています。庭園から北方を眺めますと、否が応でもマンションが目に入ります。マンションは伝統的な日本庭園にはマッチしません。自然の懐に抱かれた気分を害します。だから私はレストランでお茶を飲むときは、いつも不快なマンションを背にして座ります。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 1em 0px 0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-outline-level: 3; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"&gt;マンションの&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"&gt;住人、庭が&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"&gt;お気に入り&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JHrkhY4CohU/Trid0UPYEvI/AAAAAAAAAm4/A3jOHPmWzzs/s1600/11337019.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="225" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JHrkhY4CohU/Trid0UPYEvI/AAAAAAAAAm4/A3jOHPmWzzs/s320/11337019.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt 5.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; mso-outline-level: 3; mso-para-margin-bottom: .0001pt; mso-para-margin-left: .5gd; mso-para-margin-right: 0mm; mso-para-margin-top: 0mm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"&gt;&lt;v:shape id="_x0000_s1032" style="height: 174pt; left: 0px; margin-left: 3.3pt; margin-top: 4.5pt; position: absolute; text-align: left; width: 246.85pt; z-index: -2;" type="#_x0000_t75" wrapcoords="-66 0 -66 21507 21600 21507 21600 0 -66 0"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;v:imagedata o:title="11337019" src="file:///C:\Users\HIROSH~1\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image003.jpg"&gt;  &lt;w:wrap type="tight"&gt; &lt;/w:wrap&gt;&lt;/v:imagedata&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/v:shape&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"&gt;しかし、素晴らしい借景もあります。日光東照宮の陽明門です。１９９９年に世界遺産に指定された３７５年前の建造物で、徳川家康を権現化しています。夜中に陽明門の正面に立って門を見ると門の真ん中の真上に北極星が見えます。陽明門は北極星を借景にしているのです。家康は江戸幕府を北極星のように不動の霊魂として守護したいと思ったのです。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt 5.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; mso-outline-level: 3; mso-para-margin-bottom: .0001pt; mso-para-margin-left: .5gd; mso-para-margin-right: 0mm; mso-para-margin-top: 0mm; text-align: center; text-indent: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"&gt;着陸船&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"&gt;後ろに見ゆるは&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"&gt;青い地球&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt 5.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; mso-outline-level: 3; mso-para-margin-bottom: .0001pt; mso-para-margin-left: .5gd; mso-para-margin-right: 0mm; mso-para-margin-top: 0mm; text-align: center; text-indent: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-A1w8FkY8Szk/TrieEFK9D0I/AAAAAAAAAnI/kAbp77m296k/s1600/kbi_art_no020_01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-A1w8FkY8Szk/TrieEFK9D0I/AAAAAAAAAnI/kAbp77m296k/s320/kbi_art_no020_01.jpg" width="318" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt 5.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; mso-outline-level: 3; mso-para-margin-bottom: .0001pt; mso-para-margin-left: .5gd; mso-para-margin-right: 0mm; mso-para-margin-top: 0mm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"&gt;&lt;v:shape id="_x0000_s1033" style="height: 197.25pt; left: 0px; margin-left: 8.5pt; margin-top: 0.15pt; position: absolute; text-align: left; visibility: visible; width: 196.5pt; z-index: -1;" type="#_x0000_t75" wrapcoords="-165 0 -165 21518 21600 21518 21600 0 -165 0"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;v:imagedata o:title="kbi_art_no020_01" src="file:///C:\Users\HIROSH~1\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image004.jpg"&gt;  &lt;w:wrap type="tight"&gt; &lt;/w:wrap&gt;&lt;/v:imagedata&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/v:shape&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"&gt;借景のもう一つの素晴らしい例は葛飾北斎が描いた屋台の天井画です。北斎は&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA;"&gt;19&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"&gt;世紀の画家でモネやルノワールに影響を与えています。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt 5.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; mso-outline-level: 3; mso-para-margin-bottom: .0001pt; mso-para-margin-left: .5gd; mso-para-margin-right: 0mm; mso-para-margin-top: 0mm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"&gt;天井画は、一メートル四方の絵画で、海に渦巻く波を描いており、飛沫が一面に飛び散っています。絵を見ていると、荒波が砕ける音が聞こえ、目が眩むようです。感嘆するのは波の先端です。先端は子供の掌のようで、全ての指が曲がっており、見ていると海に引きこまれそうです。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt 5.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; mso-outline-level: 3; mso-para-margin-bottom: .0001pt; mso-para-margin-left: .5gd; mso-para-margin-right: 0mm; mso-para-margin-top: 0mm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"&gt;先日ＮＨＫテレビで北斎の天井画が特集されました。解説者は、北斎は「波と海」を描いたのではなく、「波と空」を描いたと言っていました。実は北斎は海面の視点から夜空を描いたのです。海のように見えるのは空で、飛沫のように見えるのは星なのです。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt 5.5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; mso-outline-level: 3; mso-para-margin-bottom: .0001pt; mso-para-margin-left: .5gd; mso-para-margin-right: 0mm; mso-para-margin-top: 0mm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"&gt;北斎が天井画を頼まれた時、天井を空と見たてたのです。北斎は、天井画を見る人が空を見上げていると思うように考えたのです。天井を見て海を想像するのはちぐはぐだからです。北斎は天井を最大限に生かしたのです。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-outline-level: 3; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"&gt;マイ借景&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"&gt;親と日本と&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"&gt;全宇宙&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;**************************************************************&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;　　　&lt;/strong&gt; 　SHAKKEI&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;"&gt; (BORROWED SCENERY) &amp;amp; HOKUSAI&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gARzh2ZrYwE/Trk2ZVvxdBI/AAAAAAAAAng/hFpOX8u7eME/s1600/500x500-20485760.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gARzh2ZrYwE/Trk2ZVvxdBI/AAAAAAAAAng/hFpOX8u7eME/s320/500x500-20485760.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 1em 0px; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"&gt;&lt;v:shapetype coordsize="21600,21600" filled="f" id="_x0000_t75" o:preferrelative="t" o:spt="75" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" stroked="f"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;v:stroke joinstyle="miter"&gt;  &lt;v:formulas&gt;   &lt;v:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"&gt;   &lt;v:f eqn="sum @0 1 0"&gt;   &lt;v:f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"&gt;   &lt;v:f eqn="prod @2 1 2"&gt;   &lt;v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"&gt;   &lt;v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"&gt;   &lt;v:f eqn="sum @0 0 1"&gt;   &lt;v:f eqn="prod @6 1 2"&gt;   &lt;v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"&gt;   &lt;v:f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"&gt;   &lt;v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"&gt;   &lt;v:f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"&gt;  &lt;/v:f&gt;&lt;/v:f&gt;&lt;/v:f&gt;&lt;/v:f&gt;&lt;/v:f&gt;&lt;/v:f&gt;&lt;/v:f&gt;&lt;/v:f&gt;&lt;/v:f&gt;&lt;/v:f&gt;&lt;/v:f&gt;&lt;/v:f&gt;&lt;/v:formulas&gt;  &lt;v:path gradientshapeok="t" o:connecttype="rect" o:extrusionok="f"&gt;  &lt;o:lock aspectratio="t" v:ext="edit"&gt; &lt;/o:lock&gt;&lt;/v:path&gt;&lt;/v:stroke&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/v:shapetype&gt;&lt;v:shape id="図_x0020_1" o:spid="_x0000_s1027" style="height: 146.25pt; left: 0px; margin-left: 2pt; margin-top: 2.2pt; position: absolute; text-align: left; visibility: visible; width: 219.85pt; z-index: -3;" type="#_x0000_t75" wrapcoords="-147 0 -147 21489 21664 21489 21664 0 -147 0"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;v:imagedata o:title="500x500-20485760" src="file:///C:\Users\HIROSH~1\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image001.jpg"&gt;  &lt;w:wrap type="tight"&gt; &lt;/w:wrap&gt;&lt;/v:imagedata&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/v:shape&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;The word &lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;shakkei&lt;/i&gt; is often used when you describe the rock garden of the 550-year-old Ryoan-ji Temple in Kyoto. It is a 22-by-10 meter rectangle zen garden consisting only of raked gravel and 15 rocks surrounded by soil walls.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 1em 0px; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;It is said that if you sit on the veranda of the temple and look at the garden, you feel as if the gravel were a sea of clouds and the rocks were mountains. The tone of the garden is well matched with the old brown wall. If you look up at the background scenery behind the wall, you will see a lot of tall trees.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 1em 0px; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;The garden designer made the garden taking the background tree scenery into consideration so that it would add to the beauty of the garden. Metaphorically speaking, he “borrowed” the background view in making the garden. This is why the word &lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;shakkei&lt;/i&gt; (borrowed view) is used to describe Ryoan-ji Temple garden.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;the donkey looks scary&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;covered by &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;a lion’s skin (Aesop)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 1em 0px; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; text-align: center; text-indent: 18.05pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 1em 0px; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; text-align: center; text-indent: 18.05pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xvagr8Ibq6Y/TrieNRdefyI/AAAAAAAAAnQ/ETt2Xq0jOqc/s1600/image.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xvagr8Ibq6Y/TrieNRdefyI/AAAAAAAAAnQ/ETt2Xq0jOqc/s1600/image.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 1em 0px; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;There is a staggeringly bad example of &lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;shakkei&lt;/i&gt; garden in Nagoya. It is Shiratori Teien (White Bird Garden). It is a large garden with three ponds, a river, a waterfall, tea houses, a restaurant, and a lot of flowers and trees. When you walk beside the ponds, you feel as if you were walking in the woods. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 1em 0px; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.05pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;What is disappointing, however, is a 22-story condominium which stands ominously just beside the garden. If you look north from the garden, you can’t help seeing it in the background. It does not fit in the traditional Japanese garden. The sight ruins the quiet and relaxed feeling you get from nature. Whenever I sip green tea in the restaurant, I sit with my back facing the monster. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 1em 0px; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.05pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 1em 0px; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; text-align: center; text-indent: 18.05pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;residents of &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 1em 0px; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; text-align: center; text-indent: 18.05pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;the condominium &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 1em 0px; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; text-align: center; text-indent: 18.05pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;appreciate the garden&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 1em 0px; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; text-align: center; text-indent: 18.05pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 1em 0px; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; text-align: center; text-indent: 18.05pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JHrkhY4CohU/Trid0UPYEvI/AAAAAAAAAm4/A3jOHPmWzzs/s1600/11337019.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="225" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JHrkhY4CohU/Trid0UPYEvI/AAAAAAAAAm4/A3jOHPmWzzs/s320/11337019.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 1em 0px; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; text-align: left; text-indent: 18pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;On the other hand, an astonishingly skillful example of &lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;shakkei&lt;/i&gt; is Yomeimon Gate of Nikko Tosho-gu Shrine, a World Heritage Site designated in 1999. It is a 375-year-old building which enshrines Ieyasu Tokugawa, the founder of the Tokugawa shogunate. If you stand in front of the gate and look at it at night, you will see the North Star shining just above the center of the gate. It utilizes the star as &lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;shakkei&lt;/i&gt;. Ieyasu wanted to protect the Edo Government as an &lt;em&gt;immovable spirit like the North Star.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 1em 0px; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; text-align: center; text-indent: 18pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;the Eagle on the moon&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 1em 0px; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; text-align: center; text-indent: 18pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;the blue earth &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 1em 0px; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; text-align: center; text-indent: 18.05pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;in the background&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 1em 0px; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; text-align: center; text-indent: 18.05pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 1em 0px; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; text-align: center; text-indent: 18.05pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-A1w8FkY8Szk/TrieEFK9D0I/AAAAAAAAAnI/kAbp77m296k/s1600/kbi_art_no020_01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-A1w8FkY8Szk/TrieEFK9D0I/AAAAAAAAAnI/kAbp77m296k/s320/kbi_art_no020_01.jpg" width="318" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 1em 0px; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;Another good example of &lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;shakkei&lt;/i&gt; is a ceiling painting of a festival float painted by Katsushika Hokusai, a 19&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; century painter whose work influenced Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 1em 0px; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.05pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;It is about a one-meter square painting of rough waves on a blue sea with foam scattered all over. It is alive and vibrant. You can almost hear the crash of the whirling waves, and even feel dizzy. The most striking part is the way the crest of the waves are drawn. They look like a child’s open hands with crooked fingers. They invite you, scrape you, and draw you into the sea.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 1em 0px; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.05pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;According to an NHK TV program featuring the picture, Hokusai did not paint “waves on the sea” but “waves under the sky.” He painted the night sky from sea level. What looks like the sea is the sky, and what looks like foam are stars.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 1em 0px; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.05pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;When Hokusai was asked to draw a picture on the ceiling, he regarded it as the sky. People looking up at the ceiling painting would feel like they are looking at the sky from the sea. It is ambivalent if you look at the ceiling and imagine the sea. Hokusai made the most of the position of the ceiling. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 1em 0px; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; text-align: center; text-indent: 18.05pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;"&gt;My &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;"&gt;shakkei:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 1em 0px; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; text-align: center; text-indent: 18.05pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;parents, country, &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 1em 0px; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; text-align: center; text-indent: 18.05pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; 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 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;ネオンや車きらびやか&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;突如見上げる名古屋駅&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;小布施の道や舞妓の絵&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;コスモスの花消え去りて&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;一瞬名古屋になじめずに&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;突然お前はエイリアン&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;**********************************************&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; text-indent: 17.75pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.48;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;　　　　　　　　　SUDDENLY AN ALIEN&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  　　In early October I visited Obuse in Nagano Prefecture with my wife. It took about three hours to get there by train. Obuse is famous for the Hokusai Art Museum, which exhibits the 19th century painter, Katsushika Hokusai's wood-block prints and his original paintings. One of them attracted my attention. It is a picture of a dancing girl clad in red priestess clothes holding a dancing bell.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;　　There were a lot of cosmoses and chestnut trees by the roadsides. I enjoyed walkig along the Chestnut Path, which was paved with chestnut treee blocks. I enoyed eating chestnut jam bums.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;Obuse Station at four in the afternoon&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;three-hour return trip to Nagoya&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;good-bye Obuse, roadside cosmoses, &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;chestnut trees, and Hokusai Art Museum&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;exhausted after walking all day &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;along the country roads in Obuse&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;a can of beer quenches my throat&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;asleep in the shaking of the train&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;at five, the mountain ridge against the sky &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;the sun is setting beaming the last light&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;of the day. Reddish clouds are fading and&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;the sky is changing into darkness&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;a star above the mountain silhouette&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;the sky is getting darker and darker&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;darkness of the sky and darkness of mountains &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;finally mingle, leaving no distinct border &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;at six thirty, a few lights from the passing houses&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;as the train approaches Nagoya, I see&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;tall buildings, neon signs, busy vehicles, &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;lastly Nagoya Station skyscrapers overwhelms me&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;what has become of cosmoses in Obuse? &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;chestnut trees, buns, and Hokusai’s dancing girl?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;for a few moments I am an alien&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;breathing filthy air surrounded by foreigners&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6413525424249621925-2296257910593172232?l=matseye.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/feeds/2296257910593172232/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2011/10/suddenly-alien.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/2296257910593172232'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/2296257910593172232'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2011/10/suddenly-alien.html' title='突然エイリアン　SUDDENLY　AN　 ALIEN'/><author><name>Hiroshi Matsuoka</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06861900310456190845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6413525424249621925.post-331452132421802974</id><published>2011-09-30T16:03:00.005+09:00</published><updated>2011-12-03T22:30:39.287+09:00</updated><title type='text'>106 　わたしは何歳だったのだろう　HOW OLD WAS I?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; わたしは何歳だったのだろう&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.47; text-indent: 17.65pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"&gt;昨日（１０月２日）次男夫婦と二人の孫（３歳と３カ月）が遊びに来ました。昼食後、三歳の孫を近くの公園に連れて行きました。孫は滑り台やブランコや鉄棒で遊びました。　&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.47; text-indent: 17.65pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"&gt;滑り台ではキャッキャッと喜び、一緒に滑ろうとわたしを手招きしました。わたしも滑りましたが恥ずかしく思いました。何しろ息子達と一緒に滑ったのは３０年前だったからです。滑り台の次はブランコです。孫は自分で漕げないのでわたしが背中を押してやりました。ここでもキャッキャッと喜びました。最後は鉄棒です。背が低くて手が届かなかったので、わたしが抱っこして鉄棒に掴まらせました。身体を支えながら一回転させてやりました。目が回ったことでしょう。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.47; text-indent: 17.65pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"&gt;祖父との思い出で今でも鮮明に覚えていることがあります。祖父と一緒に兄の通っている小学校に散歩がてらに行った時のことです。多分わたしは３歳か４歳だったと思います。祖父は学校の裏門に着くと平べったい円柱形の石に座りました。わたしも座り心地の良い石を探しましたがありませんでした。その時わたしは何歳で祖父は何歳だったのだろう。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.47; text-indent: 17.65pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"&gt;孫は今日わたしと公園で遊んだことを６５年後覚えているだろうか。お前は３歳で、わたしは６８歳だったんだよ。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt 21.1pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.98; mso-para-margin-left: 2.01gd; text-indent: 23.75pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt 21.1pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.98; mso-para-margin-left: 2.01gd; text-indent: 23.75pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;HOW OLD WAS I?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt 21.1pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.98; mso-para-margin-left: 2.01gd; text-indent: 23.75pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;Yesterday (October 2) my second son and his wife visited me with their two sons: one, 3-year-old and the other, 3-month-old. After lunch I took the older grandson to a neighboring park. He enjoyed the slide, the swing, and the iron bar. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt 21.1pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.98; mso-para-margin-left: 2.01gd; text-indent: 23.75pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;He went down the slide a few times happily and beckoned me to come and slide with him. I felt a little shy. I had never gone down the slide for these 30 years. The last time I slid was when I took my sons to a park some 30 years ago. After the slide my grandson played on the swing. Since he was not able to pump his leg, I pushed his back. He made a cheerful laugh. The last was the iron bar. Since he was too short to reach the horizontal bar, I helped him to grab the bar. He turned on the bar with my assistance. He must have felt uneasy.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt 21.1pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.98; mso-para-margin-left: 2.01gd; text-indent: 23.75pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;The only vivid memory of my grandfather was the time when he took me to the elementary school my elder brother went to. When we reached the school back gate, he sat on a flat round rock nearby. I looked for a comfortable rock to sit on, but couldn’t fine one. I wonder how old I was at that time. Probably I was four or five years old. I also wonder how old my grandfather was.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt 21.1pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.98; mso-para-margin-left: 2.01gd; text-indent: 23.75pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;Will my grandson remember the experience he had with me in the park today 65 years later? You were three and I was 68, Grandson.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;my grandson and his grandson&lt;br /&gt;hand in hand&lt;br /&gt;under the clean sky&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.47; text-indent: 17.65pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.47; text-indent: 17.7pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6413525424249621925-331452132421802974?l=matseye.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/feeds/331452132421802974/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2011/09/very-busy-day.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/331452132421802974'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/331452132421802974'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2011/09/very-busy-day.html' title='106 　わたしは何歳だったのだろう　HOW OLD WAS I?'/><author><name>Hiroshi Matsuoka</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06861900310456190845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6413525424249621925.post-4904039677484529312</id><published>2011-08-31T22:45:00.007+09:00</published><updated>2011-09-01T11:40:16.368+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='原発輸出'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='export of nuclear power plant'/><title type='text'>[105] 原発輸出を中止せよ　DON'T EXPORT  WHAT YOU WON'T USE</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;div class="JTparagraph"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ Ｐゴシック&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;朝日新聞８月２９日付　「声」欄に私の投書が掲載されました。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; mso-outline-level: 3; text-indent: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ Ｐゴシック&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 官も民も原発の輸出を中止せよ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ Ｐゴシック&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; 　&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ Ｐゴシック&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;　２２日付本紙によると、政府は原発をトルコ、ヨルダン、ベトナム、リトアニア、カザフスタンに輸出しようとしている。これは管直人首相が打ち出している脱原発の方針と矛盾しないだろうか。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ Ｐゴシック&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;　&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ Ｐゴシック&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;経済産業省は「２０２０年の世界の原発市場は１６兆円」と予測し、原発メーカーも「電源が喪失しても原子炉を２４～７２時間冷却できる」と説明している。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ Ｐゴシック&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ Ｐゴシック&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;原発輸出で不況を打開しようとする姿勢は分かるが、原発は１００％安全なのだろうか。輸出した国で事故があった場合、日本政府は責任をとれるのだろうか。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ Ｐゴシック&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ Ｐゴシック&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;福島原発事故は想定外だと言う。ではその想定外の事故が外国で起こらないという保証はない。戦争やテロ攻撃だってありうる。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ Ｐゴシック&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ Ｐゴシック&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;福島県の子供が甲状腺被曝し、肉牛、コメ、茶から放射能が検出されている。この現状を政府、原発メーカーはどうとらえているのだろうか。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ Ｐゴシック&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ Ｐゴシック&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;原発を海外に売り込むのは大量破壊兵器を売り込むようなものだ。２３日の本紙に「原発輸出は民間で」という趣旨の社説があったが、日本が「死の商人」という汚名を着せられないよう、官も民も、原発輸出は中止するべきだと思う。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;　　The following is a letter to the editor that I sent to the Japan Times. It was published in the Readers in Council on August 28.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ Ｐゴシック&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="JTparagraph"&gt;DON'T SELL WHAT YOU WON'T USE&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;　　I don't understand the Japanese government's policy on nuclear power plants. On one hand, it has come out with a denuclearization policy domestically; on the other, it is planning to sell nuclear power plants to Turkey, Jordan, Vietnam, Lithuania, and Kazakhstan by 2020. This is a double standard.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="JTparagraph"&gt;　　The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry estimates that the world market for nuclear power plants will reach ¥16 trillion in 2020. Nuclear power plant maker Toshiba Corp. states that its plants can cool down in 24 to 72 hours if there is loss of power.　&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="JTparagraph"&gt;　　The safety of nuclear power plants is still questioned. And what about terrorist attacks, an unprecedented earthquake, an unimaginable malfunction or an outbreak of war?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="JTparagraph"&gt;　　Forty-five percent of about 1,150 children surveyed in Fukushima Prefecture have tested positive for exposure to radiation in their thyroid glands. Beef, rice and tea have been contaminated by radiation. Some pregnant women in the Tohoku region are afraid that their unborn children have been affected by radiation. Yet, Japan plans to export nuclear power plants.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="JTparagraph"&gt;　　Is Japan going to take responsibility when the exported power plants break down? Selling nuclear power plants is like selling opium or deadly weapons. Japan should stop selling nuclear power plants overseas before it is called a merchant of death.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6413525424249621925-4904039677484529312?l=matseye.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/feeds/4904039677484529312/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2011/08/105-dont-sell-what-you-wont-use.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/4904039677484529312'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/4904039677484529312'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2011/08/105-dont-sell-what-you-wont-use.html' title='[105] 原発輸出を中止せよ　DON&apos;T EXPORT  WHAT YOU WON&apos;T USE'/><author><name>Hiroshi Matsuoka</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06861900310456190845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6413525424249621925.post-4433744776210986357</id><published>2011-08-23T22:55:00.003+09:00</published><updated>2011-09-05T11:46:57.745+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='frozen to death'/><title type='text'>[104] 凍え死にそうだった　ALMOST FROZEN TO DEATH</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 凍え死にそうだった&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"&gt;　昨日（８月７日）は最悪の日で、凍え死ぬところだった。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.0; text-indent: 12pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"&gt;午後５時ごろ熱田図書館を出る時、空を見上げると、どす黒い不気味な雲が空を覆っていた。雨が降りそうだと思ったが、「神宮西地下鉄駅」に向かった。徒歩約５分のところにあるからだ。早足で１、２分歩いていると、雨が降ってきた。すぐ図書館に戻ればよかったのだが、地下鉄に向かって走った。雷がゴロゴロ鳴り、大粒の雨がザーと降ってきた。辺りは皆既日食のように暗くなり、走行中の車はヘッドライトをつけだした。私は走りに走った。服がびしょ濡れになった。走りながら雨宿りするところを探したが、どこにもない。ところが運のいい事に、幅１メートル・長さ３メートルぐらいの屋根付きのバス停が目に入り、駆け込んだ。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"&gt;　バス停に立っていると、雨は益々勢いを増し、屋根をぶち壊すぐらい猛烈な勢いで降ってきた。聞こえるのは雷雨の音だけ。風も出てきた。雨が横殴りに左から右から降り込んできた。容赦ない大雨。無数のバケツがひっくり返ったようだ。バス停の屋根は怒り狂った雨から私を守ってはくれない。濡れ鼠になった。髪の毛も、眼鏡も、下着も、ズボンも、靴もびちゃびちゃ。足元の舗装歩道一面に水深３センチの川が勢いよく流れている。靴の下半分が川に浸かっている。寒い。疲れた。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"&gt;　突然、バス停のスピーカーから放送が聞こえてきた。「ＯＯ行きのバスが間もなく参ります」やった！バスに乗ればこの大雨から逃れられる、と思った。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"&gt;　バスが来た。「権野行」だった。権野という地名を知らないので乗ろうか乗るまいか迷った。どこに連れて行かれるか分からない。結局、乗らなかった。バスは私を大雨の中に置き去りにして発車した。すぐ、乗れば良かったと後悔した。何と言っても今一番必要なことは雨宿りだったからだ。しかし、もう遅い。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"&gt;　運がいい事に、２，３分後、またバスが来た。飛び乗って、ほっとした。乗客が数人いた。横長の座席に座った。ナップサックも、髪の毛も、ズボンも、衣服も、メガネも、下着も、靴も何もかもぐしょ濡れ。乗客は私を見て、どこかの池に落ちたのだろうと思ったかも知れない。身体から水が滴り落ちて座席を濡らしている。座席のシートの色が濡れた所だけ黒くなっている。座席を濡らして申し訳ないと思った。バスはエアコンが効いていて、寒くなってきた。乾いたタオルもなく、手でぐしょ濡れの髪の毛の水を拭うしかすることがなかった。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"&gt;　私は、次のバス停の名前を案内する車内放送を注意して聞いていた。身体が次第に冷えてきた。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"&gt;バスは知らない土地を走っている。恐らく終点は片田舎の町だろうと思った。車窓風景が工場や田圃に変わった。寒くて身体が凍えてきた。雨は激しく降っている。バスを降りなければ凍え死んでしまうと思ったが、大雨の中に再びさらされたくなかった。でも、すぐバスを降りないと、帰りのタクシー代がかさむだろうとも思った。降りようか降りまいか迷っている内にもバスは凍った私の身体に無頓着でどんどんどんどん走っている。乗り降りする乗客はバスの中で異常事態が発生しているのに平然としている。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"&gt;　１５ぐらいのバス停を通過した時、「次は築地口です。地下鉄にお乗りの方はここで降りて下さい」と案内が流れた。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"&gt;　天の助け！　築地口なら知っている！&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"&gt;　バスを降り地下鉄に乗った。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;ALMOST FROZEN TO DEATH&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Yesterday (August 7)&amp;nbsp;was one of my unluckiest days in my life because I was completely drenched to the skin and was almost frozen to death. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; text-indent: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;As I was leaving Atsuta Library around five o’clock in the evening, I looked up at the sky. It was covered with dark threatening cloud. Though I thought it would rain soon, I dared to leave the library for Jingu-nishi Subway Station, about a five minute walk from the library. &lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; text-indent: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;While I was walking hurriedly for a minute or so, it began to rain hard. I should have returned to the library, but I ran for the subway station. Thunder rolled and torrents of rain began to fall. The streets suddenly became as dark as a total solar eclipse. Automobiles were running with headlights on. I ran and ran. My clothes were all wet. I was out of breath. As I was running, I looked for a place to take shelter from the rain, but in vain. Soon luckily I saw a bus stop equipped with a simple roof about a meter wide and three meters long. I rushed to it and took shelter. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; text-indent: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;As I was standing under the roof, the rain gathered all the ominous power in the sky and poured onto the roof as if it would crash it down. I heard nothing but a thundering roar and beating rain. Before I realized it, the wind had picked up. It had begun to rain sideways. The bus-stop roof was useless. It continued to rain relentlessly from above, from the right, and from the left sides. Oh, the pouring water from a tremendous number of buckets! The roof did not protect me from the outrageous rainfall. I was literally drenched to the skin. My hair, glasses, undershirts, pants, and shoes were all wet. The pedestrian road I was standing on was covered with streaming water about three centimeters deep. The lower part of my shoes sank in the flowing water. I became cold from top to toe. I was exhausted.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Suddenly I heard an announcement from the bus-stop speaker: “A bus bound for Such and Such destination is now approaching. I thought, “Lucky. If I take the bus, it will protect me from the torrent.” &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;The bus came. The sign on the bus read “For Gonno.” I hesitated to get on it because I did not know where Gonno was. I was afraid that it would take me to an unknown place. I gave up. The bus left me in the heavy rain. Immediately after the bus left, I thought I should have taken it because the most important thing for me then was to take shelter from the rain, but it was too late. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Luckily, however, another bus came in a few minutes. I got on the bus. What a relief! There were several passengers. I sat on the side bench. My backpack, my hair, my pants, my clothes, my glasses, my underwears, my shoes were all wet. I might have looked like a man who had been dropped into a pond. Water trickled down onto the bench. I just sat on it feeling sorry for wetting it. I felt cold. The bus was air-conditioned. All I could do was just to wipe water from my hair with my hand. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.47; text-indent: 17.65pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;I kept paying attention to the announcement of the bus speaker which informed about the next bus stops. I continued to look out of the window to know where the bus was heading for. I became colder and colder. &lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Soon I realized the bus was going away from my familiar places, but to an unknown countryside destination. The scenery turned to that of factories and rice fields. I was freezing cold. It was still raining hard. I thought I must get off the bus immediately; otherwise, I would be frozen to death. But I did not want to be exposed to the torrents of rain. On the other hand, I was afraid I would have to take a long-distance taxi ride to go back home if I did not get off the bus immediately. Even while I was indecisive whether to get off or not, the bus ran without minding my freezing body. Passengers were getting on and off as peacefully as if nothing unsusual was taking place in the bus.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;After passing about 15 bus stops, the bus announced, “The next bus stop is Tsukiji-guchi. Those who take a subway, please get off here.” &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.0; text-indent: 12pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;Oh, God, I know Tsukiji-guchi.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;I got off the bus, and took a subway home.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6413525424249621925-4433744776210986357?l=matseye.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/feeds/4433744776210986357/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2011/08/almost-frozen-to-death.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/4433744776210986357'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/4433744776210986357'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2011/08/almost-frozen-to-death.html' title='[104] 凍え死にそうだった　ALMOST FROZEN TO DEATH'/><author><name>Hiroshi Matsuoka</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06861900310456190845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6413525424249621925.post-5648492430078450724</id><published>2011-08-16T20:03:00.007+09:00</published><updated>2011-08-24T22:43:46.250+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='催眠術'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='go away pain'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hypnosis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='placebo effect'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='古武道'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='プラシーボ'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='E=mc2'/><title type='text'>[103] 痛いの、痛いの、飛んでけ！　PAIN, PAIN, FLY AWAY!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  　　　　　　　　　　　　　痛いの、痛いの、飛んでけ！&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;古武道杖道&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;　私は&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;20&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;年近く古武道の杖道をやっています。師範は「相手を倒すという信念をもって杖を振りおろしなさい。その時、&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;杖の先から殺気を出さなければいけない」と常に言っています。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;剣術でも同じです。師範は、敵と対峙する時は敵を威圧する「気」を太刀から出さなければならない。敵に接近するにつれ、「気」を強め、自分の太刀が相手とぶつかる時は「気」が最大に満ちていなくてはならないと言っています。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;我が殺気　敵の殺気に　蹴倒され&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;催眠術にかかったサイ&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;　数年前、催眠術のテレビ番組がありました。催眠術師が観客から無差別に選んだ６人の人に催眠術をかける番組です。催眠術師は、約５メートル離れて立っている６人に対して波を送るかのように片手を細かく上下に振りました。やがて６人はふらふらとなり、ついには全員が床に倒れました。私は６人がわざと倒れたのじゃないかと勘繰りました。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;　しかし、アフリカのジャングルで行われた催眠術の番組を見て驚きました。催眠術師はサイの群れから１５メートルぐらい離れたところに立ち、サイの方向に向かって手をゆっくり動かし始めました。目に見えない波を５分ぐらいサイに向かって送り続けると、驚くことに、サイが一頭、また一頭と湿地に倒れていくではありませんか。約１０分後、サイは全部倒れました。勿論、サイはサクラではありません。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;頼むから　サイの皆さん　倒れてよ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;痛いの、飛んでけ！&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;　幼児が転んだり、何かにぶつかって軽い擦り傷などすると、母親が怪我をしたところに手を当て、それから手を空中に飛ばすようにして、「痛いの、痛いの、飛んでけ！」と言います。母親は、「坊や、痛い、痛いは飛んでったから、もう痛くないよ」と言います。すると子供は泣き止みます。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;　&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;ママすごい　ホントに痛み　飛んでった&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;良く効く偽の薬&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;　医薬会社が最も恐れているものは何でしょう。偽の薬です。科学的調査によると、偽薬と医薬の効果の差は２ポイントでした。（偽薬は５８ポイントで医薬は６０ポイント。）　結局、偽薬も医薬も実質効果は同じだと言うことです。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;　偽薬の魔法のような効果は医薬だけではありません。手術にも効果があるのです。医科学の本を読んでいましたら、驚くべきことが書いてありました。手術チームが偽の手術をしたのです。胃潰瘍の患者を睡眠薬で眠らせ、腹を切開し、手術をしているかのような会話をし、ナイフやメスの音をたて、いかにも手術をしているようなふりをしたのです。手術に要する時間が経過した後、患者を起こして、手術が成功だったと伝えました。暫らくして胃潰瘍は治ったのです。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;信ずれば　どんな病気も　治ります&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;E=mc²&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;　これまで述べてきた不思議な現象は、ブルース・リプトン博士著の『信念のすごい力―心はいかにして細胞をコントロールするか』（ＰＨＰ研究所）と言う本を読んで納得することができました。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.0; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;その本によると、人間の身体は何十兆もの細胞でできており、その細胞は主にたんぱく質でできており、そのタンパク質は分子でできており、分子は原子でできており、原子は原子核と電子でできています。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.0; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;驚くことに、原子核も電子も物質でありながら同時にエネルギーなのです。理論上、原子核や電子は超スーパー電子顕微鏡で見ることができます。電子が原子核の周りをまわっている模型図を見たことがあるでしょう。しかし、原子核や電子をズームアップするとその形は消滅し、何も見えなくなるのです。なぜなら、原子核も電子もエネルギーだからです。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.0; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;だから、「痛いの、痛いの飛んでけ！」と言うエネルギーを子供に送れば、子供のエネルギーは反応するのです。アインシュタインの「エネルギー＝質量Ｘ光速度の二乗」と言う公式によれば、エネルギーは質量で、質量はエネルギーだと言うことです。人間を形のある物質ととらえていると不思議な現象は理解できないでしょうが、人間をエネルギーだと考えれば理解できるのではないでしょうか。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.0; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;　&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; PAIN, PAIN, FLY AWAY!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;The Martial Art of Jo&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;I have &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;been&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt; practicing the martial art of Jo (stick) for many years. My teacher always says, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;“You&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt; must wield your Jo with a strong intention to kill your opponent. You must emit a murderous power from its &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;tip&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;This is the same in the case of sword fighting. According to him, the moment you stand opposed to your enemy, you must send a threatening wave at him. As you come closer to him, you must intensify the wave. When your sword clashes against his, it must be filled with the utmost spiritual power.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;Can the threatening wave enter the enemy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;’s&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt; body?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;Rhinoceroses under Hypnosis&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;Several years ago, I was watching a TV program featuring hypnosis spell. The hypnotist tried to hypnotize six people chosen at random from the audience. They stood about five meters away from him. He began to wave his hand at the six subjects. Soon they staggered and finally collapsed on the floor. I thought they were cooperating with the hypnotist.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;However&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt; I was amazed at another similar program which featured a hypnosis test in an African jungle. The hypnotist stood about 15 meters away from a group of rhinoceroses. He waved his hand slowly &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;towards&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt; the animals. He kept sending the wave for five minutes. Then, believe it or not, the rhinocer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;ses began to collapse one &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;after another&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt; on the marsh. And in ten minutes all the animals fell. Apparently they were not claques.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;What did he send to the animals?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;Go Away, Pain&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;Sometimes young mothers say to their little children who have been slightly injured from falling down or bumping a hard object, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;“P&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;ain, pain, go away!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;” and she &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;puts her hand on the injured part and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;“throws&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt; away the pain&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;” &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;in the air. She says, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;“W&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;ell, the pain has flown away. Now you don&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;’t&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt; feel the pain.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;And the child stops crying.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;Did the pain actually fly away?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;Placebo Effect&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;What do pharmaceutical companies dread most? The answer is placebos. According to scientific statics, the gap between a placebo effect and a medi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;ci&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;n&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;al &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;effect is only two &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;percentage &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;points. That is 58 percent (placebo) to 60 percent&amp;nbsp;(medicine). It means that placebos and medicine virtually have the same effect.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;The magic power of the placebo is not limited only to medicine. It is effective in surgery, too. According to a sc&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;ence book, a surgery team conducted a mock su&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;r&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;gery. The team put an ulcer patient to sleep with an anesthetic, made an incision, engaged in a mock surgical conversation, and made sound of surgical tools. After the necessary time for the surgery had elapsed, they woke up the patient and told him the surgery had been a success. Surprisingly enough, the disease was soon cured.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;Did t&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;he patient&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;’s&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;belief&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt; that &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;the surgery had been a success&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;have&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt; curing power?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;E=mc²&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;All the mysteries I have mentioned above &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;were&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;re&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;solved when I read the Japanese version of &lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter, &amp;amp; Miracles&lt;/i&gt; w&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;r&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;itten by Dr. Bruce H. Lipton. He says:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;A human body is made up of trillions of cells, which are made up mainly of proteins, which are made up of molecules, which are made up of atoms, which are made up of the nucleus and electrons.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;Amazingly the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;nucleus and electrons are substances and at the same time energy. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;Theoretically speaking, y&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;ou can &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;see&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;them with an ultra powerful microscope. You have probably seen a model of several electrons rotating around a nucleus. But if you zoom up to them&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;their shapes will disappear and you will see nothing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;, because they are energy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt; In other words your body is made up of energy.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;Therefore, if you send &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;a particular&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt; energy like &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;“P&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;ain, go away,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;” the child’s&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt; energ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;y &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;respond&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;s&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt; to it. As Einstein&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;’s&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt; formula indicates&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;“Energy &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;equals mass times the velocity of light squared,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;” &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;energy is mass, and mass is energy. When you grasp that&amp;nbsp;the human body is &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;a substance&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;, you can&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;’t &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;understand the magical power, but if you consider&amp;nbsp;the human body as ener&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;g&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;y, you can understand &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;MS UI Gothic&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;it.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6413525424249621925-5648492430078450724?l=matseye.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/feeds/5648492430078450724/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2011/08/you-are-made-up-of-energy.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/5648492430078450724'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/5648492430078450724'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2011/08/you-are-made-up-of-energy.html' title='[103] 痛いの、痛いの、飛んでけ！　PAIN, PAIN, FLY AWAY!'/><author><name>Hiroshi Matsuoka</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06861900310456190845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6413525424249621925.post-6377383164173089889</id><published>2011-07-08T12:14:00.003+09:00</published><updated>2011-07-15T21:44:05.076+09:00</updated><title type='text'>[102] 彼女はお棺に何を入れたか　WHAT DID SHE PUT IN THE COFFIN?</title><content type='html'>彼女はお棺に何を入れたか&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　昨日（６月２５日）行われた親戚の葬式（享年８７）で、愉快な出来事がありました。&lt;br /&gt;　焼香が終わり僧侶が退場すると、親族による献花の儀式が始まりました。棺の蓋が開けられて、親族がめいめい花を棺に入れました。私も大きな紫色の花を数本入れて、棺から２メートルぐらい離れたところに立って、遺族が花を入れているのを見ていました。&lt;br /&gt;　一番悲しんでいたのは１７歳前後の４人の孫娘達でした。献花の間中、しくしく泣いていてハンカチで涙を押さえていました。やがて献花が終わり、いよいよ棺に蓋をするとき、娘さん達は一人ずつ棺の中に何か小さな物を入れました。恐らく亡き祖父との思い出の品で、祖父への最後の贈り物だったのでしょう。一番年下の孫娘が、ビニールに包んだ卵大の物を棺に入れたとき、娘さん達は泣くのを止めてにっこり笑いました。ほんの瞬間的な出来事でした。&lt;br /&gt;　娘さんが入れたものは何だったんだろうと思いました。親御さんは重々しい顔をしていて笑わなかったから、その物の中身を知らないか、知っていても笑うのは、はしたないと思っていたのかもしれません。娘さん達は４人一緒に笑ったから、４人は仲がよく、誰が何を棺に入れるか知っていたと推測しました。&lt;br /&gt;　火葬場に行くバスに乗りながら、娘さん達全員の笑いを誘った物は何だったのだろうと思いました。何か滑稽で、その場にふさわしくないものに違いありません。しかし、何かさっぱり見当がつきませんでした。&lt;br /&gt;　火葬が終わって斎場に着いたとき、私は思い切って何を入れたのかと娘さんに聞きました。始め、娘さんは何のことやら分からなかったようですが、やっと気がつき「あれ、お饅頭です」と、にっこりして答えました。そばで聞いていた３人の娘さんも笑いました。その瞬間、悲しみがどこかに飛んでいったようでした。娘さんは「じいちゃん、お饅頭が大好きだったから」と言いました。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WHAT DID SHE PUT IN THE COFFIN?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;WHAT DID SHE PUT IN THE COFFIN?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.47; text-indent: 17.65pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;On June 25, I had a pleasant experience during the funeral for my relative, who died at the age of 87.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;When all those in attendance finished making an incense offering and the priests left the funeral hall, the last ritual, offering flowers, was conducted. The coffin lid was opened and each of the family memebres and relatives offered flowers to his body. I put a few large purple flowers in the coffin and stood about two meters away from it watching the bereaved family.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;This was the moment of sorrow, for it was the last chance to see the deceased. The most sorrowful were his four granddaughters, around 17 years old. They were sobbing throughout the funeral wiping tears with hankerchieves. I understood how much their grandfather had loved them. When the ritual came to an end and before the lid was closed, each of the girls solemnly put something in the coffin one by one. I thought they must be memorial tokens for their beloved grandfather. Unexpectedly, however, at the moment when the fourth girl, probably the youngest, put an egg-sized thing wrapped with plastic in the coffin, the girls stopped sobbing and flashed a grin. A moment of delight prevailed in the hall.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;I wondered what it was that had prompted their smiles. Although the girls smiled, their parents did not. They must have known better than to grin because they were adults. Or probably they did not know it. The girls’ simultaneous smiles showed that they had a close relationship with each other and that they knew the content of the package.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;During the bus ride to the crematorium, I was wondering what it was that had brought about their grins. It must have been something humorous and irrelvalent to the occasion, but I could not guess what it was.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;After the cremation I dared to ask the girl what she had put in the coffin. She first did not understand the meaning of my question, but finally she said, “Oh, I put &lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;omanju&lt;/i&gt; (steamed bean-jam bun). The other three girls overhearing our conversation burst into laughter. In that moment they seemed to have forgotten their sorrow. They said, “Grandpa loved &lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;omanjyu&lt;/i&gt;.” &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6413525424249621925-6377383164173089889?l=matseye.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/feeds/6377383164173089889/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2011/07/102-what-did-she-put-in-coffin.html#comment-form' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/6377383164173089889'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/6377383164173089889'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2011/07/102-what-did-she-put-in-coffin.html' title='[102] 彼女はお棺に何を入れたか　WHAT DID SHE PUT IN THE COFFIN?'/><author><name>Hiroshi Matsuoka</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06861900310456190845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6413525424249621925.post-5679922322849247977</id><published>2011-07-03T22:25:00.005+09:00</published><updated>2011-07-05T21:10:38.821+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='　read aloud'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='library'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='　音読'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='図書館'/><title type='text'>[101]音読しないでください　DO NOT READ ALOUD</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;　　　　　　　　　　音読しないでください&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　先日、東図書館で本を読んでいたら、近くから男の人が大きな声でおとぎ話を読んでいる声が聞こえてきた。振り返えると３５歳ぐらいの人が可愛い女の子を膝に乗せて甘い声で、気持ちを込めて読み聞かせている。「&lt;em&gt;むかしむかし、あるところに王女がいました。&lt;/em&gt;これが王女だよ、いいね。&lt;em&gt;王女は美しい白いお城に住んでいました&lt;/em&gt;」。&lt;br /&gt;　音読が数分間続き、私はいら立ってきた。周りの人達も顔をしかめて、父娘をちらちら見ていた。私は、今の話が終われば音読が止むだろうと思って我慢していた。やがて話が終わり、やれやれと思ったら、なんと、父親は声も新たにまた別の話を読みだした。もう我慢ができない。「静粛は図書館利用者の基本的マナーだ。あの男は分かっていない」。&lt;br /&gt;　私は立ちあがり、男のところへ行って、「本を読むのを止めてもらえませんか」と言った。&lt;br /&gt;　男は驚いて私の顔を見て、&lt;br /&gt;「ここは図書館だろう。何で本読んじゃいけないんや。ここは本読むとこだろうが」&lt;br /&gt;「ですが、声を出して読まないで下さい」&lt;br /&gt;　男は周りを見渡して「『声を出して読んではいけない』という貼り紙がどこにもしてないじゃないか。いい年こいて馬鹿なこと言うんじゃねーよ」&lt;br /&gt;　周りの人達が読書を止めて私と男を見ている。二人のやり合いが読んでいる本よりよほど面白いらしい。私は話しても無駄だと思い、司書を呼びに行った。司書は私の後についてきて、男のところに来て、か細い声で「静かに読んでくださいませんか。ここは図書館ですので」と言った。男は荒々しい声で「そうや。ここは図書館や。だから娘に本を読んだっとるんや。それがどこが悪いんや。声を出して読んでやらなきゃ、娘は意味がわからんだろうが」&lt;br /&gt;「でも、みんなが本を読んでいますので、音読するのは止めて下さい」&lt;br /&gt;　男は司書を無視して娘に何やら甘い言葉をかけて、また音読しだした。司書は、ただそこに立っているだけだった。私は司書に図書館長を呼んできて下さいと言った。&lt;br /&gt;　暫らくして館長が来て、騒音男と館長の間で言い合いになった。男の言い分は「音読をしないように」という貼り紙がしてないと言うことだった。ついに館長は諦めて戻って行ったが、やがてＡ３サイズの紙を持って現れ、男に一番近い柱にこれ見よがしに貼り付けた。そこには「図書館で声を出して本を読まないで下さい」と書いてあった。&lt;br /&gt;　男は貼り紙を見て「おめー、市民から読書の楽しみを奪うんかぁ」と、捨て台詞を言って出て行った。&lt;br /&gt;　一週間後、東図書館に行ったら、まだ貼り紙がしてあった。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　　　　　　　　　DO NOT READ ALOUD&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　　The other day I was reading a book at the Higashi-ku Library, when suddenly I heard a man reading a fairy tale aloud. I turned to find a father around 35 years old reading it to his cute little daughter who was sitting on his lap. His voice was sweet and emotion-filled, “Once upon a time, there was a princess. This is the princess, my child. She lived in a beautiful white castle….” It lasted for several minutes.&lt;br /&gt;　　I was irritated. The people around me were glancing at the father and the child with frowned faces. I thought the nuisance would stop after he finished reading the tale. I was patient. Soon he finished it, but alas, he began to read another one with his fresh voice. I became impatient. I said to myself angrily, “Being quiet in a library is basic manner. Doesn’t he know that?” &lt;br /&gt;　　I stood up, went to him, and said, “Could you stop reading the book?” &lt;br /&gt;　　Surprised, he looked up at me and said,&lt;br /&gt;　“But this is a library. Why should I stop reading? Isn’t this a place for reading?” &lt;br /&gt;　“Yes, but you should not read aloud.”&lt;br /&gt;　　He looked around and said, “Why, there is no sign saying DO NOT READ ALOUD posted in here? Don’t say such a foolish thing, you silly grey-haired man!”&lt;br /&gt;　　Everybody in the library looked away from thier books and was watching us. Our combat seemed much more interesting than what they were reading. Soon I realized that it was useless to continue talking to him. I gave up and went to call the librarian. Following me, she came to him and said politely in a feeble voice, “Please read silently. This is a library.” The man refuted in a roaring voice, “Yes, this is a library. That’s why I am reading a book to my daughter. What’s wrong with it? I don’t follow you. My daughter cannot understand the meaning of the story unless I read to her aloud.”&lt;br /&gt;　“But everybody is reading a book. So, please do not read aloud,” she said.&lt;br /&gt;　　He ignored her, said some sweet words to his child, and began to read the tale aloud. The librarian kept standing beside him not knowing what to do. I suggested to her that she call the library director.&lt;br /&gt;　　Soon the director came and there were some more commotion between the man and the director. The basic argument of the man was that there was no sign saying DO NOT READ ALOUD. Finally the director gave up and went back to his office. Soon he came back with an A-3 size paper. He pasted it on one of the pillars nearest to the unmannerly man. It read, DO NOT READ ALOUD IN THE LIBRARY.&lt;br /&gt;　　The man looked at the sign and left the library with a Parthian shot, “You are depriving a citizen of his joy of reading.”&lt;br /&gt;　　One week later I went to the library only to find the ridiculous sign still pasted on the pillar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6413525424249621925-5679922322849247977?l=matseye.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/feeds/5679922322849247977/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2011/07/101.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/5679922322849247977'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/5679922322849247977'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2011/07/101.html' title='[101]音読しないでください　DO NOT READ ALOUD'/><author><name>Hiroshi Matsuoka</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06861900310456190845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6413525424249621925.post-8174587943973782096</id><published>2011-06-30T22:46:00.004+09:00</published><updated>2011-07-15T21:48:58.731+09:00</updated><title type='text'>[100] １００号記念！　心は奪われていない　THEIR HEARTS ARE INTACT</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;　　　　　　　　　　心は奪われていない&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　復興構想委員会委員長の五百頭真氏は、NHKのインタビュー番組で以下のようなエピソードを語りました。それは国際交流基金日米センター評議会でたまたま隣に座っていたジョージ・アリモト元ハワイ州知事から聞いた体験談でした。&lt;br /&gt;　１９４５年日本が進駐軍に占領されているときのことです。当時進駐軍の若い将校であったジョージ・アリモトさんが、寒い冬のある日、東京有楽町で靴を磨かせていました。靴磨き少年が一生懸命靴を磨いているのを見て、アリモトさんは「いい少年だ」と思いました。靴磨きが終わると、彼は進駐軍食堂へ行ってパンにジャムとバターをたっぷり塗って、少年のところに戻り、パンを少年に与えました。少年は最初躊躇しましたが、「ありがとう」と言ってパンを受け取り、箱の中にしまいました。アリモトさんは少年が嬉しそうにパンを食べると思っていたのに、少年は食べなかったのです。なぜ食べないのかと尋ねると、少年は「妹に分けてやるんです」と言いました。年齢を聞くと少年は７歳で、妹は３歳。二人は戦争孤児でした。アリモトさんは、いたけない７歳の子が３歳の妹を食べさせようと頑張っている姿を見て感動しまし、「日本は戦争で物を無くしたが、心は無くしていない」と思ったそうです。&lt;br /&gt;　五百頭氏はインタビューの最後に「東北の津波は全ての物を押し流してしまいましたが、心は流し去っていません」と語りました。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　　　　　THEIR HEARTS ARE INTACT&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　　Makoto Iokibe, head of the Reconstruction Design Council, talked about the following episode during an NHK interview program. He had heard about it from George Ariyoshi, former governor of Hawaii, who happened to sit beside him at the Council of the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership:&lt;br /&gt;　　This incident took place in 1945 when Japan was occupied by the Allied Occupation forces. The then young occupation officer, George Ariyoshi, had his shoes polished in Yurakucho, Tokyo on a cold winter day. Looking at the shoeshine boy polishing them earnestly, he thought that he was a nice boy. When the polishing was over, he went to the Occupation Forces mess hall, dollopped jam and butter onto a loaf of bread, returned to the boy, and gave it to him. The boy hesitatingly took it saying, “Thank you.” Contrary to the officer’s expectation, however, the boy did not eat it. Instead, he put it in a box. The soldier asked him why he did not eat it, the boy said, ‘I have a little sister named Mariko. I will give it to her.’ The soldier asked their ages. He was seven and his sister was three. They were war orphans.&lt;br /&gt;　　“The soldier was deeply moved and said to himself, ‘A boy as young as seven years old is working hard to feed his sister. Japan has lost material things, but not their hearts. Japan will surely revive.’” &lt;br /&gt;　　Iokibe said in conclusion that the Great Tohoku Tsunami had washed away all the Tohoku people’s materials but not their hearts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6413525424249621925-8174587943973782096?l=matseye.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/feeds/8174587943973782096/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2011/06/100-their-hearts-are-intact.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/8174587943973782096'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/8174587943973782096'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2011/06/100-their-hearts-are-intact.html' title='[100] １００号記念！　心は奪われていない　THEIR HEARTS ARE INTACT'/><author><name>Hiroshi Matsuoka</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06861900310456190845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6413525424249621925.post-1434755662119698151</id><published>2011-06-23T10:12:00.008+09:00</published><updated>2011-07-02T21:53:50.065+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='村上和雄、血糖値、遺伝子'/><title type='text'>[99] 　腹八分、笑い十二分　　EAT LESS AND LAUGH MORE</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"&gt;　&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"&gt;　　　　　腹八分、笑い十二分　&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"&gt;　　&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"&gt;　先週、村上和雄筑波大学名誉教授著の「生命の記号」を読んだ。それによると、人間の身体は６０兆の細胞からできており、さらに個々の細胞には３０億の遺伝子記号が記されていて、その内の９５パーセントが眠っているという。身体に役に立つ遺伝子もあれば、そうでないものもある。だから、健康な生活を送るためには悪い遺伝子を眠ったままにしておき、良い遺伝子を起こすことだ。どうするか。村上氏は、鍵は前向き思考だと言う。前向き思考は良い遺伝子を起こすそうだ。さらに、笑いも良いと言う。村上氏は笑いの効果を２６人の糖尿病患者で実験し、証明した。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"&gt;　最近、私の友達が車から降りるとき膝を骨折してしまった。３カ月の治療で治ったが、当初、医者は「私は治療のために９９パーセントの事は出来ますが、最後の１パーセントは治そうという御本人の意思にかかっています」と言ったそうだ。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"&gt;　昨日、ＮＨＫで「長寿の秘訣」と言う番組を見て驚いた。科学者が「サーチュイン」という物質を発見し、そのスイッチをオンにすれば、長寿を含む１００もの身体にいい事をしてくれるそうだ。どのようにオンにするか。簡単なことで、摂取カロリーを３０パーセント減らすことだ。番組では４人の被験者に、いつもより３０パーセント少なめの食事を摂ることを７週間続けてもらった。結果は驚くなかれ、加齢要因である活性酸素の量が４人とも減ったのだ。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"&gt;　私は長生きして多くの事をしたい。良い短編を書いたり、好きな本を読んだり、杖道の技を磨きたいし、リニア中央新幹線に乗りたいし、曾孫の孫もみたい。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"&gt;　&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;"&gt;結論：　モットー　＜&lt;/span&gt;少く食べて、大いに笑う＞&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; 　　　　　　　　EAT LESS AND LAUGH MORE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last week I read a book about genes titled &lt;em&gt;Seimei no Kigo (Code of Life) &lt;/em&gt;written by Kazuo Murakami, an emeritus professor of Tsukuba University. &lt;br /&gt;Murakami says that a human being consists of 60 trillion cells and each cell has 30 billion genes, 95 percent of which are sleeping. Some of them are good for your body while others are not. Therefore, all you have to do to live a healthy happy life is to let the bad genes sleep and wake up the good ones. How to do it? Murakami says the key is positive thinking, which switches on the good genes and wakes them up. Besides positive thinking, he says, laughter is good. He proved the effect of laughter based on an experiment with 26 diabetic patients. &lt;br /&gt;A friend of mine recently had her knee fractured when she was getting out of her car. After almost three months&amp;nbsp;of &amp;nbsp;treatment, her knee has recovered. Her doctor had told her that he would do his best to cure the injury, but added that all he could do was 99 percent and the last one percent depended on her will to get well. &lt;br /&gt;Yesterday I watched an NHK program “How to Live Long.” I was surprised to know that scientists had found special substance called sirtuin. If you switch on your sirtuins, they will give you about 100 good influences on your body including longevity. How to wake them? It is simple and easy. Just decrease the amount of calories you take by 30 percent every day. The program showed four persons who ate 30 percent less amount of meals than usual for seven weeks. The result was marvelous. All of them showed the decrease in the level of&amp;nbsp;active oxygen, which is a common factor in the aging process.&lt;br /&gt;I want to live long and do many things including writing good short stories and reading books, to be more skillful in the martial art of Jo, riding the linear Chuo Shinkansen train which is scheduled to run in 2027, and seeing my great-grandchildren. &lt;br /&gt;In conclusion, my motto is to eat less and laugh more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6413525424249621925-1434755662119698151?l=matseye.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/feeds/1434755662119698151/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2011/06/99-eat-less-and-laugh-more.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/1434755662119698151'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/1434755662119698151'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2011/06/99-eat-less-and-laugh-more.html' title='[99] 　腹八分、笑い十二分　　EAT LESS AND LAUGH MORE'/><author><name>Hiroshi Matsuoka</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06861900310456190845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6413525424249621925.post-3997470424740282571</id><published>2011-06-23T09:03:00.003+09:00</published><updated>2011-06-30T20:39:01.332+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Kiyoshi Kodama'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='児玉清'/><title type='text'>[98] 追悼　児玉清さん　IN MEMERY OF KIYOSHI KODAMA</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;　　　　　追悼　児玉清さん&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　５月１６日、児玉清さんが癌のため７７歳で亡くなりました。映画俳優、作家、テレビ番組のホストでした。&lt;br /&gt;　児玉さんはＮＨＫの「週刊ブックレビュー」の司会を１８年間勤めました。（現在は別の司会者）　毎週土曜日、３人のゲストが順に好きな本を紹介します。他のゲストも同じ本に関してコメントをします。この番組のおかげで私はいろいろ新しい本に出会うことができました。&lt;br /&gt;　５月２８日、ＮＨＫで児玉さんの追悼番組（５５分間）があり、児玉さんの愛読家ぶりが紹介されました。児玉さんは本を紹介する時、とても熱心で制限時間をオーバーすることがありました。主人公に感情移入することによって様々な人生を経験できたそうです。&lt;br /&gt;　児玉さんの書斎も紹介されましたが、フィクション、ノンフィクション、歴史物、哲学書など２万冊以上ありました。驚くことにグラハム、デミル、ヘイリー、ラーソン、シェルダン等の英語の原書もありましたが、学習院大の独文科出身であるのに、どのように英語の力をつけたのでしょう。&lt;br /&gt;　印象に残ったのはアーサー・ヘイリーやシドニー・シェルダン等の著名な作家へのインタヴューです。そのため彼はアメリカやイギリスに飛んでいるのです。シェルダンは「私はどのページでも読者を怖がらせようと考えています。読者に降りる駅を通り過ぎてしまったり、寝る間も惜しんで読んでもらいたいからです」と言っていました。ヘイリーは「一つの章を終わる毎に、これで読者の心をつかめたかと自問します」と言っていました。&lt;br /&gt;　私も読書好きでフィクションを書いたりしますから、この番組から知的な刺激を受けました。&lt;br /&gt;　児玉さんのご冥福を祈ります。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;　　　　　　　　IN MEMEORY OF KIYOSHI KODAMA&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　　Kiyoshi Kodama died of cancer at the age of 77 on May 16. He was a movie star, a TV celebrity, a writer, and a host of TV shows. &lt;br /&gt;　　Kodama hosted an NHK TV program “Weekly Book Review” for 18 years. (It is still broadcast with a different host.) Every Saturday, three guests are invited to the program. Each guest introduces his or her favorite book and comments on it. The other guests and the host also give their comments on the same book. I enjoyed the program, through which I encountered new books.&lt;br /&gt;　　NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) broadcasted a 55-minute special memorial program for him on May 28. &lt;br /&gt;　　The program showed Kiyoshi Kodama’s love for books. When he introduced his favorite books in the program, he talked about them with extraordinary passion and enthusiasm, sometimes past the time limit. He said that he enjoyed experiencing a variety of different lives by empathizing with the protagonist.&lt;br /&gt;　　The program showed the study in his house, which contained, according to the narrator, more than 20,000 books. He loved to read all genres of books: fiction, non-fiction, and historical and philosophical books. I was surprised to see dozens of English novels written by John Graham, Nelson DeMille, Arthur Heiley, Stieg Larsson, Sidney Sheldon, and others. He once said that he made it a rule to read English novels while he was flying to foreign countries. I wonder how he acquired the ability to read English. (He majored in German Literature in Gakushuin University.)&lt;br /&gt;　　The most impressive part of the program was his interviews with famous novelists such as Arthur Hailey and Sidney Sheldon. He flew to the UK and the USA. If my memory serves correctly, Sheldon said, “I try to scare my readers at every page. I want them to miss their stations or forget to go to bed because they are so absorbed in my book. Hailey said, “I always see to it that whenever I finish a chapter, I ask myself whether it has grasped the reader.”&lt;br /&gt;　　As I am fond of reading books and interested in writing fictions, the program was very interesting and inspiring. &lt;br /&gt;　　May his soul rest in peace.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6413525424249621925-3997470424740282571?l=matseye.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/feeds/3997470424740282571/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2011/06/98-in-memory-of-kiyoshi-kodama.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/3997470424740282571'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/3997470424740282571'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2011/06/98-in-memory-of-kiyoshi-kodama.html' title='[98] 追悼　児玉清さん　IN MEMERY OF KIYOSHI KODAMA'/><author><name>Hiroshi Matsuoka</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06861900310456190845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6413525424249621925.post-4778254908269404703</id><published>2011-05-20T11:03:00.009+09:00</published><updated>2011-06-07T12:03:00.993+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='disabled'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='優先席、身障者、見かけで判断'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='appearance'/><title type='text'>[97] 見かけで判断することについて　ON JUDGING OTHERS BY THEIR APPEARANCE</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;　　以下は５月１５日付け朝日新聞「声」欄に載った投稿の翻訳です。投稿者は４８歳の女性の方です。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;************************************************&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;優先席「譲りなさい」の無神経&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　わたしは大腿骨に持病があり左足に人工骨が入っています。杖をつかねばならないほどではないのですが、長時間立ち続けると痛みが生じ、電車では優先席が空いていれば座らせてもらいます。障害者手帳は持っていますが、わざわざ見せるのは気が引け、遠慮しつつ座っています。&lt;br /&gt;　先日、西武戦に乗車した時のこと、ラッシュアワーは避けていますので初めはすいており、都心に近づき、高齢の方が何人か乗ってきました。他に中年女性も乗ってきて、私と、隣の若い女性に大声で「ここ優先席よ、あの人たちに譲りなさい。まったく最近の若い子は図々しい。どきなさいよ」。隣の女性は立ち、中年女性はなお私をにらみます。いやいや手帳を見せました。見かけだけでは判断できないのに、と悲しくなりました。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;**********************************************&lt;br /&gt;　身障者の女性の方の気持ちがわかります。きっと悔しい思いをされたことでしょう。しかし、私は席を譲るように言った中年女性の方を攻める気にはなりません。目の前の女性がまさか身障者だとは、誰も気がつかなかったことでしょう。席を譲るように注意した女性の行動はその場にふさわしく、むしろ褒めるべきだと思います。&lt;br /&gt;　以前、似たような話を本で読みました。ある女性が電車に乗って座席に座りました。電車が次の駅で停車すると、三人の子供を連れた男の人が乗って来ました。男の人は疲れているようでしたが、子供達は電車の中を走り回り、大声で笑ったり、話したりしました。男の人は注意しませんし、子供達の騒ぎは少しもおさまりません。そこで、女性は我慢できず立ち上がり、父親のところに行って言いました。「お子さんが騒いでいますよ。注意して下さいませんか」&lt;br /&gt;　女の人にこう言われて初めて男の人は我に返りました。男の人は、「済みません、ボーッとしてまして。何しろ今家内が亡くなったばかりで、病院に行くところなんです。子供にはまだ話してないんですよ」と言いました。&lt;br /&gt;　女の人は状況を飲み込み、子どもの騒ぎ声が気にならなくなりました。むしろ子供達を可哀そうに思ったそうです。私はこの女の人も褒めたいと思います。&lt;/div&gt;　最近電車で、若者が優先席に我がもの顔で座ったり、大声で話したり、イヤホンから音を漏らして音楽を聞いているのは今日の日本の社会問題です。しかし、同様に問題なのは、大人（私も含めて）がそういう自己中心的な人を注意しないことです。&lt;br /&gt;　今、例に出した二人の女性は事実を知って気まずく思ったかもしれませんが、これからもどしどし言うべきことは言ってもらいたいと思います。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　　　　　ON JUDGING OTHERS BY THEIR APPEARANCE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　　This is a translation of a 48-year-old woman’s letter to the editor in the Asahi Shinbun Newspaper dated May 15. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;*********************************&lt;/div&gt;　　My left thighbone&amp;nbsp;was replaced with an artificial bone because of chronic pain. I don’t have to use a walking stick, but when I keep standing for a long time, I feel pain in the thigh. So, I usually sit on a courtesy seat&amp;nbsp;on the&amp;nbsp;train if it is vacant. I have a physical disability certificate, but it is embarrassing to show it. So, I sit on the seat with hesitation. &lt;br /&gt;　　The other day I took a train on the Seibu Line. I avoid taking trains during rush hour, so it was not crowded. I sat on the courtesy seat. As the train approached downtown, it became crowded. When it stopped at a busy station, a few elderly people and a middle-aged woman got on the train. When she saw a young woman and myself sitting on the courtesy seat, she said in a loud voice, “This is a courtesy seat. Give up your seats to the elderly people. How shameless today’s young people are! Move your ass!”&lt;br /&gt;　　The young woman stood up, but I didn’t. Then, the middle-aged woman gave me a harsh look. I reluctantly showed my certificate. I felt sad. Please do not judge others by their appearance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;**************************************&lt;/div&gt;　　I do not blame the woman who told the girl and the disabled woman to give up their seats. Few people would have thought that the woman was disabled. I would rather praise her because what she said was appropriate&amp;nbsp;for the situation.&lt;br /&gt;　　I once read in a book an episode that was similar to the woman’s behavior. This woman got on the train and sat on a seat. When the train stopped at the next station, a man and his three children got on the train. The man looked tired and sat on a seat, but the children began to run around the car laughing and talking in a loud voice. The man did not tell them to be quiet. Since the children did not stop making merry for an intolerable length of time, the impatient woman stood up, approached the man, and said, “Your children are making noise. Could you scold them?” &lt;br /&gt;　　At her request the man looked as if he had just recovered his senses. “Oh, I am sorry,” he said. “I was at a loss. My wife has just died. We are on our way to the hospital. They don’t know that she died.”&lt;br /&gt;　　The woman understood the situation. She no longer felt the children’s noise intolerable. Rather she felt sorry for them.&lt;br /&gt;　　I again praise the woman for reminding the man of his children’s bad behavior. &lt;br /&gt;　　It is a present day Japan’s problem that young people occupy the courtesy seats, talk loud, or listen to music on earphones leaking tiny noise in a train, but no less a problem is that adults (including myself) hesitate to scold such self-centered people. &lt;br /&gt;　　The two women I referred to may have been embarrassed, but I hope they will continue to speak up what is on their minds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6413525424249621925-4778254908269404703?l=matseye.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/feeds/4778254908269404703/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2011/05/give-up-your-seat-this-is-translation.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/4778254908269404703'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/4778254908269404703'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2011/05/give-up-your-seat-this-is-translation.html' title='[97] 見かけで判断することについて　ON JUDGING OTHERS BY THEIR APPEARANCE'/><author><name>Hiroshi Matsuoka</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06861900310456190845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6413525424249621925.post-7317840849150126280</id><published>2011-05-19T23:42:00.003+09:00</published><updated>2011-05-20T21:45:14.933+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='personal folly'/><title type='text'>[96] 教員時代の思い出 (大失敗）　MEMOIR FROM MY TEACHING DAYS: A PERSONAL FOLLY</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;　　　　　　　　教員時代の思い出 (大失敗）　&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　１０年ほど前、私は某私立男子校の教員でしたが、教師生命にかかわる大失敗をしでかしました。&lt;br /&gt;　当時、高校２年生を教えていました。第２回定期考査後の授業で、いつものように生徒に答案を返し、難しい問題は解説をして、解答を教えました。終業のチャイムが鳴り、授業を終えて職員室に戻りました。&lt;br /&gt;　６時ごろ学校から家に帰ろうと思った時、生徒に返した答案の点数を閻魔帳（成績表）に書き写してないことに気がつきました。大失態だ！　全生徒の答案を回収しなくてはなりません。しかし、生徒はもう下校してしまっているのです。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;続きは　&lt;a href="http://matmemoir.blogspot.com/"&gt;http://matmemoir.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;　を読んでください。&lt;br /&gt;または、このページの右下のリンク MAT'S MEMOIRをクリックしてください。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MEMOIR FROM MY TEACHING DAYS: A PERSONAL FOLLY &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　　About ten years ago when I was a private boys’ high school teacher, I made an irreparable mistake which would have ruined my teaching career. &lt;br /&gt;　　In those days I was teaching English to the eleventh graders. One day during my class after the second term examinations, I returned the students’ examination papers to them, gave them the correct answers, and explained some of the difficult questions. When the bell rang, I finished the class and returned to the teachers’ office.&lt;br /&gt;　　At around six o’clock when I was about to leave school, I suddenly realized that I had not noted each student’s exam points in my grade book. I had screwed up. I needed all the students’ test papers, but they had already gone home. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(For more, please access: &lt;a href="http://matmemoir.blogspot.com/"&gt;http://matmemoir.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;or click the link MAT'S MEMOIR at the right side.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6413525424249621925-7317840849150126280?l=matseye.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/feeds/7317840849150126280/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2011/05/96-memoir-from-my-teaching-days.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/7317840849150126280'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/7317840849150126280'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2011/05/96-memoir-from-my-teaching-days.html' title='[96] 教員時代の思い出 (大失敗）　MEMOIR FROM MY TEACHING DAYS: A PERSONAL FOLLY'/><author><name>Hiroshi Matsuoka</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06861900310456190845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6413525424249621925.post-1913341740953377638</id><published>2011-04-20T10:30:00.007+09:00</published><updated>2011-07-08T12:32:48.489+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='イッセー尾形　Issey Ogata'/><title type='text'>[94] 酸素を売る男　AN OXYGEN TANK SALESMAN</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="border: currentColor;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border: currentColor; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;酸素を売る男&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4月15日、愛知芸術センター小ホールで行われた、イッセー尾形の一人芝居を見てきました。これで二回目になります。&lt;br /&gt;５９歳のコメディアンは６人の役を演じました。公園で孫をおぶった老人、山で酸素を売る男、札幌の時計台で客を待つキャバレーのホステス、大量の返品に驚く中年社長、無駄な買い物で自己嫌悪に陥っている新幹線の中の女性、四国から北海道まで流しをしているギタリスト、パロディー「山椒太夫」の厨子王等です。&lt;br /&gt;演技が面白くて一分間に一回は笑いました。中でも酸素を売る男は面白かった。２０００メートルの山腹で、「さあ、ここが酸素が買える最後の地点だよー、一本、たった４０００円だ。値引きをしてもいいんだよー」と大声で酸素を売っているのですが、登山者は誰も買わない。とうとう販売に疲れて息絶え絶えになり、男自身が酸素を吸う破目になります。また、返品に圧倒される社長も面白かった。返品の山を見て、社長は「こんなことでくじけてどうするんだ」と社員を激励するのですが、結局は社長自身が一番やる気をなくしているのです。&lt;br /&gt;一人の役を大体１５分ほど演じると、舞台の袖に行って衣装（かつら、靴、サングラス、化粧等）を変えます。衣装掛け、鏡台、靴、道具箱、数本のペットボトルに取り囲まれて衣装を変えるのですが、観衆は変わっていく姿を刻々と見ることができます。衣装を変え終わるころには、別人に変身しているのです。舞台の照明が明るくなると、そこには新しい人間が立っているわけです。&lt;br /&gt;演じている役になり切り、自己嫌悪に陥った女性を演ずるときは、身体の動き、顔の表情、話し方など全部が、その女性になるのです。老人を演ずるときは、手足の動き、話し方の癖までが老人なのです。遠くから見ると、本当の老人が演じていると思うくらいです。&lt;br /&gt;演じている場所の表現もうまい。酸素を売る男を見たとき、本当に２０００メートルの高い山で酸素を売っていると思わせました。周りの山々を見下ろして「絶景！」と感嘆したり、遠くに富士山を見つけて有頂天になったりするのです。&lt;br /&gt;講演の後で、サインをもらい握手をしました。また見たいものです。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-L0sjB31AdaM/TbbDdCeNmPI/AAAAAAAAAmg/TaVQFZIdtVg/s1600/DVC00008.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" i8="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-L0sjB31AdaM/TbbDdCeNmPI/AAAAAAAAAmg/TaVQFZIdtVg/s400/DVC00008.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;イッセー尾形の漫画入り布巾にサイン&lt;br /&gt;Issey Ogata's signature on his caricature cloth&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cg0mBr1vR84/ThZ5m7ZpNLI/AAAAAAAAAms/oA55FOH7dDI/s1600/%25E5%25B0%25BE%25E5%25BD%25A2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cg0mBr1vR84/ThZ5m7ZpNLI/AAAAAAAAAms/oA55FOH7dDI/s320/%25E5%25B0%25BE%25E5%25BD%25A2.JPG" width="192" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;私と尾形さんとmy wife&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; ﻿﻿﻿﻿AN OXYGEN TANK SALESMAN&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I again enjoyed Issey Ogata’s one-man show for an hour and a half in the Aichi Prefectural Arts Theater on April 15. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border: currentColor;"&gt;The 59-year-old comedian performed six different characters: an old man carrying his baby grandchild on his back in a park, an oxygen tank salesman on a high mountainside, a cabaret club hostess waiting for her customer at a cold Sapporo Clock Tower, a middle-aged company president baffled by a huge amount of returns, a self-loathing woman in a Shinkansen train complaining her purchase of useless things, a young guitarist strolling from Shikoku to Hokkaido, and a parody of “Sansho Dayu (a story of a boy separated from his sister and mother).”&lt;/div&gt;His performance was so humorous that the audience laughed once every minute. I laughed at the oxygen salesman a lot. He tried to sell handy oxygen tanks to mountain climbers&amp;nbsp;on a 2,000-meter high mountainside, shouting, “This is the last spot you can get oxygen tanks. They cost only 4,000 yen each, but you can get a discount,” but no climber bought one. In the end, he himself began to breathe oxygen from a tank because he was out of breath from his hard sales work. The performance of the president was funny, too. Looking at the enormous returns, he talked to his employees not to be discouraged, but in the end he revealed that he himself was the most distressed. &lt;br /&gt;Every time Ogata finished acting a character for about 15 minutes, he went to the stage corner, where he changed his costumes from wigs to shoes to sunglasses to make-ups. You could watch how he changed his costumes amid a dress hanger, a mirror stand, shoes, boxes, and a few PET bottles. By the time he finished changing costumes, he became a completely different character. When the stage light was on, you saw a new character standing on the stage. &lt;br /&gt;He completely turned into the person he was performing. If he&amp;nbsp;was acting like a self-hating woman, his body movements, facial expressions, way of talking became those of hers. If he acted like an old man, his whole being became one. Even the movement of his hands and feet, and the speech habits were those of his. If you looked at him from a distance, you would think an old man&amp;nbsp;was performing. &lt;br /&gt;He knew exactly the place he&amp;nbsp;was acting at. When I saw him perform as an oxygen salesman, I thought as if he were really standing at the top of a 2,000-meter high mountain. The salesman gasped at the beautiful scenery looking down upon the surrounding mountains. He became hilarious to have found Mt. Fuji in the far distance. &lt;br /&gt;After the play, I got his autograph and shook hands with him. I want to see his performance again.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6413525424249621925-1913341740953377638?l=matseye.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/feeds/1913341740953377638/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2011/04/94-oxygen-tank-salesman.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/1913341740953377638'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/1913341740953377638'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2011/04/94-oxygen-tank-salesman.html' title='[94] 酸素を売る男　AN OXYGEN TANK SALESMAN'/><author><name>Hiroshi Matsuoka</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06861900310456190845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-L0sjB31AdaM/TbbDdCeNmPI/AAAAAAAAAmg/TaVQFZIdtVg/s72-c/DVC00008.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6413525424249621925.post-3539076194858681936</id><published>2011-04-12T11:44:00.006+09:00</published><updated>2011-04-19T21:46:06.203+09:00</updated><title type='text'>[93]  寝不足は失敗の元　LACK OF SLEEP IS A SOURCE OF FAILURE</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6Hj3zkog2Kg/TaPEd2ueNJI/AAAAAAAAAl8/ULrvn5LRb2U/s1600/DSCF0020.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" r6="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6Hj3zkog2Kg/TaPEd2ueNJI/AAAAAAAAAl8/ULrvn5LRb2U/s640/DSCF0020.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;　　　&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;睡眠不足は失敗の元&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　４月９日、愛知県大府市で行われた「武道演武会」に参加しました。参加団体は、剣道、柔道、空手、合気道、弓道、杖道で、私は杖道の演武をしました。杖道は２００年の歴史があり、１２４センチの棒を武器として使う武術です。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　前の晩、興奮してよく寝られませんでした。午前２時と３時頃に酒を飲みましたが、寝られません。４時に、諦めて本を読み、寝たのは４時半ごろです。明け方にどうやら眠ったようですが、７:５０分に起きたときは睡眠不足で、頭がボーとしていました。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　車を４５分間運転して、大府市スポーツセンターに着いた頃には、疲労困ぱいでした。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　各団体は午前中にリハーサルがあり、私は４つの杖道の技を練習しました。すなわち、杖道（中段）、短杖、十手、鎖鎌です。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;２:30ごろに私の出番でしたが、寝不足疲れで精神を集中することが出来ませんでした。中段、短杖、鎖鎌はうまく演武ができましたが、十手の演武のとき、頭が朦朧としていていました。十手では6本の型（右剣、左剣、残剣、蹴上、一乱剣、一声）を披露することになっていました。最初の4つの型はうまくできましたが、一乱剣のとき、動き方をド忘れしてしまいました。一乱剣は何十回も練習してきたのに、どう動くのか考えもつきませんでした。私の相手は丁度私に向かって太刀を振り下ろしたところで、相手と顔を見合わせ、演武を中断してしまいました。私はうろたえました。相手は小さな声で「太刀を振るから、飛んで」と言った瞬間、一乱剣の動きを全て思い出しました。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　演武後、なぜ失敗したのか考えました。思い出してみると、一乱剣が始まった時、「残剣は終わったのかな」とふと思い、一乱剣のことは考えていなかったのです。しかし、気がつくと、太刀が目の前に振り下ろされていたのです。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　教訓。「技事（わざごと）を演ずるときは、どんなことがあっても邪心を追い払い、今していることに集中する」&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　しかし、最も大切なことは十分な睡眠です。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;LACK OF SLEEP IS A SOURCE OF FAILURE &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　　I attended a Martial Art Performance held in Obu City, Aichi Prefecture on April 9. The program consisted of six martial arts: Kendo, Judo, Karate, Aikido (self-defense art), Kyudo (archery), and Jodo. I took part in Jodo. It is a 200-year old martial art which uses a 124 centimeter long wooden stick as a weapon. &lt;br /&gt;　　I was so excited on the previous night that I could not sleep well. I drank sake twice during the night: around 2:00 and 3:00, hoping&amp;nbsp;it would lead me to sleep, but in vain. At around 4:00, I gave up sleeping and read a book. I went to bed around 4:30. I think I fell asleep towards morning. When I awoke at 7:50, I felt tired. My mind was still sleeping.&lt;br /&gt;　　When I reached the Obu Sport Center after a 45-minute drive, I was completely exhausted. &lt;br /&gt;　　The six groups went through the rehearsal in the morning. I practiced four different Jodo techniques: chudan, tanjo (a short stick), jutte (a short metal truncheon), and chain and sickle. &lt;br /&gt;　　By the time my turn came around 2:30 in the afternoon, I was so tired that I could not concentrate. However, I successfully finished the performances of chudan, tanjo, and chain and sickle, but during the performance of jutte, my brain did not work. I was supposed to perform six techniques of jutte: Uken, Saken, Zanken, Keage, Ichiranken, and Issei. I managed to perform the first four techniques, but at Ichiranken, I forgot what to do. I had practiced it dozens of times before, but I could not think of any movement. I stood face to face with my partner who had just wielded his sword. We stopped the performance. I was embarrassed, and so was my partner. He said in a small voice, “Let’s skip the first part. I’ll wield the tachi (wooden sword), so you jump.” In that instance, I remembered everything.&lt;br /&gt;　　After the performance, I wondered why I had I failed. I remembered that when Ichiranken had started, I had been wondering whether I had finished Zanken. I was not concentrating on Ichiranken. It was too late. At that moment, the sword was just before my nose. &lt;br /&gt;　　I have learned a lesson. When you are going to demonstrate a technique, you should not, at any cost, let evil thoughts enter your mind. Concentrate on what you are doing. &lt;br /&gt;　　But the most important thing is to sleep well. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;**************************************************************&lt;br /&gt;For more information about Jodo, please access:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://misogi.org/jyo-e.htm"&gt;http://misogi.org/jyo-e.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6413525424249621925-3539076194858681936?l=matseye.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/feeds/3539076194858681936/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2011/04/93-lack-of-sleep-is-source-of-failure.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/3539076194858681936'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/3539076194858681936'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2011/04/93-lack-of-sleep-is-source-of-failure.html' title='[93]  寝不足は失敗の元　LACK OF SLEEP IS A SOURCE OF FAILURE'/><author><name>Hiroshi Matsuoka</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06861900310456190845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6Hj3zkog2Kg/TaPEd2ueNJI/AAAAAAAAAl8/ULrvn5LRb2U/s72-c/DSCF0020.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6413525424249621925.post-7372966272959193388</id><published>2011-03-29T12:07:00.009+09:00</published><updated>2011-04-19T21:55:07.092+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='graduation ceremony'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='大船渡中学校、　卒業式、故郷、Ohfunato Junor High School'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tsunami'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='evacuees'/><title type='text'>[92]　涙声のニュース　NEWS IN A TEARFUL VOICE</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;　　　　　　　　　　涙声のニュース&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　３月２１日の夕方、ラジオでＮＨＫニュースを聞いていると、午前中に行われた、岩手県の大船渡中学校の卒業式の様子が、次のように報道されていました。&lt;br /&gt;　「卒業式は教室で行われ、一人一人の生徒が、校長先生から卒業証書を受け取りました。その後、卒業生全員が避難所になっている体育館に行き……」　ここで、突然ニュースが止まり、ラジオは一分間と思われるぐらい長い間、音が聞こえなくなってしまいました。放送局の接続の故障かなと思っていると、泣き声混じりのニュースが聞こえて来ました。アナウンサーは、感無量で息が詰まってしまっているのです。それからは、涙声でニュースが一語一語、読まれていきました。&lt;br /&gt;　「卒業生たちは……『故郷』を、……およそ２００人の被災者の前で……合唱しました。合唱が終わると被災者は、大きな……拍手を送りました。被災者の中には……涙を……流している人もいました」アナウンサーは何とか最後まで原稿を読み上げました。私も泣けてきました。実は、その日の午前中に、私はテレビで卒業式を見ていて泣いていたのです。&lt;br /&gt;　多分、アナウンサーも卒業式をテレビで見ていて、ニュースを読み上げているときに思い出したのでしょう。卒業生と同い年の子供がいるのかもしれません。いや、津波で家族を亡くしていたのかもしれません。&lt;br /&gt;　わたしは、泣き声混じりのニュースを聞いたのは初めてでした。（１９３７年の、ヒンデンブルグ飛行船の落下炎上の実況中継は別です。わたしはまだ生まれていませんでした）&lt;br /&gt;　アナウンサーはニュースを読み上げるとき、感情的になってしまったことを後悔しているかもしれません。しかし後悔する必要はないのです。彼は、被災地のニュース原稿を機械的に読み上げることはできませんでしたが、それ以上のものを伝えてくれました。&lt;br /&gt;　アナウンサーだって、血も涙もあるのです　&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ueLfSklT6sk/TZFRT8mVP4I/AAAAAAAAAlw/GeM-_NLLlyQ/s1600/1f.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="305" r6="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ueLfSklT6sk/TZFRT8mVP4I/AAAAAAAAAlw/GeM-_NLLlyQ/s400/1f.gif" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;　　　　　NEWS IN A TEARFUL VOICE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　　On the evening of March 21, when I was listening to the NHK radio news, the announcer was reporting on Ohfunato Junior High School graduation ceremony, which was held in a tsunami disaster area in Iwate Prefecture. &lt;br /&gt;　　The news went like this: “The graduation ceremony was held in a classroom. Each student received his or her graduation certificate directly from the principal. After the ceremony, the graduates went to the gymnasium which was used as an evacuation shelter…” The news abruptly stopped here, and silence continued for what seemed one minute. I thought the broadcasting connection went bad, but in the next moment I heard the announcer’s sobbing voice. He was apparently choked with emotion. He forced himself to continue to read the script in a tearful voice: “They—sang—&lt;em&gt;Furusato (Sweet Home&lt;/em&gt;) in chorus in front of—about 200 evacuees. After the chorus, the evacuees—gave them—a big applause. Some of them were—shedding—tears.” He managed to read the script to the end. I was sobbing, too. &lt;br /&gt;　　To tell you the truth, on the morning of the same day, I had watched the graduation ceremony on TV and shed tears. &lt;br /&gt;　　The announcer may have watched the ceremony on TV, and remembered the scene while he was reading the script. He may have a child who was as old as the graduates. Or he may have lost his beloved family in the tsunami.&lt;br /&gt;　　I had never heard an announcer sob while he was reporting news except for the live report of the Hindenburg disaster in 1937 (I was not born yet). The announcer may have regretted that his report had been too emotional, but I don’t think he should. He conveyed far more things than the mechanical reading of the script about the disaster stricken people. &lt;br /&gt;　　After all an announcer is not a cold stone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;************************************************&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;　　　Furusato (Sweet Home) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;Translated by Hiroshi Matsuoka&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; text-indent: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; text-indent: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;This mountain where I chased rabbits.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; text-indent: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;That river where I fished tiny fish.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; text-indent: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;I remember my sweet home like a dream.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; text-indent: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;How can I forget my home?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; text-indent: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; text-indent: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;How are you getting along, my father and mother?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; text-indent: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;How are you getting along, my friends?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; text-indent: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;On the rainy day or on the windy day,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; text-indent: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;I remember my sweet home.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; text-indent: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; text-indent: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;After I achieve my ambition,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; text-indent: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;I will return to my home some day.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; text-indent: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;I see the green mountains in my home.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; text-indent: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;I see the clean rivers in my home.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; text-indent: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.5; text-indent: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"&gt;******************************************************&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6413525424249621925-7372966272959193388?l=matseye.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/feeds/7372966272959193388/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2011/03/blog-post.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/7372966272959193388'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/7372966272959193388'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2011/03/blog-post.html' title='[92]　涙声のニュース　NEWS IN A TEARFUL VOICE'/><author><name>Hiroshi Matsuoka</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06861900310456190845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ueLfSklT6sk/TZFRT8mVP4I/AAAAAAAAAlw/GeM-_NLLlyQ/s72-c/1f.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6413525424249621925.post-797440863044922524</id><published>2011-03-23T21:25:00.006+09:00</published><updated>2011-03-23T21:45:56.291+09:00</updated><title type='text'>[54] TAISHO-IKE POND  IS DISAPPEARING 大正池が消える</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;(スパムが多くて、ここへ移動しました。）2009年９月２９日&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-eyPwKkfgN7A/TYnl7QrjMkI/AAAAAAAAAlo/lq_FHwZfo1k/s1600/taishoike.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" r6="true" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-eyPwKkfgN7A/TYnl7QrjMkI/AAAAAAAAAlo/lq_FHwZfo1k/s320/taishoike.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　大正池が消える&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　9月17、18日、大学時代の友人15人と上高地に行って来た。私達は大学時代4年間日本国際学生協会のメンバーで、毎年夏に上高地に行ってキャンプをした。日中は大正池や梓川にかかっている河童橋に行き、橋から見る穂高連峰の絶景に見とれた。夜はキャンプファイアーを囲み、無数の星空の下、友と歌い、踊り、語った。&lt;br /&gt;　大正池の景色も穂高連峰と同様に美しかった。池の隣に、標高2,445メートルの荒々しい活火山、焼岳がそびえ、白樺の木が、根元を水面下にして、浅瀬に林立していた。白樺の白、焼岳の茶、樹木の緑が水面に映り、絵ハガキのようだった。&lt;br /&gt;　先日、45年ぶりに上高地に行き、大正池を見た。池の一部が周りの山からの土砂流で埋まっていると言うことは知っていたし、池の景色が損なわれているだろうと予想はしていた。 しかし、実際、池を見て大いに落胆した。元の池の姿を留めていない。すっかり変わっている。森林保護ヴァランティアの人によると、池の１０分の1が土砂で埋まったそうだ。以前水面下だったところが今は地面となり、そこに２、３本の枯れ木が立っていた。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　　　　　逆らえない　 自然の力　 池を消す&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;　　　　　姿消す　　 大正池を 　じっと見る&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;（ I moved this story here&amp;nbsp;to avoid&amp;nbsp;spams.　September 29, 2009)　 &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;　　　　　　　　　Taisho-ike Pond Is Disappearing&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;　　I went to Kamikochi Height in Nagano Prefecture with 15 friends from my university days on September 17 and 18. We belonged to the International Student Association of Japan for four years during university. Every summer we went to the height and enjoyed camping. During the day, we walked to Taisho-ike Pond and Kappa-bashi Bridge over the Azusa River. The Hodaka Mountain Range viewed from the bridge was a breathtaking beauty. In the evening, we enjoyed a campfire, singing, dancing, and talking under innumerous bright stars.&lt;br /&gt;　　The scenery of Taisho-ike Pond was no less beautiful than that of Hodaka Mountain Range. A short distance away from the pond stood a steep mountain named Yakedake, a 2,445 meter rough active volcano. A number of white birches stood in the shallow part of the pond with the bottom parts of the tree trunks below the water level. The reflection of the white birches, the brown mountain, and the green trees on the surface of the water made the pond a postcard-like beauty.&lt;br /&gt;　　I visited Kamikochi Height and saw Taisho-ike Pond after a 45-year interval. I had heard that a part of the pond had been buried by the sand and rocks which came down from the valleys of the surrounding mountains. I had expected that the scenery of the pond had been damaged.&lt;br /&gt;　　When I actually saw the pond, however, I was more than disappointed. The pond was not what it used to be. It was drastically changed. According to a forest protection volunteer, one-tenth of the pond has been buried by earth, sand, and rocks. What I saw were only a few dry trees standing on the earth which was once under water.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*************************************　　　　　　　　 &lt;br /&gt;you can't stop &lt;br /&gt;the power of nature&lt;br /&gt;Taisho-ike Pond is disappearing &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*********************************&lt;br /&gt;in the near future&lt;br /&gt;Taisho-ike Pond will disappear&lt;br /&gt;see it now or never&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;************************************&lt;br /&gt;11 コメント: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Charlie Watanabe said... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I just watched "An Inconvenient Truth" produced by Al Gore. Your essay reminded me of some of the scenes in the film...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By the way, are you coming to our reunion on Saturday? I hope to see you there. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thursday, October 15, 2009 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hiroshi Matsuoka said... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chalie,&lt;br /&gt;I am coming to the reunion. Looking forward to seeing you.&lt;br /&gt;松岡 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Saturday, October 17, 2009 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hiroshi Matsuoka said... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Charlie,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;本日（土）の同窓会はＳ２６の同窓会で、場所はダイニングバーマスカレード、幹事は内藤君、河村君、小木曽君達です。卒業アルバムを見ましたが、君の名前がありません。ひょっとすると、別の同窓会かも。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;松岡 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Saturday, October 17, 2009 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Charlie Watanabe said... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;なるほど。それは別の同窓会ですね。こちらのは松岡先生が中学校1年生から担当された私たちの学年（1980年卒業）のやつで、今晩6時からマリオットで開催されます。長谷部先生、鵜飼先生、大津先生、島本先生，家田先生も出席されるようです。残念です。またぜひ今度お食事でもしましょう。では、今日は楽しんで来てください。 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Saturday, October 17, 2009 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hiroshi Matsuoka said... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Charlie,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;偶然とはいえ、大津先生、長谷部先生は私の方の同窓会の高３の担任群でした。両先生はそちらの方に出られるんですね。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ところで、私の所にその８０年卒業同窓会の案内が来てなかったようです。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;まあ、いいか。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See you again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;松岡 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Saturday, October 17, 2009 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;uenoyama said... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ご無沙汰しております S32 上野山です。English では書込みが出来る程の能力ではないので日本語で失礼いたします。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ご退職直前に南山で再開いただきありがとうございました。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"80年卒業同窓会の案内が来てなかった"件に関しては、私の勝手な判断によるミスと思います。幹事の小谷野さんから先生の出席の了解を得ていました。言訳になってしまいますが、先生のブログは紹介いただいて以来、毎回楽しく拝読しております。その中で、同級の C.Watanabe さんとのやり取りの中に既にお話がされ、出席されるとのことでしたので、自分からの連絡は控えてしまいました。結局幹事に連絡がされてないことになり、この様な失礼な事態になったことをお詫びいたします。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;自分は信者ではありませんが、1年程前から南山教会の主日のミサに参加しており、我々卒業後に校長となった Schubert 神父様の勧めで講座をこの2カ月受講しております。ミサで、どなたか知人に会える期待も有りましたが、神父様も知らない方ばかりです。主日のミサは異次元の世界に来てしまった様で、6年通学し、道を挟んだ向こう側の事を何も知らなかったことが分かりました。 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Monday, October 19, 2009 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Charlie Watanabe said... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;誤解というのは奇妙なものですね。偶然２つの同窓会が同じ日に行われるとは。松岡先生ももうひとつの同窓会で楽しい時間を過ごされたことと思います。私たちの同窓会には多分60人以上の同窓生が出席しました。上野山君と会ったのもひょっとすると30年ぶりだったかもしれません。（違いましたっけ？）とにかく、今度一緒にお食事でもしましょう。 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tuesday, October 20, 2009 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hiroshi Matsuoka said... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;上野山くん　and Charlie,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;そちらの同窓会にも、ぜひ出席したかった。教職歴４５年間で、同窓会が同じ時間帯に重なるなんて言うのは、今だかってありませんでした。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;こちらの同窓生は５３歳で、３０人ぐらい集まりました。もう、孫がいる教え子もいて「孫がいる教え子」という概念が、頭に入りませんでした。こちらには、佐藤先生、星野先生、佐々先生が出席しました。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;上野山くん、&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;道を挟んだ向こう側のカトリックの世界の勉強とは殊勝なことです。色々異世界に接するのは良いことです。教養を深めて、人生を広く深く生きてください。ブログ、勿論日本語ＯＫです。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Charlie,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;淑徳の五島教授（スピーチ、コミュニケーション）を知っていますね。彼はこちらの同窓会生でした。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;今度の同窓会は、そちらに出席しますので、よろしく。今度はいつかな？&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See you again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;松岡 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wednesday, October 21, 2009 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Charlie Watanabe said... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;五島さんの代も松岡先生だったのですか。ものすごく驚いています。五島さんとは10年近くお付き合いがあるのに、まったく知りませんでした。世界は本当に狭いですね。ところで、次回の私たちの同窓会は多分4、5年後でしょうかね。その頃には私たちも50代になっています。是非ご参加くださいね。Good night. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Saturday, October 24, 2009 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;uenoyama said... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;次回のS32同窓会へのご出席、心からお待ち申し上げます。今回の次第によれば、ロンドンオリンピックの年となっていましたが･･･。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;渡辺君は同窓会、今回が初めてでしたっけ？自分は案内が有ったのは全て出席しています。何か学生の頃と変わらない感じがして直ぐ分かりましたよ。なので30年ぶりという気がしませんでした。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;お食事のお誘い有難うございます。また松岡先生もご一緒出来るとうれしく思います。 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tuesday, October 27, 2009 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;terra said... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;松岡先生、こんにちは&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;先生に10回書きなどあんなに英語を教えてもらっておきながら日本語で・・・&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;まっいっか（笑）&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9月は男子部文化祭の南山展にお越しいただきありがとうございました。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;とっても嬉しかったです。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;翌日は静真先生、公二先生もご来場くださいました！&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;私のブログにアップしてあります。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;さて、先生のブログを久しぶりに訪問するとここにコメントが「39」もあり何だぁ？と拝見。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;先輩方の同窓会も重なるのですね、そういえばS32のＨ先輩がマリオットって仰ってました。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ところで、スパムコメントがいっぱい。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bloggerのスパムコメント回避設定を別途メールで送ります。お試しください。 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Monday, December 28, 2009 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6413525424249621925-797440863044922524?l=matseye.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' 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/&gt;彼らには　電気がない　でも　わたしにはある&lt;br /&gt;節電が　彼等の役に　立つのだろうか&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;冷たい床で　夜を過ごす　彼等&lt;br /&gt;それなのに　わたしは　暖かい布団で寝ている&lt;br /&gt;こんな贅沢　していていいのか&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;住む家があり&lt;br /&gt;風呂に入れる&lt;br /&gt;買い物ができ&lt;br /&gt;バスにも乗れる&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;当然が　当然でなくなった&lt;br /&gt;彼等のために　何ができるか&lt;br /&gt;早い復興　祈るばかりだ&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　　　The Disaster in Tohoku, Japan&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;they have little to eat, but I have enough&lt;br /&gt;it is bliss to be able to eat a substantial meal&lt;br /&gt;they have little water, but I have enough&lt;br /&gt;how can I send this water to them?&lt;br /&gt;they are short of electricity, but I have enough&lt;br /&gt;does my saving electricity help them?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;they have to lie on a cold floor for the night&lt;br /&gt;but I sleep in a warm futon &lt;br /&gt;I feel I would be punished for these comforts&lt;br /&gt;to be able to live in a house&lt;br /&gt;to be able to take a hot bath&lt;br /&gt;to be able to go shopping&lt;br /&gt;to be able to take a bus&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;what has been natural is no longer natural&lt;br /&gt;what can I do for them?&lt;br /&gt;I only pray for the early recovery&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6413525424249621925-2012147118214932509?l=matseye.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/feeds/2012147118214932509/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2011/03/91-disaster-in-tohoku-japan.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/2012147118214932509'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/2012147118214932509'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2011/03/91-disaster-in-tohoku-japan.html' title='[91] Disaster in Tohoku, Japan  東北の大惨事'/><author><name>Hiroshi Matsuoka</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06861900310456190845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6413525424249621925.post-6949628838364283722</id><published>2011-03-03T21:46:00.004+09:00</published><updated>2011-03-10T14:17:30.648+09:00</updated><title type='text'>[90] 子どもの頃の思い出　いたずら坊主　MEMOIR OF MY CHILDHOOD A Mischievous Boy</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;　　　　　　　　子どもの頃の思い出　いたずら坊主&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　私は自分ではいたずら坊主だったとは思わないが、状況から判断すると、そうだったかも知れない。　&lt;br /&gt;　中学生のとき、私の友達が電車にひかれそうになった。美術の時間、学校を出て好きなところで絵を描いても良いと言う指示があった。勿論、学校から遠くまで行ってはならなかった。 隆と進とわたしは学校近くにある電車線路へ行った。どうしてそこに行ったかはよく覚えていないが、電車の絵を描きたかったか、学校からできるだけ離れたところに行きたかったからだろう。&lt;br /&gt;　僕達は線路わきに座って絵を描き始めた。線路の周りには背の高い草が生えていて、先生からは見つかることはなかった。僕達は絵を描いているとき電車の音が聞こえてきたら、線路から離れた。&lt;br /&gt;　暫らくして、進がチューブから絵の具を出すのに苦労していた。チューブがカチンカチンに乾いていて、いくら押しても絵の具が出てこない。隆がいい考えを思いつき、「チューブを線路に置いておけば、電車がつぶして絵の具が出てくるよ」と言った。それで、進はチューブを線路に置いて電車を待った。&lt;br /&gt;　電車が轟音を響かせて来て、チューブを一瞬でつぶし、消えて行った。線路を見た。絵の具が枕木や敷石等そこらじゅうに飛び散っていた。進は絵の具を筆につけ、意気揚々と絵を描いた。電車がチューブをつぶすとは、なんて愉快だ、スリル満点だ。そこで、僕達は幾つかチューブを線路に並べて、電車を待った。電車が来た。押しつぶした。中身が飛び出た。去って行った。面白い！　僕達はもっとチューブを線路に並べて、電車を待った。電車の音が聞こえてきて。２０メートルぐらい近づいたとき、チューブのひとつが線路から落ちた。馬鹿にも、進はチューブを戻すため線路に走った。同時に、耳をつんざくようなキキキーキーという音がした。運転手が緊急ブレーキをかけたのだ。僕達は一目散に逃げた。&lt;br /&gt;　電車は一旦速度を落としたが、止まらずにそのままスピードをあげて、消えて行った。ほっとしたが、怖くなった。駅長が校長先生に苦情電話をするに決まっている。&lt;br /&gt;　翌朝、先生からの呼び出しがなかった。運転手が危険な僕達のことを駅長に報告しなかったか、駅長が校長に電話をかけなかったかだ。&lt;br /&gt;　あの時、進は電車にひかれていたかも知れないと思うとぞっとする。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;（さらに読みたい方は、右側のリンク　MAT'S MEMOIR　を見てください）&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　　　　　MEMOIR OF MY CHILDHOOD A Mischievous Boy&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　　I don’t think I was a mischievous boy, but considering the circumstances, I have to admit it.&lt;br /&gt;　　When I was a junior high school boy,&amp;nbsp;my friend&amp;nbsp;was almost run down by a train. During fine arts class, we were allowed to go out of the school and choose any good place to draw a picture from. Of course we were not allowed to go too far away. My friends, Takashi and Susumu, and I went to railroad tracks that ran near the school. I don’t remember exactly why we went there. Probably we wanted to draw a picture of an oncoming train, or just wanted to play around away from the school. 　&lt;br /&gt;　　Anyway, we sat beside the railway tracks and began to draw a picture. There was a lot of tall grass around us and no teacher could see us. Whenever we heard a train approaching, we moved away from the tracks. &lt;br /&gt;　　After a while, Susumu had difficulty squeezing blue paint out of his paint tube. It was dry and no paint came out even if he pressed it hard. Nishimura had a good idea. He said, “Why don’t you put the tube on the railway track? The train will press it and blue paint will come out.” So, Susumu put the tube on the tracks and waited for a train. And it came with a thunderous noise, pressed the tube instantaneously, and disappeared. We saw the tracks. The blue paint splashed in all directions covering the neighboring brown railroad ties and stones. Susumu put some of the blue paint on his paint brush and cheerfully continued to draw his picture. We thought it was amusing and thrilling to have the train flatten paint tubes. So, we put some of our tubes on the track and waited for a train. It came, crushed them ejecting the content, and left. How exciting! We put some more tubes and waited for a train. We heard a train approaching. When it was 20 meters away from us, one of the tubes fell off the tracks, and Idiot Susumu ran to put it back. At the same time, we heard the strongest and loudest ear-splitting screech resonating all over. The driver of the train pulled the emergency brake. We ran and ran and ran.&lt;br /&gt;　　The train slowed down, gained speed, and disappeared. We were relieved and scared. We were sure the station master would call the school principal and complain about us. &lt;br /&gt;　　The next morning, no teacher summoned us. I don’t know whether the driver did not make a report about the dangerous boys to the station master or the master did not call our principal. &lt;br /&gt;　　I tremble to remember the incident. Susumu would have been killed by the train.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(For More. Please crick one of the links, MAT'S MEMOIR on the right side.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6413525424249621925-6949628838364283722?l=matseye.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/feeds/6949628838364283722/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2011/03/90-memoir-of-my-childhood-mischievous.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/6949628838364283722'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/6949628838364283722'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2011/03/90-memoir-of-my-childhood-mischievous.html' title='[90] 子どもの頃の思い出　いたずら坊主　MEMOIR OF MY CHILDHOOD A Mischievous Boy'/><author><name>Hiroshi Matsuoka</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06861900310456190845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6413525424249621925.post-6903433057434132215</id><published>2011-02-16T23:21:00.011+09:00</published><updated>2011-03-01T20:50:17.121+09:00</updated><title type='text'>[89]  鼻もちならない男　A SNOTTY-NOSED MAN</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;鼻もちならない男&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　６０がらみの男が理髪店に入ってきた。若い理髪師が男のところに来て「どうなさいますか」と尋ねた。&lt;br /&gt;　「ちょっと小ぎれいにしてくれや。あした、偉い人に会うことになっとるでの」と、男は店中に聞こえよがしに言った。&lt;br /&gt;　若い理髪師は客の「偉い人」と言う言葉に反応せず、散髪し始めた。&lt;br /&gt;　「で、明日会う人はな、日本で３人の偉い人に入る人なんだ」と、男は自分が偉い人になったような言い方をした。若い理髪師に、その人は誰ですかと聞いてもらいたい気持ちが見え見えだった。&lt;br /&gt;　暫らく沈黙が続いた後、「もみ上げはどうしましょう」と理髪師が聞いた。&lt;br /&gt;　「小ぎれいにしてくれと言ったろう」と男が言い返した。&lt;br /&gt;　男は理髪師が自分の言ったことに無関心なのに腹が立っていた。イライラしながら、さらに威張り腐って男は言った。&lt;br /&gt;　「偉い人の前で、みっともない格好ではいかんからの。なんてったって、その人はビップだからなぁ。だからこうして床屋に来てるんだ」&lt;br /&gt;　男は「ビップ」と言う言葉を強調した。理髪師は気が進まなかったが、　&lt;br /&gt;　「で、お客さん、明日会うのはどなたですか」と尋ねた。&lt;br /&gt;　「おぉ、いい質問するねぇ……、永平寺の大僧正だよ」&lt;br /&gt;　男は、永平寺は誰でも知っていると思っているようだった。しかし、男の期待に反して、理髪師は感嘆するどころか、「あ、そう」と言っただけだった。&lt;br /&gt;　「君、永平寺って、勿論知ってるだろ」と男は言った。&lt;br /&gt;　「いいえ。スイマセン」&lt;br /&gt;　「冗談だろ。永平寺を知らないなんて。あの有名な禅宗の道元が建てた寺だよ」&lt;br /&gt;　「ドウゲンって、誰ですか」と理髪師は言った。&lt;br /&gt;　気まずい沈黙が、永遠に続いた。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　　　　　　　　　　　俳文&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　　　　　　　　　　鼻折った&lt;br /&gt;　　　　　　　　　　　　笑いを隠せ&lt;br /&gt;　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　鏡から&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　　　　　　　　　　A SNOTTY-NOSY MAN&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　　A man around 60 years old entered a barber’s shop. A young barber attended to him and said, “How would you like your hair done?” &lt;br /&gt;　　“Just a trim. I’m going to meet a very important person tomorrow, so I want to look tidy,” the man said in such a loud voice that everybody in the shop could hear him.&lt;br /&gt;　　The young barber began to cut his hair without responding to the man’s grand words.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;　　“You see, the man I am going to meet is one of the top three Buddhist priests in Japan,” the man continued. He sounded as if he himself were an important person. Obviously he wanted the young barber to ask who he was going to meet. &lt;br /&gt;　　After a few minutes’ silence, the barber said, “How would you like your sideburns?” &lt;br /&gt;　　“I said ‘just a trim,’ didn’t I?” the man said. &lt;br /&gt;　　He was dissatisfied because the barber did not show any interest in what he had said. Impatiently he repeated with another boasting air, “I don’t want to look rude in front of him. That’s why I am here. After all, he is a VIP.” He put stress on the word ‘VIP.’ Reluctantly the barber asked,&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;　　“So, who are you going to meet tomorrow, sir?” &lt;br /&gt;　　“Ah, a good question. He is a great &lt;em&gt;dai-sojo&lt;/em&gt;* of Eheji Temple.” &lt;br /&gt;　　He sounded as if everybody in Japan knew Eheji Temple. Despite his expectation, the barber did not utter a word of admiration, but just said, “Is that so?” &lt;br /&gt;　　“Of course you know Eheji Temple, don’t you?” the man said.&lt;br /&gt;　　“No. I’m sorry.” &lt;br /&gt;　　“Are you kidding? You don’t know Eheji? That famous Zen Master Dogen founded the temple.” &lt;br /&gt;　　“Who is Dogen?” the barber said.&lt;br /&gt;　　An awkward and endless silence followed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;（Note: &lt;em&gt;dai-sojo&lt;/em&gt; is a priest of the highest rank in the hierarchy of monks in Buddhist sects）&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;em&gt;　　　　　　俳文 HAIBUN&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;　　　　　　　be careful, young barber&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;　　　　　　　　　don’t let the man see&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; your giggle &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6413525424249621925-6903433057434132215?l=matseye.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/feeds/6903433057434132215/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2011/02/89-ass-in-lions-skin.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/6903433057434132215'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/6903433057434132215'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2011/02/89-ass-in-lions-skin.html' title='[89]  鼻もちならない男　A SNOTTY-NOSED MAN'/><author><name>Hiroshi Matsuoka</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06861900310456190845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6413525424249621925.post-2931494698265194956</id><published>2011-02-12T13:10:00.004+09:00</published><updated>2011-02-12T22:29:05.368+09:00</updated><title type='text'>[88] コンピューター・ワーム　COMPUTER WORM</title><content type='html'>　　　　　　　　　　COMPUTER WORM &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;（中日新聞　３００字小説応募作品　日本語訳は暫くお待ちください）&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　　Recently my notebook computer was malfunctioning: it took too long a time to boot it; Word documents turned into garbled characters; youtube videos did not run; and Internet connection did not work, either. I thought it had gotten some computer worms. So, I tried to remove them by anti-virus software, but failed. Next I tried to recover it, but in vain. I had no choice but to bring it to a home appliance retailer and ask them to fix it. &lt;br /&gt;　　A week later, I went to the retailer only to find that it was impossible to fix it for some unknown reasons. Discouraged, I went back home with the machine, opened the lid, and switched it on. Believe it or not, I saw a tiny worm coming out of the side of the return key on the key board. Mercy! The worm had been eating my computer. It was, by the way, an Apple.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6413525424249621925-2931494698265194956?l=matseye.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/feeds/2931494698265194956/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2011/02/87-computer-worm.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/2931494698265194956'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/2931494698265194956'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2011/02/87-computer-worm.html' title='[88] コンピューター・ワーム　COMPUTER WORM'/><author><name>Hiroshi Matsuoka</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06861900310456190845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6413525424249621925.post-3348039058828316930</id><published>2011-02-08T22:32:00.009+09:00</published><updated>2011-02-20T20:38:29.276+09:00</updated><title type='text'>[87] 兄ちゃんの想いで　MEMOIR OF MY BROTHER</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CtqEIOLuaKM/TVXpom784SI/AAAAAAAAAlM/pTr73Mo_bYw/s1600/%25E7%2584%25A1%25E9%25A1%258C.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" h5="true" height="258" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CtqEIOLuaKM/TVXpom784SI/AAAAAAAAAlM/pTr73Mo_bYw/s400/%25E7%2584%25A1%25E9%25A1%258C.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Bo8aoBH8gQM/TVFFMQOzgsI/AAAAAAAAAlE/asTFfC9nTjo/s1600/aso_45.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" h5="true" height="162" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Bo8aoBH8gQM/TVFFMQOzgsI/AAAAAAAAAlE/asTFfC9nTjo/s400/aso_45.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　　　　　　　　　　　　&amp;nbsp; 兄ちゃんの思い出&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　まだ兄も私も小学生だった頃、駒野駅（母の実家の最寄り駅）に行く電車の中で科学の実験をしたことがあります。僕達は電車のベンチ式座席に並んで座っていました。&lt;br /&gt;　気がつくと、兄は何度もボールを放り投げては受け止めているのです。受け止める度に、頭をかしげ、何か疑問に思っているようでした。兄は、わたしにボールを放りあげさせ、わたしの手とボールの動きをじっと観察しました。兄はわたしに、「ボールを捕るとき絶対に手を横にずらしてはいけない」と言うんです。わたしは何やってるんだろうと思いました。兄曰く、「どうしてボールが手に落ちてくるんだろ。いいかい、ボールが空中に飛んでいる間、電車は走ってるんだ。だから、ボールは手に落ちなくて、後ろの方に落ちるはずだ。でも、後ろには落ちない。おかしいなぁ」わたしはやっと兄の疑問が分かりました。兄はわたしからボールを取り、またできるだけ高く、電車の天井に届くぐらい、放りあげました。空中に飛んでいる時間を最大限伸ばすためです。でも、何度やっても、ボールはちゃんと手に落ちてくるんです。&lt;br /&gt;　僕たちの向かい側に座っている人達は、面白がって僕達を見ていました。僕達が単にボール遊びをしているんだ、と思っていたかも知れません。でも、僕達が、不思議だ、どうしてだろう、と言っているやり取りを聞いたはずです。なのに、誰も「坊やたち、何してるんだい」と聞いてくる人はいません。多分、この物理現象を僕達に分かりやすく説明する自信がなかったのでしょう。&lt;br /&gt;　さて、高校で物理を習った者として、この二人の豆科学者に私から説明してみようと思いますが、うまく行きますか。&lt;br /&gt;　私は椅子から立ち上がり、兄弟のところへ行き、「君達、おかしいなぁと思ってるんだね。ボールがどうして後ろに落ちてこないか不思議に思ってるんだろ。じゃあ、おじさんが説明してあげよう。まずね、坊やが手に持っているボールは、電車と同じスピードで、電車と一緒に前へ動いているんだよ。このこと分かるね。だから、ボールが空中に放りあげられると、上だけじゃなくて、電車が走っている方向にも飛んでるんだ。で、田んぼで、この電車を見ている人がいるとするね。坊やがボールを放りあげると、その人からは、ボールが真上に上って、真下に落ちてくるようには見えないんだ。実際に見えるのは、ボールが電車の中で曲線を描いて飛んでいるいるように見えるんだ」　&lt;br /&gt;　うーむ、説明が難しい。これで坊やたちは分かっただろうか。ちゃんと図解して説明してやった方がいいだろうなぁ。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; mso-char-indent-count: 1.0; text-indent: 12pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;子供だったとき、兄とトランプ、双六、将棋、相撲、コマ回し、凧揚げ、割り箸鉄砲などでよく遊びました。一番面白かったのは割り箸鉄砲です。割り箸３個とゴム輪があれば鉄砲を作ることができます。まず、割り箸を割って、３センチぐらいの引き金を二本の箸の間に挟み、ゴム輪で固定します。６センチほどの箸を二本三角形に組んで、握りをつけ、輪ゴムで固定します。これで出来上がりです。ゴム輪の一方を銃口にかけ、引き伸ばして他方を引き金にかけます。引き金を引くと、ゴム輪は２，３メートル飛びます。マッチ箱を２メートル先に立てて、狙いを定めて引き金を引けば、名射手なら、マッチを倒すことができます。マッチを倒した者は、マッチの周りに落ちている当たらなかったゴム輪を獲得できるのです。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;ＭＳ ゴシック&amp;quot;; mso-hansi-font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;　　　　　　　　　　&lt;br /&gt;　　　　　　　　　　　　　MEMOIR OF MY BROTHER&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;　　One summer day when we were elementary school boys, my brother, Tadakazu,&amp;nbsp;and I had a scientific experiment during the train ride to Komano Station (the nearest railway station from our mother’s parents’ home). We were sitting on a bench seat side by side. &lt;br /&gt;　　Before I knew it, I found my brother repeatedly throwing up and catching a ball in the train. He tilted his head every time he tossed and caught the ball. He looked puzzled. He then let me do the same action again and again looking at my hand and the ball simultaneously. He was making sure that I did not move my hand sideways even an inch the moment I caught it. I wondered what he was doing. He said, “I don’t understand why the ball drops in your hand. You see, while the ball is in the air, the train is moving fast. So it must fall on somewhere behind instead of your hand, but it doesn’t. Isn’t it strange?” I understood what he was wondering about. My brother took the ball from me and threw it as high as possible, almost touching the ceiling of the train so that the ball had plenty of time to stay in the air. But try as he might, the ball dropped exactly in his hand. &lt;br /&gt;　　The passengers sitting opposite us were curiously looking at us. Some of them might have thought that we were just playing with the ball, but obviously they must have heard our puzzled conversation. However, no passengers dared to interrupt us to ask what we were doing. Maybe they did not have confidence to explain the physical phenomenon easily enough for us to understand. &lt;/div&gt;　　Now as an adult who has studied physics in high school, I hope I can explain the phenomenon in an understandable way for the scientific-minded boys. &lt;br /&gt;　　I would stand up from my seat, approach the brothers, and say to them, “Hi, boys, I know what you are puzzled about. You want to know why the ball doesn’t fall behind, don’t you? Let me explain. First, you must recognize that while you are holding the ball in your hand, it is moving as fast as the train. Therefore, when you throw it up in the air, it moves not only upward but also forward in the direction the train travels. Suppose a man is standing on the rice field looking at the train. When you throw up the ball, he does not see it go up and come down vertically. Instead, he sees it flying&amp;nbsp;in an arc.” &lt;br /&gt;　　Well, it is difficuI to explain the phenomenon&amp;nbsp; to them. I hope my explanation would satisfy the boys. &lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック;"&gt;I should draw a picture of how the ball moves in the train.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　　In our childhood, my brother and I played a lot together: card games, &lt;em&gt;sugoroku&lt;/em&gt; or snakes and ladders, &lt;em&gt;shogi&lt;/em&gt; or Japanese chess, &lt;em&gt;sumo&lt;/em&gt; wrestling, top spinning, kite flying, and toy pistols. The most amusing of all was playing with chopstick pistols. All we needed to make one was three pairs of chopsticks and rubber bands. Snap a pair of chopsticks and put a trigger or an-inch-long chopstick between the two chopsticks and bind them with a rubber band. Attach the handle with rubber bands by fixing two 2-inch-long chopsticks in a triangle. That is all, and you can play chopstick pistols. You stretch a rubber band from the gunpoint to the trigger. When you pull the trigger, the band is released and jumps two or three meters forward. Stand a matchbox two meters away from you. Aim at it and pull the trigger. If you are a good shot, you can knock the matchbox down. The winner of the gun-shooting game can collect all the rubber bands that have missed to hit the matchbox and lay around it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6413525424249621925-3348039058828316930?l=matseye.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/feeds/3348039058828316930/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2011/02/87-memoir-of-my-brother.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/3348039058828316930'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/3348039058828316930'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2011/02/87-memoir-of-my-brother.html' title='[87] 兄ちゃんの想いで　MEMOIR OF MY BROTHER'/><author><name>Hiroshi Matsuoka</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06861900310456190845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CtqEIOLuaKM/TVXpom784SI/AAAAAAAAAlM/pTr73Mo_bYw/s72-c/%25E7%2584%25A1%25E9%25A1%258C.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6413525424249621925.post-6396753365634241650</id><published>2011-01-26T22:50:00.003+09:00</published><updated>2011-02-04T12:46:57.332+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Confucius Vietnam Hanoi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Chinese characters'/><title type='text'>[86] ベトナムの漢字　Chinese Characters in Vietnam</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Bo8aoBH8gQM/TUt1t40GjZI/AAAAAAAAAlA/Pu7Rx1E5mQY/s1600/imagesCAW2RA29.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" h5="true" height="239" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Bo8aoBH8gQM/TUt1t40GjZI/AAAAAAAAAlA/Pu7Rx1E5mQY/s320/imagesCAW2RA29.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Bo8aoBH8gQM/TUAmsUTt2_I/AAAAAAAAAk4/OWs8kU9-Oeo/s1600/P10200051.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" s5="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Bo8aoBH8gQM/TUAmsUTt2_I/AAAAAAAAAk4/OWs8kU9-Oeo/s320/P10200051.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Bo8aoBH8gQM/TUAmi2NzS6I/AAAAAAAAAk0/hIve07q-z24/s1600/P10200111.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" s5="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Bo8aoBH8gQM/TUAmi2NzS6I/AAAAAAAAAk0/hIve07q-z24/s320/P10200111.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;ヴェトナムの漢字&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　ハノイ（ヴェトナム）で意外だったのは１０７０年に建てられた孔子廟です。廟の境内に立つと、周りが全部中国様式で中国にいるような錯覚に陥りました。&lt;br /&gt;　廟の中に入って、赤いレンガ造りの建物に驚きました。日本か中国のお寺のようです。どうして中国式の建物がハノイにあるのかと思いました。しかしよく考えると、孔子や中国文化がヴェトナムに影響を与えていたのです。&lt;br /&gt;　廟の前には人名が彫られた50~60本の石碑がありました。科挙合格者名簿です。文字は漢字で彫られていたので、大体意味が分かりました。合格者の誇りが漢字を通じて伝わってくるようでした。&lt;br /&gt;　廟の中に入ると、赤と金色の高さ三メートルの座像が三体ありました。孔子、孟子、老子像です。日本ではこの三人の思想家について高校で習います。座像の後ろには漢字で書かれた巻物がありました。&lt;br /&gt;　石碑が漢字で彫られていたのだから、当時のヴェトナム人は漢字を理解していたわけです。今では、漢字は廃止されヴェトナム語に変わっています。韓国朝鮮でも同様です。600年前、朝鮮人は漢字を使っていましたが、今ではハングル文字を使っています。&lt;br /&gt;　漢字を使って韓国朝鮮人やヴェトナム人と意思の疎通ができないのは残念です。自国独自の言語を制定し、国家のアイデンティティを示す意義は分かりますが、独自言語のため、中国人、台湾人、ヴェトナム人、日本人の間のコミュニケーションができなくなっています。&lt;br /&gt;　しかし、中国の経済成長は目覚ましく、漢字がこれら四カ国だけでなく広く世界に広まっていくでしょう。ヴェトナムや韓国朝鮮で漢字が廃止されたことを嘆くのは取り越し苦労でしょう。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　　　　　　　　　　CHINESE CHARACTERS IN VEITNAM&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　　One of the most surprising things that I saw in Hanoi, Vietnam, was the Temple of Confucius, which was built in 1070. Standing in the temple grounds I thought as if I were in China, because everything that surrounded me was Chinese.&lt;br /&gt;　　First, when I entered the temple, I was astonished by red tile-roofed buildings. They were like Japanese or Chinese temples. I wondered why such Chinese style buildings were standing in Hanoi. On second thought, I realized the influence of Confucius and Chinese culture on Vietnam.&lt;br /&gt;　　Next, in front of the temple, I saw 50 or 60 steles on which persons’ names were inscribed. They were for those who had successfully passed the Kakyo or Civil Service Examinations, which are comparable to Tokyo University Entrance Examinations. The letters were all inscribed in Chinese characters, most of which I was able to comprehend. The inscriptions conveyed to me the pride of the successful candidates.&lt;br /&gt;　　When I entered the temple building, I was astonished by three 3-meter-high seated images decorated with red and golden clothes. They were the statues of Confucius, Mencius, and Lao-tze. Japanese students study about these three great Chinese philosophers in high school. At the backside of the statues, I saw some old scrolled documents written in Chinese characters.&lt;br /&gt;　　The Chinese characters on the steles indicated that Vietnamese people understood Chinese characters, but now they have been replaced with the Vietnamese language. The same is true with Korea. Just six hundred years ago they were using Chinese characters but now they are using Hangeul.&lt;br /&gt;　　It is a pity that I cannot communicate with Koreans or Vietnamese using Chinese characters. I understand the importance of national identity by establishing their original languages, but they are hindrance for the communication among Chinese, Taiwanese, Vietnamese, and Japanese.&lt;br /&gt;　　However, maybe, because of the Chinese economic development, Chinese characters will prevail not only in these four countries but also all over the world. 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text-align: center;"&gt;船内　INSIDE THE JUNK&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　　　　　　　　　　　　ほんと困った&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　去年の１２月、ベトナムのハロン湾クルーズ船で昼食中、困ってしまって、食事を中断したことがある。というのは、知らないうちに、５歳ぐらいの女の子が、長さ２０メートル、幅８メートルぐらいの中国船によじ登り、外から私の座席のそばの窓を開け、窓枠に座っていたのだ。女の子は身体を前かがみにして私と料理を見て、「一ドル、一ドル」と言ってバナナを売りだした。&lt;br /&gt;　船内料理を食べようとしていた矢先で、テーブルの上には大きな海老や貝、野菜、ご飯、麺類、海鮮スープ、春巻き、ビールがのっていた。みすぼらしい身なりをした女の子にとっては、恐らく、家ではめったに食べられない料理だろう。&lt;br /&gt;　私は手と唇を汚したまま、あわてて海老を皿の上に置き、「ダメ、ダメ、ダメ」と言って、手を女の子の顔の前で振った。しかし、女の子は「一ドル、一ドル」と何度も何度も言い、私は困ってしまった。５分ぐらいして、女の子は諦めて後ろの窓に移って行った。私はホッとしたけれど、バナナを買わなくて本当に良かったのかと自問した。&lt;br /&gt;　アンコールワットで、妻はしつこい女の子に根負けして絵はがきセットを買った。この子は妻にぴたりと寄り添って「買って、買って」とせがみながら１０メートルぐらい歩いていたのだ。妻は買った絵はがきを私に見せてくれた。見ると１０枚全ての絵はがきが手あかで汚れ、４つの角がすり切れており、いかにも使い古された絵はがきといった感じだった。きっと女の子は絵はがきを何日も何週間も手に握りしめていたのであろう。ケースから一枚一枚を取りだして、「一枚、二枚、三枚……」と、観光客の顔前で、数えたのだろう。幾たび女の子は絵はがきケースを開け、幾たび閉じたことであろう。絵はがきの手あかがそれを物語っている。妻の周りに他の子達が急いで集まり、もっと買ってとせがんでいた。&lt;br /&gt;　数年前、タイのアユタヤ遺跡に行った時、私は絵はがきを売っていた中年女性に、こっぴどく叱られたことがある。女性はカンカンに怒って、「どうしてワタシからかってくれなかったの？　あんたって、最低の男！」と私をけなした。私は女性に謝った。実は、私は、この女性から絵はがきを買わずに、しつこさの権現のような別　バナナだって絵はがきだって、買おうと思えば買えたのだが、売り子達が売っている品を全部買うわけにはいかない。一人の女の子に一ドルあげることならできる、しかし他の女の子や男の子に対しては何ができると言うのだ。&lt;br /&gt;　海外旅行で困るのは、必死で生活の糧を稼いでいる人達を見ることだ。彼らの事情は分かっているつもりだが、どうしていいかは分からない。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　　　　　　　　　　SO EMBARRASSING&lt;br /&gt;　&lt;br /&gt;　　I was so embarrassed that I stopped eating lunch during a Halong Bay cruise in Vietnam last December. Before I knew it, a girl of about five years old had climbed the 20-meter-long, 8-meter-wide junk, opened the window beside me from outside, and sat on the window frame. She leaned over looking at me and the dishes, and tried to sell some bananas, saying, “One dollar, one dollar.” &lt;br /&gt;　　I was just beginning to eat lunch served&amp;nbsp;on the boat. There were various rich dishes including big shrimp, large shellfish, vegetables, rice, noodles, sea food soup, egg rolls, and a glass of beer on my table. The poorly-clad little girl saw the dishes her family could, I guess, never afford to eat.&lt;br /&gt;　　I put a half eaten shrimp on the dish hurriedly with my wet hand and lips, and waved my hand&amp;nbsp;in her face saying, “No, no, no. no.” She said, “One dollar” again and again looking into my troubled face. After five minutes or so, she finally gave up and moved to the window behind me. I was relieved, but I blamed myself for not buying her bananas.&lt;br /&gt;　　In the ruins of Angkor Wat, my wife gave in to the persistent pleading of a girl who walked along with her for more than 10 meters, asking her to buy a set of picture postcards. She finally bought and showed it to me. All the ten postcards were hand-stained with the four corners worn out. They looked like second-hand postcards. The girl must have kept clutching them for days or weeks. She must have opened the postcard case, taken out each postcard from it one by one, counting, “one, two, three, …” and showed each picture to tourists’ faces. How many times had she opened and closed it? The stain told the story. I saw some other children hurriedly gather around my wife and ask her to buy more.&lt;br /&gt;　　When I was in Ayuthea ruins in Thailand years ago, I was severely scolded by a middle-aged woman selling&amp;nbsp;postcards. She was furious and condemned me, “Why didn’t you buy the postcards from ME!? You, son of a bitch!” I apologized to her. I had refused to buy the postcards from her, but later I was forced to buy some from another woman who was&amp;nbsp;the embodiment of persistency.&lt;br /&gt;　　I could have bought the bananas and the postcards, but I couldn’t buy all the things they were selling. I could have given one dollar to one girl, but what could I do to the other girls and boys? &lt;br /&gt;　　I am always embarrassed when I go abroad and see those people desperate in earning a living. I understand their situation, but I don’t know what to do.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6413525424249621925-4005535895316256668?l=matseye.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/feeds/4005535895316256668/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2011/01/85-so-embarrassing.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/4005535895316256668'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/4005535895316256668'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2011/01/85-so-embarrassing.html' title='[85] ほんと困った　SO EMBARRASSING'/><author><name>Hiroshi Matsuoka</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06861900310456190845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Bo8aoBH8gQM/TS8K69BBlzI/AAAAAAAAAkY/vIb6DKfbitk/s72-c/IMGP0800.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6413525424249621925.post-1319021079322459941</id><published>2010-12-24T22:17:00.009+09:00</published><updated>2011-01-20T22:43:06.883+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='カラカウア、ハワイ'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='kalakaua'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='atheist'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='King James Bible'/><title type='text'>[84]　激論　HEATED ARGUMENT</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Bo8aoBH8gQM/TRShf6udVtI/AAAAAAAAAj4/WnISpOp1Pzg/s1600/DSCF0015.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" n4="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Bo8aoBH8gQM/TRShf6udVtI/AAAAAAAAAj4/WnISpOp1Pzg/s320/DSCF0015.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　　　　　　　　　　激論&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　１１月初めハワイに滞在していた時、夕方よくカラカウア通りを歩いて色々な街頭商人を見かけました。絵描き、占師、似顔絵画家、手品師、ブレイクダンサー、楽器演奏者などですが、中でも一番面白かったのは黒人宣教師です。&lt;br /&gt;　ある晩、午後９時３０分頃、カラカウア通りを歩いていると、１５人ぐらいの人が二人の人を囲んでいました。一人は中年黒人で、もう一人は白人の若者でした。黒人は麦わら帽をかぶり、白い短パンをはき、左手に聖書を持ち、右手をひっきりなしに動かしながら神について話していました。宣教師は呼吸する時間も惜しいかのように口から泡を飛ばし、速い英語でまくし立てていました。宣教師に対立していたのは若い白人で、宣教師に負けず劣らずエネルギッシュで、髪はブロンド、両腕とも刺青が彫られ、ピンクのシャツを着ていました。若者も宣教師と同じぐらい速く英語を話し、速く話す方が議論の勝者になるかの如く猛烈な勢いで話していました。両者とも同時に、強い口調で、激しく、大声で、神について論じていました。話を聞いていると、欽定訳聖書、進化、ダーウィン、科学、バプティスト、キリスト、イスラム教などという言葉が聞き取れ、さらに議論のための用語、たとえば、「あなたね、まだ私の質問に答えてませんよ」「今は私が話しているんだ」「ちぐはぐだ」「偽善者め」とか言っていました。時々見物人も議論に入り宣教師とやり合っていました。&lt;br /&gt;　残念ながら、私の英語力では機関銃英語を理解することはできず、隣に立っている人に「二人は何を議論しているんですか」と尋ねました。隣の人は、黒人の方は神が存在すると言い、白人の方は無神論者ですと答えてくれました。あまりにも面白い、熱烈な議論で、わたしは３０分はそこに立って聞いていました。&lt;br /&gt;　女の子がアイフォーンに議論を録音していました。わたしも、後から聞きなおすことができるように録音機を持ってくればよかったと思いました。もっと聞いていたかったのですが、１０時近くになってしまい、後ろ髪を引かれる思いでホテルに戻りました。ベッドに横になっても、しばらく大議論が耳もとで鳴り響いていました。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　　　　　　　　　　HEATED ARGUMENT&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　　I was staying in Hawaii in early November. I often strolled along Kalakaua Street in the evening watching street vendors such as painters, fortune tellers, street artists, magicians, break dancers, and musicians. Among them the most interesting was a black preacher.&lt;br /&gt;　　While I was walking along the street around 9:30 one evening, I happened to see a crowd of about 15 people surrounding two people, one a middle-aged black man, the other a young white man. The black man was wearing a straw hat, a brown shirt, and white shorts. He was holding a bible in his left hand and talking about God incessantly moving his right hand. Out of his mouth rushed a torrent of rapid English as if he had no time to waste for drawing a breath. Confronting the energetic preacher was a young white man, no less energetic, blond-haired, his arms tattooed, and clad in a pinkish shirt. He spoke as rapidly as the preacher as if speaking speed would decide the winner of the confrontation. Often they were speaking at the same time in a strong, harsh, loud voice. &lt;br /&gt;　　They were arguing about God. Their argument involved such words as the King James Bible, evolution, Darwin, science, Baptist, Christ, Moslems, and other argumentative words like “You have not answered my question,” “I’m talking,” “inconsistent,” and “hypocrite.” Sometimes some of the by-standers spoke their opinions&amp;nbsp;arguing with the preacher. &lt;br /&gt;　　Alas, my English ability was not competent enough to understand their machine-gun English. I asked the man standing next to me, “What are their basic arguments?” He said that the black man was trying to persuade that God existed and that the white man was an atheist. It was such an interesting and heated argument that I remained standing listening to them for more than 30 minutes. &lt;br /&gt;　　A girl was recording their argument on her i-phone. I should have brought a recording gadget so that I could have reviewed the argument. I wanted to stay longer but it was almost 10 o’clock and went back to my hotel with a strong reluctance. Even after I lay down on my bed, their heated words continued to resonate in my ears for a while.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6413525424249621925-1319021079322459941?l=matseye.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/feeds/1319021079322459941/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2010/12/i-was-staying-in-hawaii-in-early.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/1319021079322459941'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/1319021079322459941'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2010/12/i-was-staying-in-hawaii-in-early.html' title='[84]　激論　HEATED ARGUMENT'/><author><name>Hiroshi Matsuoka</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06861900310456190845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Bo8aoBH8gQM/TRShf6udVtI/AAAAAAAAAj4/WnISpOp1Pzg/s72-c/DSCF0015.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6413525424249621925.post-8425735380311632515</id><published>2010-12-24T17:11:00.016+09:00</published><updated>2011-01-30T22:07:35.785+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Kamehameha'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='カメハメハ王、イオラニ宮殿'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='battle of nuuanu'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iolani'/><title type='text'>[83]　ヌアヌの闘い　Battle of Nu'uanu</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Bo8aoBH8gQM/TRSR-PXwDcI/AAAAAAAAAjA/LFQksmSafPY/s1600/Battle%2Bof%2BNu%2527uanu.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Bo8aoBH8gQM/TRSR-PXwDcI/AAAAAAAAAjA/LFQksmSafPY/s400/Battle%2Bof%2BNu%2527uanu.gif" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Painting by Herb Kawainui Kane&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Bo8aoBH8gQM/TRSR-XbPTqI/AAAAAAAAAjI/7ee8_Bn8DdA/s1600/NuuanuPali.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="267" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Bo8aoBH8gQM/TRSR-XbPTqI/AAAAAAAAAjI/7ee8_Bn8DdA/s400/NuuanuPali.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　ヌアヌの戦い&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　ハワイ滞在中に、イオラニ宮殿（ハワイ王公邸）を訪れました。一階の大広間、二階の王の執務室や寝室、地階の展示室を見て、最後に土産品店を覗いたところ、ハワイ史の本にショッキングな絵が載っていました。断崖絶壁で戦われた戦闘場面の絵で、戦闘中の兵士は崖の上で寿司詰め状態になり、絶壁から落下していく兵士もいました。&lt;br /&gt;　前日、オアフ島一周観光をしましたが、ある地点でガイドが車を止めて、「ここはハワイ最大の戦闘がなされた戦場の近くです」と言いました。わたしはガイドの言うことをいい加減に聞いていて、「ああ、古戦場ね、面白くもない」と思っていました。しかし、ショッキングな絵を見てガイドが言っていたのは、この戦場のことだと直感しました。&lt;br /&gt;　日本に帰り、インターネットでこの戦闘について調べ、「ヌアウの闘い」だと分かりました。&lt;br /&gt;　１７９５年、カメハメハはマウイ島とモロカイ島を征服し、オアフ島に侵攻しました。侵攻の最終段階で、カメハメは大砲の玉をオアフ島軍の頭上に雨のように降らせました。オアフ島軍はヌアウ峡谷からヌアウパリの崖の方に追いやられました。侵略軍と３００メートルの断崖に挟まれて、４００人以上のオアフ島兵士がパリの崖から飛び降りたり、押されて落下しました。カメハメハに降伏するより、むしろ崖から飛び降りる方を選んだとも言われています。パリ高速道路の建設中に崖のふもとから、多くの散乱した骸骨が発見されました。&lt;br /&gt;　その後、カメハメハは「太平洋のナポレオン」と呼ばれるようになりました。ナポレオンの様な偉大な指揮官は多大な犠牲の上に勝利を獲得しています。カメハメハも例外ではなかったのです。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　&lt;br /&gt;追伸&lt;br /&gt;　カメハメハの残忍さだけを指摘するのは不公平ですので、付け加えておきますが、彼は1797年に「道端のお年寄り、女性、子供に危害を加えてはいけない」という法律を制定しました。この法律は、戦場における民間人や非戦闘員の扱いに関する人権法の現代のモデルとなっています。　&lt;br /&gt;　　　　　　　　　　&lt;br /&gt;　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Battle of Nu'uanu　&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　　While I was staying in Hawaii, I visited the Iolani Palace, the official residence of Hawaii’s monarchy. I saw the first floor state rooms, second floor private quarters, and the basement gallery exhibits. At the end of the tour I dropped in at the souvenir shop, where I happened to see a shocking picture in a book about Hawaiian history. It was a picture of a battle which took place on a steep cliff. The combating soldiers were jam-packed on the cliff, some falling over the edge. &lt;br /&gt;　　On the previous day, I took a tour around Oahu Island. At one spot the guide stopped the car and said, “This is near a famous battle sight where the fiercest fighting took place.” At that time I was not paying attention to the guide. I thought, “Ah, one of those battle fields. Not so interesting.” However, when I saw the shocking picture, I instantly associated it with the guide’s explanation. &lt;br /&gt;　　After I came back to Japan, I looked up the battle on the Internet and found that it was called Battle of Nu'uanu.&lt;br /&gt;　　In 1795, Kamehameha, who had conquered the islands of Maui and Molokai invaded Oahu. During the final stage of the invasion, Kamehameha's cannons rained fire down on the Oahu army. The Oahu defenders slowly fell back through the Nuʻuanu Valley to the cliffs at Nuʻuanu Pali. Caught between the invader’s army and a 1000-foot (300 meters) drop, over 400 Oahu warriors either jumped or were pushed over the edge of the Pali. It is said that they chose to fall to their deaths rather than submit to Kamehameha. During construction of the Pali Highway, piles of skeletons were found jumbled at the foot of the cliffs.&lt;br /&gt;　　Later, Kamehameha earned the epithet "Napoleon of the Pacific."&amp;nbsp; Great military leaders like Napoleon gained&amp;nbsp;their victories at the sacrifice of many lives. It is a pity that&amp;nbsp;Kamehameha was no exception.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;P.S. It may be unfair to point out only Kamehameha's cruelty. Therefore, let me add that he declared a new law in 1797: "Let every elderly person, woman and child lie by the roadside in safety." The law has become a model for modern human rights law regarding the treatment of civilians and other non-combatants during battle.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6413525424249621925-8425735380311632515?l=matseye.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/feeds/8425735380311632515/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2010/12/battle-of-nuuanu.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/8425735380311632515'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/8425735380311632515'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2010/12/battle-of-nuuanu.html' title='[83]　ヌアヌの闘い　Battle of Nu&apos;uanu'/><author><name>Hiroshi Matsuoka</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06861900310456190845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Bo8aoBH8gQM/TRSR-PXwDcI/AAAAAAAAAjA/LFQksmSafPY/s72-c/Battle%2Bof%2BNu%2527uanu.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6413525424249621925.post-1527286760201329766</id><published>2010-11-30T22:31:00.019+09:00</published><updated>2010-12-29T23:38:38.771+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='宇津の谷　秀吉　馬の沓　utsunoya'/><title type='text'>[82]　お羽織の由来　ORIGIN OF THE BATTLE SURCOAT</title><content type='html'>&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5546098560943158354" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Bo8aoBH8gQM/TPezQbZSdFI/AAAAAAAAAhE/-Iu4dv1PruY/s400/060914_02_img_03.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 210px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 175px;" /&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547187701352476978" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Bo8aoBH8gQM/TPuR0vmHsTI/AAAAAAAAAic/Hi74yIJzG9A/s320/uma_06.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 308px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 157px;" /&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5546098762802232578" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Bo8aoBH8gQM/TPezcLYPfQI/AAAAAAAAAhM/M5dDsz2P6y0/s200/2hors.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 132px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 167px;" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　１１月２０日、私は大学時代の友人と静岡県の宇津の谷に行き、お羽織屋で豊臣秀吉の陣羽織を見ました。以下は、パンフレットに書いてある「お羽織の由来」を翻訳したものです。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　　　　　　　　　　　　　お羽織の由来&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　　東海道　宇津の谷&lt;br /&gt;　　お羽織屋　石川家 (静岡市駿河区宇津ノ谷１７１　石川晴道)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　天正１８年（１５９０年）３月、小田原の北条氏征伐のため、東海道を下った豊臣秀吉は、この地にさしかかり、石川家の軒下につるしてあった馬の沓に目をとめて、使い古した自分の沓と取り換えようとしました。&lt;br /&gt;　ところが、主人は三脚分しか差し出さなかったので、「馬の脚は、四本なのにどういうわけか」と尋ねました。「申し上げます。差し上げた三脚分の馬の沓は、道中安全をお祈り申し上げたものでございます。残る一脚分でお戦のご勝利を祈るつもりでございます」&lt;br /&gt;　「さようか、お前の名は何と申す」&lt;br /&gt;　「忠左ェ衛門と申します」&lt;br /&gt;　「ほほう、忠義の忠左ェ衛門か、シテあれなる山は」&lt;br /&gt;　「アレは勝山、その大木は、勝の木と申します」&lt;br /&gt;　「ナニ、勝山に勝の木か、めでたい、めでたい。戦には必ず勝って帰るぞ」ときげんよく出発しました。&lt;br /&gt;　その年の夏、小田原征伐が終わって帰途、再び、石川家に小憩しましたが、あれから半年間、忠左ェ衛門は、地蔵菩薩に、毎日一つづつ馬の沓を捧げて、秀吉公の戦の勝利を祈りました。&lt;br /&gt;　その話を聞いた秀吉は、忠左ェ衛門を見て、「そちの祈願の甲斐あって戦に勝ったぞ、約束の馬の沓は持ち帰るぞ、褒美の品をなんなりと申してみよ」&lt;br /&gt;　光栄に感激した忠左ェ衛門は、ことばもなく頭を下げていると、秀吉は、つかつかと縁先に来て、着用の陣羽織を脱いで忠左ェ衛門に与えました。&lt;br /&gt;　そしてなおも、「なんなりと望みを申せ」と重ねての言葉に、「恐れながら、このあたりは人家が少なく、里人の数も少なうございますので、道中ご用をいたしますのに手廻りかねます。太閤様のご慈悲によって、この儀をご免じ頂きとうございます」&lt;br /&gt;　「そうか、そち一人のためを思わず、村人の難儀を救おうというのは、よい心掛けだ。以後、諸役を勤めることを免じてやろう」と上機嫌で、茶湯にのどをうるおして出発しました。&lt;br /&gt;　のちに徳川家康が、この陣羽織を見て、記念に茶碗を贈ったほか、諸大名やその家来たちも拝観に訪れるものが多く、当家にその芳名録が残されています。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;（余談：石川屋の主人は｢四｣が｢死｣を意味するので縁起が悪いので機転を利かし、豊臣秀吉も鋭敏にそれを察知したからだそうです。）&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;　　　　　********************************************************&lt;br /&gt;　　I went to Utsunoya, Shizuoka Prefecture, with my friends from my university days on November 20, and saw Hideyoshi Toyotomi's battle surcoat at Ohaori-ya House. The following is my translation of a pamphlet explaining the origin of the surcoat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　&lt;br /&gt;　　　　　　　ORIGIN OF THE BATTLE SURCOAT&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　　Utsunoya, Tokaido, Ohaori-ya, the Ishikawas&lt;br /&gt;　　Harumichi Ishikawa&lt;br /&gt;　　171 Utsunoya, Suruga-ku, Shizuoka City, Japan&lt;br /&gt;　　Phone: 054-258-1488&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　　Hideyoshi Toyotomi, the most powerful daimyo in 16th-century Japan, was advancing to Odawara in Kanagawa Prefecture in March 1590. He was leading his army to eliminate the Hōjō clan as a threat to his power. When he was passing Utsuno-tani in Shizuoka Prefecture, he happened to see straw horse-shoes hung under the eaves of the house of the Ishikawas. He found that his horse’s shoes had worn out, and so he stopped and asked Ishikawa for new ones.&lt;br /&gt;　　Ishikawa offered him only three shoes.*&lt;br /&gt;　　Hideyoshi said, “Why do you offer me only three shoes. You know a horse has four legs?”&lt;br /&gt;　　“Let me explain,” Ishikawa answered. “I pray for your safe journey with the three shoes, and your victory with the fourth one.”&lt;br /&gt;　　“I see. What’s your name?” Hideyoshi said.&lt;br /&gt;　　“My name is Chu-zaemon (Faith-zaemon).”&lt;br /&gt;　　“So, you are a faithful man like your name. By the way, what’s the name of that mountain?”&lt;br /&gt;　　“It’s Kachi-Yama (Victory Mountain), and that big tree is Kachi-ki (Victory Tree).”&lt;br /&gt;　　“Kachi-Yama and Kachi-ki? What auspicious names! I’m sure I’ll return victoriously,” Hideyoshi said, and went on his journey with triumphant feelings.&lt;br /&gt;　　After conquering the Hojo clan that summer, Hideyoshi took a rest at Ishikawa’s house on his way back. Chuzaemon had prayed for Hideyoshi’s victory by offering a Jizo guardian diety a horse shoe each day.&lt;br /&gt;　　When Hideyoshi learned of his faithful deeds, he said, “Thanks to your dedicated prayer, I am victorious. Let me have the promised fourth shoe, and I’ll give you anything you want as a reward.”&lt;br /&gt;　　Chuzaemon kept bowing his head down without words feeling great honor. Hideyoshi approached the porch, took off his battle surcoat, and gave it to him saying, “Feel free to tell me anything you want.”&lt;br /&gt;　　Encouraged by Hideyoshi’s repeated words, Chuzaemon said, “Let me humbly say this: because our village is small and straggling, it’s difficult for us to comply with the duty to provide horses and porters for official travelers. So, great Lord, I ask of you to be merciful and exempt us from it.”&lt;br /&gt;　　“You say you want to spare the villagers the duty?” Hideyoshi said. “What an admirable man you are to think about the villagers first, and not about yourself! All right, I’ll grant your request. This village shall be exempt from the duty hereafter.”&lt;br /&gt;　　He drank a cup of tea, and departed in the best of spirits.&lt;br /&gt;　　Later, Ieyasu Tokugawa, the first shogun who ruled Japan, visited Ishikawa to appreciate the surcoat and presented him with a tea ceremony bowl as a memorial. A number of notable daimyos and their subjects also visited Ishikawa to view it.&lt;br /&gt;　　The list of the visitors’ names is kept here in our house of the Ishikawas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(* Chuzaemon avoided using the word “four,” because the Japanese word for “four” is “shi,” which means “death.” Some say that Hideyoshi, a wise man, understood his intention.)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6413525424249621925-1527286760201329766?l=matseye.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/feeds/1527286760201329766/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2010/11/82origin-of-battle-surcoat.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/1527286760201329766'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/1527286760201329766'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2010/11/82origin-of-battle-surcoat.html' title='[82]　お羽織の由来　ORIGIN OF THE BATTLE SURCOAT'/><author><name>Hiroshi Matsuoka</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06861900310456190845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Bo8aoBH8gQM/TPezQbZSdFI/AAAAAAAAAhE/-Iu4dv1PruY/s72-c/060914_02_img_03.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6413525424249621925.post-7614133934826071512</id><published>2010-11-16T19:55:00.009+09:00</published><updated>2010-12-30T14:13:11.341+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='パトカー、サイレン'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='siren'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hotel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hawaii'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='police'/><title type='text'>[81] ３回目のサイレン　THIRD SIREN</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Bo8aoBH8gQM/TOSP1XpaMjI/AAAAAAAAAfM/rSECXwnUexU/s1600/DSCF0241.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5540711588616090162" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Bo8aoBH8gQM/TOSP1XpaMjI/AAAAAAAAAfM/rSECXwnUexU/s400/DSCF0241.JPG" style="display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Bo8aoBH8gQM/TOSPq2nj5iI/AAAAAAAAAfE/tzjichzH-lk/s1600/DSCF0002.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5540711407951275554" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Bo8aoBH8gQM/TOSPq2nj5iI/AAAAAAAAAfE/tzjichzH-lk/s400/DSCF0002.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　　３回目のサイレン&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;アラワイ通り&lt;br /&gt;ハワイのホテル&lt;br /&gt;一枚ガラスの窓通し&lt;br /&gt;車の騒音&lt;br /&gt;丸聞こえ&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;真夜中に&lt;br /&gt;かすかに聞こえる&lt;br /&gt;パトカーのサイレン&lt;br /&gt;だんだん、だんだん&lt;br /&gt;ホテルに近づく&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ピーポーピーポー&lt;br /&gt;ホテルまで５０メートル&lt;br /&gt;わたしの部屋へ接近す&lt;br /&gt;２０メートル、１０メートル&lt;br /&gt;わたしのベッドに接近す&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ビー！ボー！ビー！ボー！&lt;br /&gt;耳をつんざく大騒音&lt;br /&gt;耳に入って&lt;br /&gt;鼓膜を破り&lt;br /&gt;血をたらす&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;急にサイレン小さくなり&lt;br /&gt;パトカーしだいに去っていく&lt;br /&gt;耳、ベッド、部屋、ホテルから&lt;br /&gt;サイレン遠のき、闇に消え&lt;br /&gt;もとの静けさ&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;でも３０分後&lt;br /&gt;目が覚める&lt;br /&gt;またサイレンが&lt;br /&gt;遠くに聞こえる&lt;br /&gt;これで今夜、３回目&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　　　THIRD SIREN&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am staying at a hotel in Hawaii&lt;br /&gt;it stands on Ala Wai Boulevard&lt;br /&gt;the sliding doors are not double-paned&lt;br /&gt;they are made of thin glass&lt;br /&gt;letting traffic noise penetrate&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;in the middle of the night&lt;br /&gt;I hear a faint police siren&lt;br /&gt;in the far distance&lt;br /&gt;the noise becomes louder and louder&lt;br /&gt;it is approaching my hotel&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;now the police car is 50 meters away&lt;br /&gt;it is approaching my room&lt;br /&gt;wailing, wailing, wailing&lt;br /&gt;now 20 meters away, now 10 meters&lt;br /&gt;It is approaching my bed&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;now the loudest and noisiest&lt;br /&gt;it has reached my ear&lt;br /&gt;the noise is entering my ear&lt;br /&gt;breaking my eardrum&lt;br /&gt;blood from my ear&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;suddenly the noise drops&lt;br /&gt;leaves my ear, bed, room, and hotel&lt;br /&gt;the siren is far away&lt;br /&gt;disappears in the night&lt;br /&gt;peace at last&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;but 30 minutes later&lt;br /&gt;my eyes open&lt;br /&gt;I hear a siren again&lt;br /&gt;in the far distance,&lt;br /&gt;the third siren tonight&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6413525424249621925-7614133934826071512?l=matseye.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/feeds/7614133934826071512/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2010/11/81-fifth-siren.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/7614133934826071512'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/7614133934826071512'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2010/11/81-fifth-siren.html' title='[81] ３回目のサイレン　THIRD SIREN'/><author><name>Hiroshi Matsuoka</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06861900310456190845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Bo8aoBH8gQM/TOSP1XpaMjI/AAAAAAAAAfM/rSECXwnUexU/s72-c/DSCF0241.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6413525424249621925.post-4835362350078485513</id><published>2010-11-11T21:08:00.013+09:00</published><updated>2010-12-01T22:22:13.834+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='halloween'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ハロイーン、仮装、仮面、mask'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='costumes'/><title type='text'>[80] ハロイーンの仮装　HALOWEEN COSTUMES</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Bo8aoBH8gQM/TNve1bQ2r0I/AAAAAAAAAeY/ezBz1bwlB5s/s1600/DSCF0084.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; 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So, I was lucky enough to watch people dressed in Halloween costumes walking in Kalakaua Street. 　　The street was so jam-packed with people that you could not walk smoothly. You had to walk inch by inch avoiding the continuous flow of oncoming people. You should not walk against the tide of people, but just follow them. It was full of noises of automobiles, cheers, music, screams, chatter, laughter, cries, and loud talking on the cell phones. 　&lt;br /&gt;　　About one out of 20 pedestrians were dressed in costumes. Some were scary like Vampire, Frankenstein, witches, skeletons, and a faceless woman; some familiar like Doraemon, Superman, Wonder-woman, Little Red Riding-Hood and the Wolf, Spiderman, Chewbacca, Princes Leia, Jedi, and Mickey Mouse; some unique like geisha girls, maid-style boys, Eyeball Father in Ge-Ge-Ge no Kitaro story, and nymphs; others historical figures like Julius Caesar and an Egyptian pharaoh.&lt;br /&gt;　　Pedestrians with cameras often stopped their favorite characters and took their pictures. I also took a lot of pictures and videos. I really enjoyed the Halloween spirits. People in costumes also seemed to be enjoying transforming into other beings by wearing masks. 　　　　&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　　HAIKU 　&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　I wear a mask&lt;br /&gt;　too 　　　　　&lt;br /&gt;　365 days a year&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6413525424249621925-4835362350078485513?l=matseye.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/feeds/4835362350078485513/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2010/11/80-haloween-costumes.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/4835362350078485513'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/4835362350078485513'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2010/11/80-haloween-costumes.html' title='[80] ハロイーンの仮装　HALOWEEN COSTUMES'/><author><name>Hiroshi Matsuoka</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06861900310456190845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Bo8aoBH8gQM/TNve1bQ2r0I/AAAAAAAAAeY/ezBz1bwlB5s/s72-c/DSCF0084.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6413525424249621925.post-5259339872344007705</id><published>2010-10-15T14:45:00.011+09:00</published><updated>2010-11-12T20:34:13.597+09:00</updated><title type='text'>[79] チビタベッキア？　Civitavecchia?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Bo8aoBH8gQM/TLfugoCP0YI/AAAAAAAAAeA/VGQYYzs-w94/s1600/cruise_189_1254372328.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 233px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5528149311890641282" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Bo8aoBH8gQM/TLfugoCP0YI/AAAAAAAAAeA/VGQYYzs-w94/s400/cruise_189_1254372328.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　　　　　チビタベッキア？&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　全長２６８メートルで１４階建ての地中海クルーズの船旅は面白そうだが、面白すぎることもある。&lt;br /&gt;　９月２４日の朝、私達夫婦を乗せたソブリン号はイタリアのチビタベッキア港に入港した。チビタベッキアはローマの北８０キロのところにある。女房と私はバチカンのシスティーナ礼拝堂美術館を見ることにしていた。まず、港から専用シャトルバスでチビタベッキアの中心街まで行き、そこから１５分間歩いてチビタベッキア駅に着いた。駅からローマまで５０分間電車に乗り、バチカンに着いたのは正午ごろだった。&lt;br /&gt;　美術館は混んいた。天地創造、アダムとイヴの追放、最後の審判などミケランジェロの絵画を鑑賞し、４時ごろにバチカンを離れた。&lt;br /&gt;　チビタベッキアのシャトルバス乗り場に６時３０分までには戻らねばならなかった。さもないと、船は私達を置いてきぼりにして出航してしまうからだ。ローマ駅に４時３０分頃到着した。そこでチビタベッキア行きの電車を必死になって捜した。プラットホームで女の人にどの電車に乗ったらいいか尋ねたが、彼女は英語が分からず、イタリア語を話すだけ。彼女と私達夫婦は電車の時刻表を見た。運よく女房がチビタベッキア行きの電車を見つけた。電車は２７番ホームから４時４３分発で、チビタベッキアには５時５６分着だった。女の人はホームの位置を教えてくれ、私達は大急ぎでホームに向かった。ホームにはすでに電車が入っていた。しかし私は「間違った電車に乗ったら、船に間に合わない」と思い、４人の人に「チビタベッキア？」と聞いた。４人とも「スィ」（そうだよ）と言ったので、電車に乗り、座席に座った。しかし念のため通路を隔てた反対側の人に「チビタベッキア？」と聞いた。彼はそうだと言った。「やっとチビタベッキアに無事帰れる。電車は６時までに着く」と思い、ほっとした。&lt;br /&gt;　ところが、先ほどの４人の人が電車を降りながら、私達に大声で叫んでいる。身ぶりから判断すると、どうも別の電車に乗らなければならないと言っているようだ。スペイン語かイタリア語を話していて何を言っているのか全然わからない。兎に角も彼らの言っていることを信用して、電車を降り、別のプラットホームに急いだ。彼等は手を振って急げ、急げと言っているらしい。電車のドアが閉まりかかり、二人の人がドアが閉まらないように手で押さえていてくれた。私達が電車に滑り込むとドアが閉まった。電車に乗ったものの、電車がチビタベッキアに行くかどうか心配だった。電車はまだ出発していない。私は一人の乗客に「チビタベッキア？」と聞き、女房も別の人に聞いた。二人とも「スィ」と言った。しかし、さっきの４人の人のように間違っているかもしれない。私は隣の車両に行ってさらに二人の人に「チビタベッキア？」と聞いた。二人ともチビタベッキア港に行くようだった。私はもとの車両に戻り座席に座った。電車が動き出した。「電車が間違っていたら、出航に間に合わない。港に着くころには船は私達を置いてきぼりにして出航してしまっているだろう」と思った。運を天に任せるしかなかった。&lt;br /&gt;　約１時間１５分後、見覚えのある海岸の景色が見えてきた。チビタベッキアの海だ。良かった、良かった。シャトルバス乗り場に戻ったのは６時１５分で、ぎちぎちで間に合った！&lt;br /&gt;　ドキドキハラハラのドラマで、危ない綱渡りだった。とても焦った！外国でホテルに泊まるのは安心で安全だ。何と言ってもホテルは移動しない。しかし、海の上のホテルに泊まるのは危なっかしい。観光中に移動しているかもしれないのだ。あのときソブリン号に間に合っていなかったら、私達夫婦は次の寄港地、ナポリまで行かなければならなかった。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　　　　　　　　 Civitavecchia？&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　　Taking a trip on a 268-meter-long, 14-storied Mediterranean cruise ship sounds exciting, but it can be too exciting.&lt;br /&gt;　　On the morning of September 24, our ship, the Sovereign, entered Civitavecchia Port in Italy. It is located 80 kilometers north of Rome. My wife and I had planned to visit the Gallery of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican. First we took a bus from the harbor to a bus stop in downtown Civitavecchia. Then, we walked for 15 minutes to Civitavecchia Railway Station. After a 50-minute train ride, we reached Rome. It was around noon when we arrived at the Vatican.&lt;br /&gt;　　The gallery was crowded. We appreciated the Creation of Adam, the Downfall of Adam and Eve, the Last Judgment, and Michelangelo’s other paintings. We left the Vatican at about four o’clock.&lt;br /&gt;　　We had to reach the bus stop in downtown Civitavecchia by 6:30 p.m. Otherwise, the ship would leave port without us. We reached Rome Railway Station around 4:30. We were desperate to take the right train bound for Civitavecchia. At the platform I asked a woman which train I should take. She was not able to speak English. She just spoke Italian. She and we looked at the train schedule. Fortunately my wife found a train bound for Civitavecchia. It said that the train would leave at 4:43 from platform 27 and arrive at Civitavecchia at 5:56. The woman showed us the platform. We rushed there. The train was already at the platform. I was afraid, “If we take a wrong train, we cannot return to the ship before it leaves port.” I asked four different individuals on the platform, “Civitavecchia?” They all said, “Si.” We got on the train and took a seat, but to make sure, I again asked a man in the seat across the aisle, “Civitavecchia?” He said Si, too. We at last made it. This train would take us to Civitavecchia before 6:00. I sighed.&lt;br /&gt;　　However, the four people who we had asked "Civitavecchia?"on the platform 27 were screaming at us. They were all getting off the train. They were telling us with gestures that we should change trains. I could not understand what they were saying. They were speaking Spanish or Italian. I believed them and hurriedly got off the train and rushed to another platform. They were waving at us on a different train probably saying, “Hurry, hurry!” Two men were kindly pushing back the closing door to keep it open so that we could get on. We slipped into the train and that instant the door closed. After getting on the train, we were still afraid whether the train would go to Civitavecchia or not. The train had not started yet. I asked a　passenger, “Civitavecchia?” My wife asked another one, “Civitavecchia?” They both said, “Si.” But I thought they might be wrong just as the four persons. So I went to a different car and asked two more passengers, “Civitavecchia?” Both of them said “Si.” They seemed to go back to Civitavecchia Port, too. I came back to my seat and sat down and the train began to move. There was nothing more we could do. If we were taking a wrong train, we would not reach the harbor in time. By the time we reached the port, the ship would have left without us. We left it to fate.&lt;br /&gt;　　After about an hour and 15 minutes’ ride, I saw a familiar sea coast: the Civitavecchia sea. How relived I was. We reached the bus stop around 6:15. A narrow escape!&lt;br /&gt;　　What an exciting drama we underwent! What a risky tightrope we were walking on! What a frustrating feeling we felt! Staying at a hotel in a foreign country is safe and secure; the hotel does not move, but staying at a hotel on the sea is risky; it moves away while you are sightseeing. If we had missed the Sovereign, we would have had to go all the way to the next port, Naples, by ourselves.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6413525424249621925-5259339872344007705?l=matseye.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/feeds/5259339872344007705/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2010/10/79_15.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/5259339872344007705'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/5259339872344007705'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2010/10/79_15.html' title='[79] チビタベッキア？　Civitavecchia?'/><author><name>Hiroshi Matsuoka</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06861900310456190845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Bo8aoBH8gQM/TLfugoCP0YI/AAAAAAAAAeA/VGQYYzs-w94/s72-c/cruise_189_1254372328.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6413525424249621925.post-110404723032640136</id><published>2010-10-14T13:06:00.009+09:00</published><updated>2010-11-12T10:10:18.538+09:00</updated><title type='text'>[78] 地獄へ　　DOWN TO HELL</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Bo8aoBH8gQM/TLaVBjzzajI/AAAAAAAAAdw/WJkvmflqHmg/s1600/article-0-03329379000005DC-194_634x355.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 224px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527769446668790322" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Bo8aoBH8gQM/TLaVBjzzajI/AAAAAAAAAdw/WJkvmflqHmg/s400/article-0-03329379000005DC-194_634x355.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　　　　　地獄へ&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;真っ暗闇の地中海&lt;br /&gt;ベッドが揺れるクルーズ船&lt;br /&gt;７万４千トン、２７０メートル&lt;br /&gt;「心配ないよ、揺れませんよ」&lt;br /&gt;なんて彼奴が言っていた&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;真っ暗闇のバルコニー&lt;br /&gt;眼下に荒波見下ろせば&lt;br /&gt;船の明かりを反射して&lt;br /&gt;荒波崩れ、白い大波&lt;br /&gt;船の周りを取り囲み&lt;br /&gt;次々船にぶち当たる&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;真っ暗闇の音を聞け&lt;br /&gt;１４階建ての巨大船&lt;br /&gt;嵐の波を突き破る&lt;br /&gt;あの波、この波、あの波、この波&lt;br /&gt;向かい風を突き進む&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;真っ暗闇の音を聞け&lt;br /&gt;キーキー、ギギギ&lt;br /&gt;壁と柱が軋む船室&lt;br /&gt;カタン、カタカタ&lt;br /&gt;金庫のふた&lt;br /&gt;風がビュービュー、波ゴーゴー&lt;br /&gt;エンジン音と三重奏&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;身体が左に傾いて&lt;br /&gt;奈落の底に落ちていく&lt;br /&gt;ずるずる地獄に落ちていく&lt;br /&gt;今、傾きが、ひととき止まる&lt;br /&gt;停止、中間、バランスの時&lt;br /&gt;今度は右に傾くぞ&lt;br /&gt;そら、右に傾いて&lt;br /&gt;奈落の底に落ちていく&lt;br /&gt;ずるずる地獄に落ちていく&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　　　　　DOWN TO HELL&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;lying on the swaying bed at midnight&lt;br /&gt;on board a Mediterranean cruise ship&lt;br /&gt;74,000 tonnage and 270 meters long&lt;br /&gt;don’t worry, he had said&lt;br /&gt;the ship won’t sway at all&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you stand on the balcony at midnight&lt;br /&gt;looking at the wild waves&lt;br /&gt;making white foam&lt;br /&gt;reflecting the light of the ship&lt;br /&gt;surrounding and attacking&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;hear in the dead of night&lt;br /&gt;the giant 14 storied ship&lt;br /&gt;breaking the stormy waves&lt;br /&gt;one after another, one after another&lt;br /&gt;making heavy noise in the wind&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;hear the noises at midnight&lt;br /&gt;the squeak of the cabin walls and pillars&lt;br /&gt;the shaking of the safety box lid&lt;br /&gt;the noise of the wind and the waves&lt;br /&gt;mixed with the engine noise&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;your body is sliding down to the left&lt;br /&gt;down down to the abyss&lt;br /&gt;down to hell&lt;br /&gt;now the sliding is arrested&lt;br /&gt;the interval, neutral, balance&lt;br /&gt;a moment of uneasy expectancy&lt;br /&gt;of the reverse sway&lt;br /&gt;now the beginning of the right side sliding&lt;br /&gt;down down to the abyss&lt;br /&gt;down to hell&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6413525424249621925-110404723032640136?l=matseye.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/feeds/110404723032640136/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2010/10/78-down-to-hell.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/110404723032640136'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/110404723032640136'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2010/10/78-down-to-hell.html' title='[78] 地獄へ　　DOWN TO HELL'/><author><name>Hiroshi Matsuoka</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06861900310456190845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Bo8aoBH8gQM/TLaVBjzzajI/AAAAAAAAAdw/WJkvmflqHmg/s72-c/article-0-03329379000005DC-194_634x355.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6413525424249621925.post-4510983067544680211</id><published>2010-10-14T11:40:00.007+09:00</published><updated>2010-10-27T16:40:34.361+09:00</updated><title type='text'>[77] 穏やかな海　SLEEPY SEA</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Bo8aoBH8gQM/TLaBWbmva_I/AAAAAAAAAdg/efXnooBFR9c/s1600/imagesCAVTY7AL.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 248px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 172px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527747815011216370" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Bo8aoBH8gQM/TLaBWbmva_I/AAAAAAAAAdg/efXnooBFR9c/s400/imagesCAVTY7AL.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　　　ねむい海&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;地中海&lt;br /&gt;クルーズ船の&lt;br /&gt;バルコニー&lt;br /&gt;手すりにもたれ&lt;br /&gt;見おろせば&lt;br /&gt;みわたすかぎり&lt;br /&gt;海、海、海&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;丸い地球に&lt;br /&gt;丸い海&lt;br /&gt;ちらほらみえる&lt;br /&gt;白い泡&lt;br /&gt;のたりのたりと&lt;br /&gt;青い海&lt;br /&gt;きらきら光る&lt;br /&gt;青い空&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;顔にそよ風&lt;br /&gt;空に巻雲&lt;br /&gt;リズミカルな&lt;br /&gt;エンジン音&lt;br /&gt;たった一人の&lt;br /&gt;ねむい海&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　　　SLEEPY SEA&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;leaning over balcony guardrail&lt;br /&gt;on board Mediterranean cruise ship&lt;br /&gt;I see nothing but&lt;br /&gt;the sea and the sky&lt;br /&gt;as far as I can see&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;round surface of the earth&lt;br /&gt;arc of the sea&lt;br /&gt;occasional tiny foam&lt;br /&gt;in the mild blue sea&lt;br /&gt;under the bright blue sky&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;gentle breeze on my face&lt;br /&gt;silky cloud above the sea&lt;br /&gt;rhythmical engine&lt;br /&gt;all alone&lt;br /&gt;on a sleepy sea&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6413525424249621925-4510983067544680211?l=matseye.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/feeds/4510983067544680211/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2010/10/77-sleepy-sea.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/4510983067544680211'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/4510983067544680211'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2010/10/77-sleepy-sea.html' title='[77] 穏やかな海　SLEEPY SEA'/><author><name>Hiroshi Matsuoka</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06861900310456190845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Bo8aoBH8gQM/TLaBWbmva_I/AAAAAAAAAdg/efXnooBFR9c/s72-c/imagesCAVTY7AL.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6413525424249621925.post-3370661238492120471</id><published>2010-10-14T11:38:00.012+09:00</published><updated>2010-12-11T00:08:01.144+09:00</updated><title type='text'>[76] 美しい英語　BEAUTIFUL ENGLISH</title><content type='html'>　　　　　　美しい英語&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　約一週間前（９月１５日）、４０年ぶりに８８歳の私の英語の先生の声を聞きました。先生の名前はミス　コンスタンス・M・パーサーと言います。&lt;br /&gt;　私が初めて先生にお目にかかったのは、１９６１年の南山大学入学試験の時です。英文科の受験生は英語の書き取りの試験があり、そのため英語を母語とする女の人が教室に入って見えました。&lt;br /&gt;　私の座席は前から２列目で、女の人は私から１メートルほど離れたところに立たれました。緊張の一瞬です。英語を母語とする人のすぐ近くに座ったのは生まれて２度目でした。彼女は英文を読み始めました。「今日、テレビやラジオがあり……」（今でも出だしの数語は覚えています）彼女の英語に驚きました。はっきりしていて、澄んでいて、きれいな英語なのです。イントネーションは音楽的で、発声が完璧でした。&lt;br /&gt;　私は岐阜県の大垣の中学、高校に通っていましたから、テープレコーダーを使う先生は誰もいませんでした。ましてや生の英語を聞くことはありません。唯一本物の英語を聞いたのは私が属していた英語部が、ある牧師さんを訪ねたときです。私は１６歳で、牧師さんが何を言っているのか分かりませんでした。&lt;br /&gt;　書き取り試験はベストを尽くしました。試験中の一秒一秒、なんて美しい英語を話す人だろうと感激していました。運良く入学試験に合格し、二年生の時、先生の科目を履修しました。&lt;br /&gt;　大学卒業後、南山中高等学校の英語教師になりました。２８歳のとき米国に行き、友達と先生に電話しました。電話はほんの数分でした。先生は当時カナダに住んで見えました。私は６５歳で南山中高等学校を退職しました。&lt;br /&gt;　退職後も、書き取り試験をして５０年もたっているのに、先生の美しい英語を忘れられませんでした。何とかもう一度先生の声が聞きたいと思っていたところ、運良く大学時代の友達が、先生のメールアドレスを知っていました。私は先生にメールして、４０年ぶりに電話で話すことができました。&lt;br /&gt;　先生の声は少しも変わっていませんでした。音楽的なイントネーション、完璧な発声、絹のような、ベルベットのような、それでいて力強い声。&lt;br /&gt;　また書き取り試験を受けているような気持ちになりました。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　　俳文&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　　教え子が&lt;br /&gt;　　私の声を覚えているかな　&lt;br /&gt;　　４０年後&lt;br /&gt;　　　　　　　　　　&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　　　　　　Beautiful English&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　　About a week ago (Sept. 15), I heard my 88-year-old English teacher’s voice after a 40 year absence. Her name is Miss Constance M. Purser.&lt;br /&gt;　　I first saw her when I took the entrance examination for Nanzan University in 1961. The examinees for the English literature course had to take an English dictation test. During the English examination, a woman native speaker of English appeared in the examination classroom for the dictation.&lt;br /&gt;　　My desk was in the second row. She stood just a meter away from me. I was tense. It was the second time in my life that I sat so close to a native speaker of English. She began to read aloud a passage, which began with “Today we have television, radio….” (I still remember the first few words.) I was amazed at her English. It was clear, clean, and　beautiful. Her intonation was musical, her enunciation perfect.&lt;br /&gt;　　Since I went to junior and senior high schools in Ogaki City in Gifu Prefecture, none of my English teachers used a tape recorder. Nor did I have any chance to hear a native speaker’s English. The only chance I had to hear real English was when the members of the English Speaking Club (I was one) visited a priest. I was sixteen years old at that time. I was not able to comprehend what he said.&lt;br /&gt;　　I did my best in the dictation test. While I was taking dictation, I was moved at her amazingly beautiful English every second of the dictation time. Luckily I passed the entrance examination. I took her English class in my sophomore year.&lt;br /&gt;　　After graduating from the university, I became a Nanzan High School English teacher. When I visited the United States at the age of 28, my friend and I called her up. The telephone call lasted only a few minutes. She was living in Canada at that time. I retired Nanzan High School at the age of 65.&lt;br /&gt;　　After the retirement, I still remembered her beautiful English although 50 years had passed since I had taken the dictation test. I wanted to hear her English again. Luckily one of my friends from my university days happened to know her mail address. I mailed her and had a chance to talk to her on the phone after a 40 year absence.&lt;br /&gt;　　Her voice has not changed at all: musical intonation, perfect enunciation, silky, velvet, and forceful voice.&lt;br /&gt;　　I felt as if I were taking her dictation test again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　　*******HAIBUN*******　　&lt;br /&gt;　　&lt;br /&gt;　　will my ex-students&lt;br /&gt;　　remember my voice&lt;br /&gt;　　after 40 years?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6413525424249621925-3370661238492120471?l=matseye.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/feeds/3370661238492120471/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2010/10/76.html#comment-form' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/3370661238492120471'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/3370661238492120471'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2010/10/76.html' title='[76] 美しい英語　BEAUTIFUL ENGLISH'/><author><name>Hiroshi Matsuoka</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06861900310456190845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6413525424249621925.post-6957741316523771174</id><published>2010-10-14T10:50:00.007+09:00</published><updated>2010-10-27T22:38:39.440+09:00</updated><title type='text'>[75] 実体験　FIRSTHAND EXPERIENCE</title><content type='html'>　 実体験&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　８月１７日の炎天下、午後３時２０分頃、私は名古屋、栄の「オアシス２１」近くの街を歩いていました。そこへ黒っぽいスーツを着た男の人が二人近づいてきました。一人はマイクを持ち、もう一人は大きなビデオカメラを抱えていました。&lt;br /&gt;マイクの男の人が「済みません、名古屋市民の方ですか」と尋ねました。&lt;br /&gt;　「はあ、そうですが」と私は答えました。&lt;br /&gt;　「ああ、良かった。NHKの者ですが、河村市長の件で質問してもよろしいか」&lt;br /&gt;　「ええ、構いませんが」&lt;br /&gt;　「市長の政策をどう思いますか。１０パーセント減税と、市会議員の年俸を減らすと言う考え方についてですが」&lt;br /&gt;　「減税歓迎です。でも、先月気がついたんですが、私の介護保険料が前年に比べて増えてるんですよ。区役所の説明では、市の税収が減ったためだと言ってましたが、１０パーセント減税は私には何の得にもなってないんすよ。で、議員の年収の件は、市長に賛成ですね。市長自身が年収を半分にしたそうじゃないですか。なんでも、議員は議会に出席するだけで１万円もらえると聞きましたが」&lt;br /&gt;　ビデオカメラマンは私のすぐそばでカメラを構えていて、私は神経が高ぶっていましたが、平静を装いました。通行人が２，３人立ち止まりました。私は緊張しましたが、なるべくその通行人を無視しました。&lt;br /&gt;　次の質問は「市長が行おうとしているリコール運動についてどう思われますか」&lt;br /&gt;　「市民の意見が市政に反映されるのはいいと思いますね。署名を集めることで、市民が河村市長の方針をどう思っているか分かりますし、市民が公に市の問題を議論するのはいい事ですよ。公開討論って大事じゃないですか」&lt;br /&gt;　私は少し興奮気味で、ひょっとしたら今晩このインタビューがテレビに放映されるかもしれないと思い始めました。もっと格好いい事を言わなければと気は焦りましたが、いい言葉が出ませんでした。&lt;br /&gt;　NHKマンはあと２つ質問をしました。河村市長の辞任についてと、名古屋市の問題が日本中の話題になっていることについてでした。最初の質問にはどう答えたかはっきり覚えていません。実のところ、河村市長が辞任すると言うことは知りませんでした。多分私の答はピント外れだったでしょう。二つ目の質問については、これは名古屋の問題であって、他の地域の人がどう思おうと構わないと答えました。&lt;br /&gt;　最後に「失礼ですが、署名されますか」と聞かれて、多分、と答えました。二人は礼を言い、私はその場を立ち去りました。&lt;br /&gt;　６時１０分に私は家のテレビの前に座っていました。NHKの「ほっとイーヴニング」で私の顔が映るかもしれないと思ったからです。６時３０分頃白い帽子を被った私の顔が映りました。思ったより老けて見え、もっとハンサムのはずだがと思いました。ほんの１５秒程度しか映っていませんでしたが、テレビに出たのは生まれて初めてです。なんか、嬉しいやら、有名人になったような、冷や汗物で、どぎまぎし、まんざらでもないが、恥ずかしいやらと、複雑な気持ちでした。&lt;br /&gt;　私の顔が画面から消えるとすぐに電話が鳴りました。「松岡先生、見ましたよ。先生ですね」東京に住んでいる教え子からでした。翌日、２通のメールが来ました。一つは小学校時代の友達から、もう一つは別の教え子からでした。次の月曜日には古武道教室（杖道）の二人の友達が私をテレビで見たと言いました。&lt;br /&gt;　テレビの威力はすごい。一瞬にして一片のニュースが全国に放映されるのです。恐ろしい。同じ情報が、良きにつけ悪しきにつけ、あっという間に視聴者に届くのです。テレビの影響を人間はコントロールできません。こんなこと頭ではよく分かっていたのですが、今日のインタビューで実体験しました。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　　　　　　　　　　　FIRSTHAND EXPERIENCE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　　At around 3:20 on a sizzling afternoon of August 17, when I was walking along a street near Oasis 21 downtown Sakae in Nagoya, two men in dark suit approached me. One was holding a microphone and the other a giant video camera.&lt;br /&gt;　　The microphone man said to me, “Excuse me, are you a Nagoya citizen?”&lt;br /&gt;　　“Yes. I am,” I said.&lt;br /&gt;　　“Thank god, how lucky! We are from the NHK (Japan Broadcasting Cooperation). May I interview you about Mayor Kawamura’s recall issue?”&lt;br /&gt;　　“Yes, it’s all right with me.”&lt;br /&gt;　　“What do you think of the mayor’s policy?” the NHK man asked. “He wants to reduce taxes 10 percent. He also wants to decrease the annual income of the city council members.”&lt;br /&gt;　　I said, “I always welcome tax reduction, but last month I realized that I had to pay more for my nursing care insurance premiums than last year because, according to a city official, Nagoya City’s revenue from tax decreased. The 10 percent tax cut does not benefit me at all. As for the annual income of the council member, I agree with the mayor. They are given too much. The mayor himself halved his income. That’s good. I heard that one person attending the council meeting earns 10,000 yen per meeting.”&lt;br /&gt;　　The camera man was standing beside me, making me nervous. I pretended that I was not nervous at all. A few people stopped walking and stood around me. They stressed me out, but I tried to ignore them.&lt;br /&gt;　　He asked me another question. “What do you think of the recall campaign Mr. Kawamura is going to carry out soon?”&lt;br /&gt;　　“Public opinion should be reflected in the making of the city policies,” I said. “The campaign to collect citizens’ signature gives a good opportunity to know what Nagoya citizens think about his policy. It is always good that citizens discuss a municipal issue openly. Open debate is important, isn’t it?”&lt;br /&gt;　　I was a little excited. I began to be aware that this interview might be broadcast during an NHK television program in the evening. I thought I had to say something impressive, but my words did not respond to my expectation.&lt;br /&gt;　　The interviewer asked me two more questions: about Mr. Kawamura’s intention to resign and about the fact that Nagoya City had become a topic of conversation all over Japan. I do not remember how I responded to the first question. Actually I did not know that Mr. Kawamura was going to resign. I am afraid what I said about it was off the point. As for the second one, I said that it was Nagoya citizens’ problem and not theirs and that I did not care whether they were interested in the issue or not.&lt;br /&gt;　　Finally, he asked me whether I would sign my signature. I answered affirmatively. They thanked me for the interview and we parted ways.&lt;br /&gt;　　I was in front of the television at 6:10 at home. I had expected that I would appear on the NHK’s “Hotto Evening” program. Around 6:30, my face with a white hat on was on the TV screen! I looked older and less handsome than I had expected. I was on the screen for just 15 seconds or so. That was the first time that I saw my face on TV. I felt happy, famous, nervous, embarrassed, proud, and shy.&lt;br /&gt;　　Immediately after my face disappeared, the telephone rang. I took the receiver. A man on the other end of the line said, “Mr. Matsuoka, I saw you on television! It was you, wasn't it?” He was my ex-student living in Tokyo. The next day I received two e-mails: one from a friend during my elementary school days and the other from another ex-student of mine. The following Monday, two of my friends from my martial arts class told me that they had seen me on TV.&lt;br /&gt;　　I realized how fast and wide television spread a piece of news all over Japan and the world as well. Television is a fearful device. It can easily send the same information, evil or good, to you in less than a second. The influence of television is too big for a human being to control. I had known all of them theoretically, but I experienced them firsthand through the interview.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6413525424249621925-6957741316523771174?l=matseye.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/feeds/6957741316523771174/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2010/10/75-beautiful-english.html#comment-form' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/6957741316523771174'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/6957741316523771174'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2010/10/75-beautiful-english.html' title='[75] 実体験　FIRSTHAND EXPERIENCE'/><author><name>Hiroshi Matsuoka</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06861900310456190845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6413525424249621925.post-3974950495112952462</id><published>2010-08-30T09:38:00.005+09:00</published><updated>2010-09-17T18:17:40.926+09:00</updated><title type='text'>[74] 商売根性　SHREWD SALESMANSHIP</title><content type='html'>　　 　　　　商売根性　&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　あくどい商売根性ほど嫌なものはない。&lt;br /&gt;この夏、天竜ライン下りの舟に乗った。乗船時間は４０分。６メートルほどの舟に２０人ぐらいの乗客が、舟に敷かれたゴザの上に寿司詰めになって船が出た。舟は混んでいたが、わたしは景色や水しぶきをエンジョイしていた。&lt;br /&gt;　「いいねぇ。波といい、緑の木々といい。空気もうまいし、名古屋の雑踏からおさらばだ。至福の時だ」わたしは景色に溶け込み、自然と一体になっていた。川沿いの景勝を説明するガイドの声が快い。両岸には大小さまざまな奇岩が突き出ている。「左手に見えますのは龍角峯、こちらが浴鶴巌でございます」なるほど、なるほど、龍の角に似ているなぁ、ああ、こっちの岩は鶴の形だ。&lt;br /&gt;　しかし、自然に抱かれた平安が、ガイドの案内でぶち壊しになってしまった。ガイドが「舟は途中で龍神神社に寄ります」と言う。しばらくすると、小さな神社と鳥居が川岸に見えて来た。舟が近づいた。神社は高さ１メートルぐらい。ちゃちな神社で、鳥居の朱色の塗料は禿げ落ちている。鳥居の前には長さ２メートルぐらいの白い舟が横付けになっている。私の乗っている舟は速度を落として、その舟に横づけになった。舟の中には賽銭箱があった。ガイドが「こちらは幸運を招く龍神神社でございます。賽銭を投げると幸運に恵まれます」と言う。わたしの座席は右舷の真ん中で、賽銭箱は手で触れるくらいのところにある。座席が賽銭箱に永久に釘付けされてしまったかのように感じた。プレッシャーがかかった。何人かの乗客がお金を投げた。舟はその場を離れない。ガイドはわたしを観察していて、わたしがお金を投げるのを今か今かと待っているようだ。「俺は川の景色を楽しむために川下りをやってるんだ。賽銭を投げるためじゃあない」と思った。長い長い時間が過ぎた。舟はまだ動かない。お金を投げるべきか….。３０分も経ったかと思われる時間が過ぎて、やっと船が出た。ほっとした。&lt;br /&gt;　楽しいはずの舟下りも商売根性でぶち壊し。わたしは考えた「ガイドの言うように１０円玉を投げれば良かったのか。たったの１０円だ」でも、無理やり投げさせられるのは御免だ。神社を今すぐ離れたいと思っても、舟に乗っているから離れるわけにいかない。舟から川に飛び込む馬鹿はいない。わたしは不愉快な舟に嫌でも乗っていなくてはならない。賽銭など投げる気になる方がおかしい。&lt;br /&gt;　おかげで川の景色も楽しくなくなった。舟は何もなかったかのように岩や緑の木々の間を下っていった。ところが、また商売根性の弾が飛んできた。&lt;br /&gt;　２０分ぐらい経つと、ガイドが乗客にせんべいをサービスで配りだした。神社のことで嫌な気分になっていたので、せんべいが回って来て、少し気分も和らいだ。「グッドタイミング、丁度何か食べたいと思っていたところだ」わたしはせんべいを食べ、船着き場で買ったペットボトルのお茶を飲んだ。乗客のほぼ全員がせんべいを食べ終わった頃を見はからって、ガイドが言った。「今からジュースを売っている露店に行きます」５分後、舟は川岸にある露店に近づき、速度を落として露店の前で停まった。露店なんかに寄りたくなかったが、舟はわたしの身体を露店まで運んだ。舟が川岸に停まるとガイドと二人の船頭が舟から川岸に飛び降り、舟を支柱にロープでつなぎ、ジュースやビールや菓子を売りだした。数人の客がジュースを買った。舟はなんと親切にも１０分もそこに停まっていてくれて、お客さんが心ゆくまで買ったり飲んだりできるようにしてくれた。何と言うこころ配り。怒れてきた。わたしは露店に横付けになった舟に無理やり乗せられており、自然の音を聞く代わりに、「いくら？　ビールは？」の掛け声の中、じっと黙って座っていた。雑音や俗世間のやり取りから逃れ、自然を楽しむために川下りをしているのに。&lt;br /&gt;　天竜川下りは４０分かかった。しかしその３分の１はチャッカリ根性丸出しの時間だった。&lt;br /&gt;　賽銭箱にお金を投げる人もいるだろう。ビールを飲む人もいるだろう。わたしが頑固なのか、船会社が商売根性丸出しなのか。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　&lt;br /&gt;　静けさも　カネカネカネで　ぶち壊し&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　　　　　　　　　　Shrewd Salesmanship&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　　Nothing is more frustrating than shrewd salesmanship.&lt;br /&gt;　　I took a 40-minute boat tour down the Tenryu River this summer. Around 20 passengers sat jam-packed on the straw mats spread out in a 6-meter-long boat. Though the boat was crowded, I enjoyed the scenery and rippling water.&lt;br /&gt;　　“Isn’t this wonderful? The waves, green woods, fresh air, and the peace away from the hustle and bustle of Nagoya City. This is bliss,” I thought. I was absorbed in the scenery. I was one with nature. The guide girl’s voice explaining the scenic spots along the river sounded pleasant. On both sides of the river stood rocks of various sizes and shapes. She was saying, “That’s Dragon Rock on your left side. Now on your right side is Crane Rock.” I said to myself, “Yes, that looked like a dragon face and this looks like a crane.”&lt;br /&gt;　　My unity with nature was broken, however, when the guide said, “We are going to visit a shrine on the way to our destination.” Soon I saw a tiny shrine with a red torii gate erected on the shore. The boat approached it. It was a one-meter-high shabby shrine. The red paint on the torii beams and pillars was worn out. A small white boat about two meters long, which the guide called Lucky Boat, was anchored close to the shrine. Our boat slowed down and moored alongside the lucky boat. There was a donation box in it. The guide recommended the passengers to make monetary offerings and pray to the god for luck. My seat was in the center of the boat on the starboard side. The offertory boat was right next to my seat. I could have touched the box. I felt like my seat was eternally locked to the box. I was under heavy pressure to throw a coin into it. Some passengers threw coins. Our boat stopped for such a long time that I thought the guide was waiting for me to throw a coin. I took the boat tour to enjoy the scenery, not to offer money. A long time elapsed, but our boat would not leave. I felt nervous; to make an offer or not to make an offer. After what seemed to be half an hour, our boat finally left the shrine to my relief.&lt;br /&gt;　　My enjoyment of the tour was damaged by the shrewd salesmanship. A few minutes later, I asked myself, “Why didn’t you just obey the guide and throw a coin? It’s just 10 yen.” I could have offered 10 yen, but I hated to be forced to do so. I wanted to leave the shrine as soon as possible, but I couldn’t. Who would have dared to jump from the boat to get away from the shrine? I had to stay in the unpleasant boat for an endless amount of time. That discouraged me from making an offering.&lt;br /&gt;　　With bad feelings in my mind, I was no longer in the mood to enjoy the scenery as much as I had before. The boat floated down among the rocks and thick trees as if nothing had happened. Then I was bombarded with another salesmanship bullet.&lt;br /&gt;　　About 20 minutes later, the guide began to deliver the passengers complementary Japanese senbei crackers. Since I had been a little disgusted with the shrine incident, I felt better. “That’s nice. I want to eat some snacks,” I thought. I ate the cracker and drank some tea from the PET bottle I had bought at the pier shop. When almost all the passengers seemed to have eaten their crackers, the guide said, “We are going to sail to a juice and beer stand.” In five minutes, the boat reached the stand on another shore of the river. The boat slowly approached the stall and stopped close to it. I didn’t want to go near the stand, but despite my will power not to, the boat compelled me to go there. When the boat came close enough to the shore, the guide and two oarsmen jumped onto it, tied the boat to a pole, and began to sell juice, beer, and candies. Several passengers bought them. The boat stayed there for more than 10 minutes so that the passengers could fully appreciate the guide’s kindness to give them plenty of time to buy and drink. I was angry. I was forced to stay next to the stand for a long time in the midst of the noisy mercantile transaction instead of viewing the beautiful scenery. I had come here to be away from the noise, away from the human transactions, and to be one with nature.&lt;br /&gt;　　The Tenryu River boat tour took about 40 minutes, but more than one-third of the time was wasted on worldly business.&lt;br /&gt;　　Some people may love to offer money and drink beer cheerfully, but I don’t. Am I too stubborn or is the tour company too concerned with salesmanship?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　　　　　HAIKU&lt;br /&gt;　　　　　peace of mind&lt;br /&gt;　　　　　　　　　　broken by&lt;br /&gt;　　　　　　　　　　　　　money, money, and money&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6413525424249621925-3974950495112952462?l=matseye.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/feeds/3974950495112952462/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2010/08/74-shrewd-salesmanship.html#comment-form' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/3974950495112952462'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/3974950495112952462'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2010/08/74-shrewd-salesmanship.html' title='[74] 商売根性　SHREWD SALESMANSHIP'/><author><name>Hiroshi Matsuoka</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06861900310456190845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6413525424249621925.post-9153921598290909246</id><published>2010-08-11T22:35:00.009+09:00</published><updated>2010-08-17T23:23:01.216+09:00</updated><title type='text'>[73] 負け戦　A LOSING BATTLE</title><content type='html'>　　　負け戦&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;バイキング　お前は巨大な　怪物だ&lt;br /&gt;料理が一杯　目が眩む&lt;br /&gt;食の砲撃　避けられない&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;タコいかビーフ　寿司スープ&lt;br /&gt;スパゲッティに　パンご飯　&lt;br /&gt;さかなエビかに　タコにイカ&lt;br /&gt;うどんマカロニ　ピザトマト&lt;br /&gt;ジャガイモなすび　ホウレンソウ&lt;br /&gt;トウモロコシに　梨リンゴ&lt;br /&gt;パイナップルと　オレンジメロン&lt;br /&gt;コーヒー紅茶　ウーロン茶&lt;br /&gt;ジュースとコーラ　ミルクとケーキ&lt;br /&gt;アイスクリーム　タルトパイ&lt;br /&gt;ストロベリーに　グレープみかん&lt;br /&gt;これもだこれも　ついでにあれも&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;これが食べずに　いられるか&lt;br /&gt;これが飲まずに　いられるか&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;真夜中に　食べた半分　吐いたじゃないか&lt;br /&gt;腹痛め　食べ過ぎないと　決めたじゃないか&lt;br /&gt;入口で　誓ったはずだ　取り過ぎないと&lt;br /&gt;プレートを　取る時言った　独り言&lt;br /&gt;腹八分　医者いらず　&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;肥満大敵　万病の元&lt;br /&gt;高血圧に　コレステロール&lt;br /&gt;糖尿病と　心臓病&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;分かっているよ　そんなこと&lt;br /&gt;ちょっと見てみろ、カリカリの　こげ目のついた&lt;br /&gt;ソーセージ　よだれが垂れる　唾が出る&lt;br /&gt;これでほんとに　終りにするよ&lt;br /&gt;プレートに　のせてみるだけ　のせるだけ&lt;br /&gt;食べないったら　食べないよ&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A LOSING BATTLE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;buffet-style meal is enormous monster&lt;br /&gt;overwhelming dishes bombard you&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;fish, crab, and oysters&lt;br /&gt;shrimp, octopus, and squid&lt;br /&gt;beef and sushi, soup and noodles&lt;br /&gt;rice, bread, spaghetti and macaroni&lt;br /&gt;pizza and corn, tomatoes and potatoes&lt;br /&gt;spinach and egg-plants, bananas and apples&lt;br /&gt;oranges and pineapples and melons and coffee &lt;br /&gt;black tea and Japanese tea, juice and coke&lt;br /&gt;milk and cakes and pies and pudding&lt;br /&gt;ice cream and tarts, and and and &lt;br /&gt;and and and, and and and and&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;how can you ignore them?&lt;br /&gt;how can you resist them?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the middle of last night&lt;br /&gt;didn’t you vomit half of what you had eaten?&lt;br /&gt;Feeling your stomach ache&lt;br /&gt;didn’t you make up your mind&lt;br /&gt;not to eat too much?&lt;br /&gt;just before entering the buffet room&lt;br /&gt;weren’t you determined not to take too many dishes?&lt;br /&gt;when you picked up a plate&lt;br /&gt;didn’t you say to yourself&lt;br /&gt;moderate eating keeps the doctor away?&lt;br /&gt;You know, obesity is the cause of all diseases:&lt;br /&gt;high blood pressure and high cholesterol&lt;br /&gt;diabetes and cardiovascular disease&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I know, but &lt;br /&gt;look at this crispy brown sausage&lt;br /&gt;doesn’t it look delicious?&lt;br /&gt;this is the very last thing&lt;br /&gt;Let me put it on my plate&lt;br /&gt;I won’t eat it&lt;br /&gt;I’ll just put it on my plate&lt;br /&gt;I won’t eat it&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6413525424249621925-9153921598290909246?l=matseye.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/feeds/9153921598290909246/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2010/08/73-buffet-style-meal-is-evil.html#comment-form' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/9153921598290909246'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6413525424249621925/posts/default/9153921598290909246'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://matseye.blogspot.com/2010/08/73-buffet-style-meal-is-evil.html' title='[73] 負け戦　A LOSING BATTLE'/><author><name>Hiroshi Matsuoka</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06861900310456190845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6413525424249621925.post-8181959732095573122</id><published>2010-07-24T00:02:00.006+09:00</published><updated>2010-08-30T09:49:47.927+09:00</updated><title type='text'>[72] 「７番目の男」　の誤訳　INCORRECT TRANSLATION OF "THE SEVENTH MAN"</title><content type='html'>　「７番目の男」&lt;br /&gt;　&lt;br /&gt;　“昨日iTuneで村上春樹の「７番目の男」の英語版を聞きました。今日は運良くその翻訳テキストがインターネット上で見つかり、プリントアウトしました。翻訳はクリストファー・アリソンさんによるものです。日本語版も読みたくて、図書館で借りてきました。&lt;br /&gt;　日本語と翻訳を比較していて、誤訳が多いのに気がつきました。翻訳者の日本語力が足らないのです。日本語ができないのによくもまあ英語に訳せるものだ。例えば、「４０年以上故郷の町に戻らずに……」をI’m over 40 years old and I’d never been back to my hometown（私の年は４０歳を過ぎていて、故郷に帰ったことがありません）と訳してあるのです。これはひどい。アリソンさんにメールを送ろうとしましたが、インターネットには同名のサイトが一杯ありました。&lt;br /&gt;　誤訳を公開するのは失礼かもしれませんが、今後アリソンさんが翻訳を続けようとなさるなら、正確に訳して欲しいものです。ですから公開することにしました。アリソンさんがこのブログを見てくれるといいですがねぇ。&lt;br /&gt;　（私訳を載せました。拙い訳ではありますが、誤訳ではありません）&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　　Yesterday, I happened to listen to an iTune podcast English story, “The Seventh Man” written by Haruki Murakami. Luckily today, I found the translation text on the Internet and printed it out. It was translated by Christopher Allison. Also, I went to a library and borrowed the original Japanese story.&lt;br /&gt;　　As I was studying how the Japanese was translated into English, I found quite a few incorrect translations. I was surprised the translator’s lack of Japanese ability. How dare he translate Japanese into English with such a poor ability of Japanese? For example, one of his translations is: “I’m over 40 years old and I’d never been back to my hometown,” but the correct translation should be: “I’ve never been back to my hometown for more than 40 years.” This is unbelievable. (See the collection of incorrect translations below.) I wanted to send e-mail to him but I failed to find his mail address; there are too many Christopher Allisons on the Internet.&lt;br /&gt;　　I know it would be rude to publish the bad translations here but since I want him to be more careful in his further translation of Japanese novels, I decided to make his wrong translations public. I hope he will have a chance to access this blog.　&lt;br /&gt;　　I have added my own translation. I know it is not perfect, but it is free from incorrect translation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;　　　誤訳一覧　Collection of Incorrect Translations&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;みんなに一目置かれていた&lt;br /&gt;WRONG TRANSLATION（誤訳）: Anybody can see right away&lt;br /&gt;MY TRANSLATION（拙訳）: Everybody gave me due respect&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;授業について行くのがやっと&lt;br /&gt;W: going to class was troublesome for him&lt;br /&gt;M: He had a hard time catching up with others at school&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;強風による被害が大きく&lt;br /&gt;W: there was a lot of danger from strong wind&lt;br /&gt;M: The strong wind caused a lot of casualties&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;どこからか鳥の鳴く声が聞こえてきます&lt;br /&gt;W: You couldn’t hear a single sound; not even the crow of distant birds.&lt;br /&gt;M: You couldn’t hear a single sound, but the crow of distant birds was heard.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;地上を思いっきりなぎ払ったような光景&lt;br /&gt;W: The sight looked like a giant hand…calmly wiped across the surface of the earth.&lt;br /&gt;M: The sight looked like a giant hand…wiped out with full blast the surface of the earth&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;いやにがらんとして見えました&lt;br /&gt;W: It looks unbearably empty&lt;br /&gt;M: It looked quite empty&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;波打ち際&lt;br /&gt;W: When the waves struck&lt;br /&gt;M: on the edge of the surf&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;あたりの様子をうかがいながら&lt;br /&gt;W: keeping my eye on the sky&lt;br /&gt;M: looking around carefully&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;白い砂浜が私達の目の前に見渡す限り広がっています&lt;br /&gt;W: The white sand beach was getting wider as we watched&lt;br /&gt;M: The white sand beach expanded as far as I could se
