秋に連休4日、直前まで知らなかった。在宅勤務や振替休日などがあり、曜日をあまり意識してなかった。それに東京の人たちには会いたくても会えないので・・・。でも、鎌倉に来てくれる人がいて、久しぶりのギャラリー・ネストで楽しいランチ！たぶん２年ぶりぐらいで行ったので、ちょっとだけレストランの人に”年月”を感じた。（それは、こちらも年を取っているということ。）
でも近所の小袋谷川淵のYさんはアトリエの２Fに新しい階段をつけて元気いっぱいだった。私のことを誰だったかはすぐには思い出してもらえなかったけど。。。
話題は、歌のこと、日本語学習のこと、ビットコインとブロックチェーン技術のこと、コーヒー談義！
We have been having good time with John on Skype. I do not remember when and who initiate the meeting, but so far we have had more than five, maybe six sessions. We have become more closer and it makes my life colorful. John always helps us a lot.
We started this meeting on 23rd of May, Ken’s birthday and had 7 meetings so far.
10年ほど続けている英語のクラスで取り上げ、話をした。きっかけは朝日新聞小野正嗣の文芸時評を読んだから。小川洋子の記憶と文学の関係についてはカズオ・イシグロと通じるものがある、というかほとんど同じだ。小川さんの8ヒロシマの記憶に関するメモはその内容はもとより文章が美しい。NYTの英訳にはもどかしさを感じたけど「文化の違いだから・・・」。書評の小野正嗣の文章も美しい！
How We Retain the Memory of Japan’s Atomic Bombings: Books
Literature is a refuge we turn to when we are forced to confront/ contradictions that lie beyond reason, writes the Japanese novelist Yoko Ogawa.
The atomic bombing of Hiroshima occurred on Aug. 6. The bombing of Nagasaki on Aug. 9. The announcement of surrender came on the 15th. In Japan, August is the time when we remember the dead.
This year, the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings would have been observed during the Tokyo Olympics. But the Games were postponed because of the spread of the novel coronavirus, and we will be left instead to offer our prayers for the dead in an atmosphere of unexpected calm.
But, in fact, this tiny box contained something more important: the innocence of a young boy who had been full of anticipation for his simple lunch, and his mother’s love. Even when the last victim of the atomic bomb has passed away and this lunchbox is no more than a petrified relic, as long as there is still someone to hear the voice concealed within it, this memory will survive. The voices of the dead are eternal, because human beings possess the small boat — the language of literature — to carry them to the future.
死者の声を運ぶ小舟
1964年の東京オリンピック大会で聖火の最終ランナーを務めたのは、19歳の、無名の陸上選手だった。その青年は、原爆投下の当日、広島で生を受けていた。真っ白いランニングシャツと短パンを身に着け、聖火台に続く長い階段を駆け上がる彼の姿は、実に清潔で、均整がとれ、全身に若々しさが満ちあふれていた。この映像を目にするたび、敗戦からわずか19年で、世界中の人々が集まるスポーツの祭典が日本で催された、という現実に驚かされる。人類が経験したことのない徹底的な破壊の中から誕生した、一人の生命が、炎をなびかせながら、一段一段、火を運んでゆく。最終聖火ランナー選出の裏に、政治的な意図が入り乱れていたとしても、広島で生まれた19歳の青年が放つ生命力には、何のごまかしもなかった。
今、私の手元に、広島平和記念資料館の収蔵品を撮影した写真集『Hiroshima Collection』（撮影土田ヒロミ）がある。中学１年生、折免滋（おりめんしげる）君の弁当箱と水筒の写真を見つめている。滋君は動員学徒として作業中に、爆心地から500メートルで被爆。川の土手に積み重ねられた遺体のカバンから、お母さんがこれを発見した。「今日は大豆ご飯だから、昼飯が楽しみだ」と言って出かけたという。弁当箱は歪み、蓋には穴が開き、中身は真っ黒に炭化している。
この小さな箱には、息子を思う母親の愛情と、質素な大豆ご飯を楽しみにしていた少年の無邪気さが詰まっている。たとえ原爆の体験者が一人もいなくなっても、弁当箱が朽ちて化石になっても、小さな箱に潜む声を聴き取ろうとする者がいる限り、記憶は途絶えない。死者の声は永遠であり、人間はそれを運ぶための小舟、つまり文学の言葉を持っているのだから。
ここから急にカズオ・イシグロになるかは？？（単に好きだから、書き留めておきたいから・・・）
The full text of Nobel Prize-winning British novelist Kazuo Ishiguro’s message for Sunday’s 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing in Nagasaki （2020/8/9）
This is the anniversary of a terrible event. But this milestone also marks seventy five years during which time there has been no repeat of what was inflicted on the people of Nagasaki that day. My mother, then a teenager in the city, was able to go on to enjoy a long peaceful life. So this is an anniversary that brings triumph and hope, as well as horror and sadness.
Let us not forget how fragile our civilization remains. And in our current, troubled times, let us not forget the importance of the international cooperation and understanding that has brought us safely through these years. Let us remember the huge dangers that continue to threaten us, and the supreme value of human life.
It’s so sad that I needed to say sudden forever good-bye to my dear friend. She passed away a week ago. She was such a wonderful woman with golden heart, always kind to EVERYBODY. It is just amazing. We had so much good time, not only among friends but also in person. I’ll never forget her tenderness, friendly smile and generous goodwill. Thank you Pyrrah. You were so precious and significant in presence. I loved the word “mellow” you said when you talked about one of your daughter. I want to see her. I want to know who she is!
Pyrrah became more concentrated to her own project.
I’ve never imagined that it was the last outing with Pyrrah. She was with Tanya. She looked a bit weaker than before, but looked fit and OK. They bought a big Miura radish at the farm and asked me how to cook. We had such a intimate good time together, then said good-bye when they changed the train to Yokosuka. I did not want to say forever “sayonara” to her that day!!!
Weather
On a scrap of paper in the archive is written
I have forgotten my umbrella. Turns out
in a pandemic everyone, not just the philosopher,
is without. We scramble in the drought of information
held back by inside traders. Drop by drop. Face
covering? No, yes. Social distancing? Six feet
under for underlying conditions. Black.
Just us and the blues kneeling on a neck
with the full weight of a man in blue.
Eight minutes and forty-six seconds.
In extremis, I can’t breathe gives way
to asphyxiation, to giving up this world,
and then mama, called to, a call
to protest, fire, glass, say their names, say
their names, white silence equals violence,
the violence of again, a militarized police
force teargassing, bullets ricochet, and civil
unrest taking it, burning it down. Whatever
contracts keep us social compel us now
to disorder the disorder. Peace. We’re out
to repair the future. There’s an umbrella
by the door, not for yesterday but for the weather
that’s here. I say weather but I mean
a form of governing that deals out death
and names it living. I say weather but I mean
a November that won’t be held off. This time
nothing, no one forgotten. We are here for the storm
that’s storming because what’s taken matters.
Born in 1963 in Kingston, Jamaica, poet Claudia Rankine earned a BA at Williams College and an MFA at Columbia University. Rankine has published several collections of poetry, including Citizen: An American Lyric (2014), a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry, the PEN Center USA Poetry Award, and the Forward poetry prize; Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric (2004); and Nothing in Nature is Private (1994), which won the Cleveland State Poetry Prize.
加藤周一（知の巨人と呼ばれた）作詞になる名曲さくら横ちょう。中村恵理さんも歌ったし、最近では加来徹さんもYouTubeで歌っている。みんなで英訳してみようという話がでたので、ふるさとのあのサクラを思いながら訳してみた。Pat先生は「良い」と言ってくださった。自分では65％ぐらいのいい出来だと思う。
春の宵 さくらが咲くと
花ばかり さくら横ちょう
想い出す 恋の昨日(きのう)
君は もうここにいないと
ああ いつも 花の女王
ほほえんだ 夢のふるさと
春の宵 さくらが咲くと
花ばかり さくら横ちょう
会い見る時は なかろう
「その後どう」「しばらくねえ」と
言ったって
はじまらないと 心得て
花でも 見よう
春の宵 さくらが咲くと
花ばかり さくら横ちょう
この詩については、「羊の歌」にそのいきさつを書いている。 『八幡宮から学校までの道には、両側に桜が植えられていた。その桜は老木で、春には素晴らしい花をつけた。桜横町とよばれたその道には、住宅の間にまじって、いくつかの商店もあり、そこで子供たちは、鉛筆や雑記帳を買い、学校の早く終った時には、戯れながら暇をつぶしていた。（略）桜横町には、男の子も、女の子も、文房具屋のおかみさんも、自転車で通るそば屋の小僧も、郵便配達もいたのである。学校に近かったから、道玄坂などとはちがって、半ば校庭の延長のようでもあり、しかし校庭とはちがって、町の生活ともつながっていた。私は二つの世界が交り、子供と大人が同居し、未知なるものが身近かなるものに適度の刺戟をあたえるその桜横町のひとときを好んでいた。』 その横町の住宅に、同じ小学校に通う娘がいた。「大柄で、華かで、私にはかぎりなく美しいと思われたが」一度も言葉を交わしたことがなかった。「女王のようにいつも崇拝者たちを身の廻りにあつめているその娘を、私は遠くから眺め」「二人きりになることができたらどんなによいだろうか、と空想していた。」
その桜横町を、彼は「いくさの最中に、何度か」想い出した。それを、「十六世紀フランスに流行したロンデルの韻を借りて」作ったのがこの作品である。
spring night when cherry trees blossom
flowers everywhere cherry streetI remember the love of yesterday you are no longer here
always queen of the flowers, smiling in the home of dreams
spring night when cherry trees blossom
flowers everywhere cherry streetthe time will never come to see you again
“how have you been, it has been so long”I know there is no use to talk this way,
I may as well look at the flowersspring night when cherry trees blossom
flowers everywhere cherry street
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Did you know that there are over 30 different English accents in England alone? And that’s not all. Would you believe there are over a hundred different English dialects accross the world? In this lesson, I will tell you about some common British accents you might hear. You’ll hear examples of Cockney, RP, Estuary, Northern, Scottish, Welsh, and many more accents. Don’t miss this opportunity to add some spice to your English pronunciation and comprehension! Take the quiz at http://www.engvid.com/learn-british-a…
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TRANSCRIPT Hi. I’m Gill at www.engvid.com, and today’s lesson is about accents in the U.K. So, U.K. accents and also dialects. Okay, so what’s the difference between an accent and a dialect? Right. Well, an accent, as you know, is to do with pronunciation, how you pronounce the word. Dialect is when you have a word that only people in a certain area of the country use; it’s not a national word, it’s a local word that maybe people from other parts of the country, they won’t even know what it means, so that’s dialect. Okay.
So, let’s just have a look through some of the accents that we have in the U.K. The one that you’re probably learning as you’re learning to pronounce English words is RP. “RP” stands for “Received Pronunciation”. It’s a slightly strange term. “Received” where do you receive it from? Well, maybe you receive it from your teacher. This is how to say this word. It’s a slightly strange expression, but RP, it’s usually referred to by the initials. And it’s the kind of accent you will hear if you’re watching BBC Television programs or listening to BBC Radio.
Not everybody on the BBC speaks with an RP accent. The news readers tend to be RP speakers, but not always. But the strange thing is that in this country, only a very small percentage of people do speak with this accent. Apparently, just 3%, but they tend to be people in positions of power, authority, responsibility. They probably earn a lot of money. They live in big houses. You know the idea.
So, people like the Prime Minster, at the moment David Cameron, he went to a private school, he went to university, Oxford, so people who have been to Oxford and Cambridge Universities often speak in RP, even if they didn’t speak in RP before they went to Oxford or Cambridge, they often change their accent while they are there because of the big influence of their surroundings and the people that they’re meeting.
So that’s RP. It’s a very clear accent. So, it’s probably a good idea to either learn to speak English with an RP accent, or you may be learning with an American accent, a Canadian accent, all of those accents are very clear.
Okay. And being clear is the most important thing. Okay, so moving on. RP, as I should have said, is mostly in the south of the country; London and the south. So, also “Cockney” and “Estuary English” are in the south. Okay. So, Cockney is the local London accent, and it tends to spread further out to places like Kent, Essex, other places like that. Surrey. There’s a newer version of Cockney called “Estuary English”. If you think an estuary is connected to a river, so the River Thames which flows across the country, goes quite a long way west. So anyone living along the estuary, near the river can possibly have this accent as well.
So, just to give you some examples, then, of the Cockney accent, there are different features. So, one example is the “th” sound, as you know to make a “th” sound, some of you may find it difficult anyway, “the”, when you put your tongue through your teeth, “the”, but a Cockney person may not use the “the”, they will use an “f” sound or a “v” sound instead, so the word “think”, “I think”, they would say would say instead of: “think”, they would say it like that: “fink”, “fink”, and the top teeth are on the bottom lip, “think”.
And words like “with” that end with the “th”, instead of “with”, it will be “wiv”, “wiv”, “wiv”. “Are you coming wiv me?” So that is one of the things that happens with the Cockney accent. Words like “together” would be “togever”. Okay? The number “three”, t-h-r-e-e is often pronounced “free”: “We have free people coming to dinner. Free people.”
So, there can be confusion there, because we have the word “free”, which has a meaning in itself, “free”, but if you actually mean “three”, the number three, there can be some confusion. So don’t get confused by “free people”. -“Oh, they’re free? They’re free to come?” -“No, there are three of them. Three people who are free to come.” Ah, okay.
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