Fun of Good Old Japanese - 江戸・明治に学ぶ　楽しむ生き方

Author: Segawa Kiyoko 、 瀬川清子 人の楽しみの発見度：Very Good   ★★ ☆   Rebuilt irori fireplace and foods  Nagano Prefectural Museum of History 、長野県立歴史館    Eating is one of the most fun things through our life. It is written in this recommendable book about  what ingredients Japanese have eaten, how they have cooked and served . The author (1895-1984) was a pioneering female folklorist and she was the right author for this book, because she had actually cooked.  Until around 1900, people in rural area would have eaten in order to work mainly for farming. There were poor ingredients , because the logistics was not developed and many people avoided eating animal meals due to the Buddhism practice. The cooking methods were also poor. However, there were delicious foods for them . Those were simple meals such as salted sardine which was wrapped by a hohba leaf and was heated up in the ash of an irori fireplace. I wonder whether people at present can t...

Author : Miyamoto Tsuneichi （ 1907-1981 ）、著者：宮本常一 Part1 of this article   Fun of studying 、知る楽しみ ・ Interviewees with literacy 、 文字をもつ伝承者（一） The interview to Mr. Moriwaki is very impressive. He didn’t graduate a college, but passed the national examination and became an elementary school teacher. He was a historian, too. He completed a thousand-page book of his village history and folklore. The author, who was a prominent folklorist, wrote that Mr. Moriwaki wasn’t an ambitious person at all. He just enjoyed absorbing in the research . He invited a college teacher from the prefectural capital at his own expense, and got advice. He also tried to become a postman, because he was deeply interested in place names and family names. He knew the fun of studying. He lived in a mountainous area in Shimane Prefecture of western Japan. 独学で小学校の先生の検定試験に受かって教員をしていた森脇太一氏の学びの意欲は感動物です。氏が住む島根県の山間部に、自費で島根師範から先生を招いて、実地指導を受け、「邑智郡誌」（ 1000 ページ）をまとめました。 「この人はちっとも野心家ではない。そういう事に精力をつかうのが たのし...

Author : Miyamoto Tsuneichi （ 1907-1981 ）、著者：宮本常一 Part1 of this article   Lovemaking 、男女間の楽しみ（性愛の楽しみ） ・ TOSA GENJI 、土佐源氏  Many topics about lovemaking are written in this book, however, this one is a must-read story . The author interviewed a short man who was over eighty, was a beggar and lived in a mountainous area in Shikoku Island of western Japan.  He was a cattle trader. He became blind around thirty years ago. He built a hut under the bridge and lived there with wife. A one-man stage play themed his has been played more than one thousand and two hundred times.  He was an illegitimate child and his mother died soon, so his grandparents raised him. He didn’t go to school and played with babysitter girls. He had the first sexual experience with them when he was around ten. Big sisters and little brothers in the Land of the Rising Sun—Yokohama (1904) 、横浜の子守　 https://www.loc.gov/item/2020637848/   When he was fifteen, his grandfather died...