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「願いましてぇは、5円なりぃ、98円なりぃ、105円なりぃ、369円なりぃ、引くことの23円なりぃ、足すことの110円なりぃ...」
"Now pLease calculate: 5 yen narrie, 98 yen narrie, 105 yen narrie, 369 yen narrie, subtract 23 yen narrie, add 110 yen narrie..."


母と一緒に受付窓口に向かおうとしてドアを押し開いて中に入ったとたん、お兄さん先生のかけ声が耳に飛び込んできた。演算をしきるためのものであり、その人の足元に座卓上のそろばんに向かう生徒たちが部屋いっぱいにいて、若い先生のよく通る声を聞きながら一斉に珠を弾く。かけ声のほかは、カチャカチャカチャカチャというタマが木枠にぶつかる音が響くだけだった。

As soon as we pushed open the door to go to the reception desk with my mother, the call of the older brother teacher jumped into my ears from inside. The room was full of students who were sitting at the feet of the teacher to work on their tabletop abacuses, and they were all playing the beads at once while listening to the young teacher's clear voice. The only sound other than the shouting was the clattering of the beads against the wooden frame.


「8円なりぃ、93円なりぃ、154円なりぃ、212円なりぃ、123円なりぃ、では」
"8 yen narrie, 93 yen narrie, 154 yen narrie, 212 yen narrie, 123 yen narrie, that's it!"


ぴたりと「では」で、珠の音が止まった。
With a crisp "that's it," the bead sound stopped.


「はい、大川くん」
"Okawa-kun, the result, please."


指名された生徒が「1280円なーりぃー」と答える。
The nominated student replies, "1,280 yen narrie."


「ご明算。次いきましょう。ご破算で願いましてぇは、....」
"Well done. Let's move on. Let's calculate ...."


連れられてやって来たのは井草町にある鑁阿寺の真ん前、濠の南側の川原井珠算学校だった。学校とは名ばかりで塾のようなものだったが、規模は比較的大きく、通う生徒も多かった。
I was taken to the Kawarai Abacus School facing the south side of the moat of Banna-ji Temple in Igusa-cho. The school was a cram school, which was relatively large and many students attended.


最初の印象は、こりゃだめ、長続きしないだった。
My first impression was, "This is no good for me, I'll quit soon."


母はこちらの気持ちにはお構いなしに入会手続きを進めた。習字でも絵でも嫌だと言ってすぐにやめた本人なのに、懲りない。

My mother proceeded with the admission procedure without regard to my feelings. Her son was a boy who cannot stick to accomplishments and had already quit both calligraphy and painting, but she never learned her lesson.


音楽のお稽古ごとは小学校入学当時の学級音楽隊がカスタネット担当だったこともあって、とっくにあきらめていたようだ。それでも、できなさそうなことを見つけるとこちらに稽古を押しつけた。お使いとか学校のプールが開放されたときの水泳とかも同じ延長線上でやらされた。母親なりになにか方針がある。

She had long given up on music lessons, as he was in charge ofcastanets for the class music band when he entered elementary school. Even so, when she found something he couldn't do, she forced him to practice it. She also made him run errands and swim when the school pool was open, as an extension of the same practice. The mothers had their own policies.


それでも、しぶしぶながら習字も絵も最初の3回くらいまでは行けた。しかし、どうしても続かない。いやなものはいやだ。近所でガキ大将として遊ぶほうがはるかにいい。知らないうちに時間が過ぎたことを装って、さぼってやめる。

Still, reluctantly, I was able to get through both of the first three lessons. However, I just couldn't continue. I don't like what I don't like. It would be much better to play as a kid
general in the neighborhood. I would pretend that time had passed without my knowing it, and skip it and quit.


こうしたことは母親との闘いだった。習字が下手。絵が下手。お使いができればいい。水泳ができない。計算が苦手みたい。ということから、いろいろやらせる。こっちはそれでいいじゃないか、どこが悪い、なのでかみあわない。

These things are a struggle with my mother. Not a good calligrapher. Not good at drawing. Will be good at running errands. Can't swim. Not good at math. So, I am made to do many kinds of things. We are not getting along with each other because I say, "That's good enough, what's wrong with it?"


学校の先生の評価も似たようなもの。学校は勉強中心で案外話が楽。たいへんよくできました。よくできました。ふつう。もうすこしがんばりましょう。いろんなものにこうしたスタンプが最終的、決定的に押される。評価の波をかいくぐって、だれもが泳いでいく。

School teacher evaluations are similar. School is study-centered and easier to talk about than one might think. Very well done. Well done. Not so good. Let's work a little harder. These are the final and decisive stamps on many things. No one can help swimming through the waves of evaluation.


かけっこは近所でよくやっていたから案外好きだし、人並みの速さは出た。相撲が体育になかったのは残念だった。ドッジボールはふつう。逆上がりはもうすこしがんばりましょう。水泳はだめだめ。休みの日に公開された学校のプールに隣の家のかずえお姉さんが連れて行ってくれたが、沈没するのを見てあきれかえられた。

I liked running track better than I expected because I used to do it a lot in the neighborhood as fast as anyone. It was a pity that sumo wrestling was not a part of PE. Dodgeball is not so good. Let's work a littlle harder on my back hip circle or pullover. Swimming was no good. My neighbor's sister Kazue took me to the school pool, which was open to the public on holidays, but she was disappointed to see me sinking.


そろばんは使い方の説明がたいへん面白かった。まず手前から両手で持って斜めに傾け、すべての珠をおろして0の状態を作る。1は下の段の珠を1つだけ上に上げる。4つ上げて、さらにもう1つ足すときには、全部を下げ、代わりに上の段の1つしかない珠を上げる。10の位、100の位もこういう仕組みで同じように進める。素晴らしい計算機だった。が、それでも遊びのほうが勝った。

The explanation of how to use the abacus was very interesting. First, you hold it with both hands from the front and tilt it at an angle, then lower all the beads to make 0. For 1 you raise only one bead on the bottom row.  When all the 4 were up and  you must add one more, lower all the beads and raise only one bead on the top row instead. 10s and 100s proceed in the same way, using this mechanism. It was a great calculator, but still the fun won out.





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エクササイズ
自律訓練法
頻尿
パニック障害
ポイ活初体験
マイボーム腺機能不全
飛蚊症と後部硝子体剥離
目の出血
飛蚊症,光視症,ブルーフィールド内視現象,さらにおまけに新たな敵
心電図のT波異常
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脳の言語野の神経回路の急な成長
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左右仲良く
耳鳴り
ぐらぐらする歯
下肢動脈硬化症
血栓性静脈炎
鬱滞性皮膚炎
下肢静脈瘤
空気嚥下症(呑気症)と腸内ガス
風邪ウイルスにもシナモン
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[Love, Marriage]
 Take away love and...
 There is no sincerer love ...
 Who ever loved ...
 Choose in marriage only...
 Cooking is like love. ...
 A lover teaches a wife...
 The thing that takes the least ...
 One word frees us...
 A pity beyond telling...
 Agreement is never reached...

[Home]
 Be it ever so humble, ...
 The dog is a lion...
 A home without ...
 Home is any four ...

[Time]
 To fill the hour...
 You may delay, but...
 If I say to the moment...
 Time is a great teacher, but...
 Time itself comes in drops.  ...
 I cannot afford to waste...
 Do not dwell in the past...
 The trouble with our times...
 We are not free to...

[Happiness]
 A lifetime of happiness!...
 The greatest happiness...
 We are never so happy or...
 The happiness of society...

[Life, Live]
 Life is not always...
 Life can only be understood...
 Life is half spent before...
 Life is like an onion...
 The first half of our lives...
 To live is like to love...
 Live as if you were...
 Live simply so that ...
 I have learned to...
 At 46 one must be ...
 Forty is the old age...
 Old age is the most ...
 I still find each day too short...

[Truth]
 Love truth, but...
 When everyone is...
 When people hear good...
 Don't knock the weather...
 One father is more than...
 A man who has been...
 Papa, potatoes, ...
 Your children are not your children...
 It is always the best policy...

[God, Super Natural, Fortune]
 If I had been present at...
 God is a comedian...
 I only went out for a walk, but...
 When Fortune comes...
 Fortune is a woman...
 Fortune is proverbially called...
 Some people are so...

[Eye]
 One eye sees,...
 I shut my eyes...
 It is only with the heart...

[Bed]
 As you make your bed, so...
 In bed my real love...

[Flower]
 Flowers are like...
 The flower is the poetry of...

[Friend]
 A friend is a person...
 True friends stab...
 It is easier to forgive...
 A home-made friend...
 If all men knew what...
 When we remember...
 Men fear death, ...
 Man lives freely only by...
 Start every day off...

[Human Beings]
 Poor human nature...
 The human being is ...
 Really I don't like ...

[Neighbor]
 The Bible tells us to...
 It is easier to love...
 How awful to ...

[Vegetables]
 The whole vegetable tribe...
 It is said that the effect of...
 Lettuce doth extinguish...
 Cabbage: A familiar...

[Reality]
 Reality can destroy the dream...
 Do what we can...
 Summer set lip to ...
 Do what you can...
 In this world, nothing is...
 It is difficult to say...
 The reality of the other person...

[Types]
 There are two types of...
 There are three kinds of...
 There are three things...
 Never bear more than ...

[Reason, Sense]
 Reason is the substance...
 Nothing is more fairly distributed...
 Common sense is ...
 Common sense in an uncommon ...

[Self]
 If I am I because I am I...
 I sometimes give myself...
 O what a happy soul am I!...
 I am two fools...
 A man has as many social selves...
 I think. Therefore...
 I think that I think; therefore...
 Sometimes I think; sometimes...
 One may understand the cosmos...

[Politics]
 In politics stupidity is...
 Those who are too ...

[Education]
 Experience is a good ...
 All things are difficult...
 Education makes a people...
 A man may be...
 Education has produced...
 Find enough clever ...

[Books]
 I know every book...
 What is the use of...
 Some books are to...

[Human beings]
 Where is human nature ...
 If I read a book ...
 Even if you do learn to...
 Words may be false...
 If the misery of the poor...
 Poverty wants some things...
 Youth is a continual...

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 No bird soars too high...
 The weather for catching...
 Japan: Everything there...
 If a centipede loses...
 To think we are able ...
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👣 足利 目次

1 様変わり
 おや? 我が家の前に郵便局?
2 裏通りに群衆が
3 女の子と相撲を
4 鑁阿寺の濠で溺れかけ
 そのような叫び声を叫ぶとは...
5 神はトラックの運転手だった
6 授業中の笑いと蛮行
7 薪割り
8 もちつき
9 永遠の眠り姫
 我が家にチビという名前の猫がいた。
10 甘い椎の実
11 郵便局が燃えた
12 映画館の話
13 はるかな記憶
14 はるかな記憶ーその2
15 バイパス
 やあ、そっちの上のほうじゃ...
16 渡良瀬川
17 親戚訪問
18 路地の行く末
19 足利の山々
 渡良瀬橋を渡るとすぐに鳥居が...
20 青山医院
21 床屋
  [22 あたり一面真黄色
 11月になると、市役所のまわりの銀杏...
23 秘密
24 母の病気
25 出会い
 空がすばらしく青い秋の日の午後...
26 マーくん
27 チビのお墓
28 納豆かまんじゅうか
 冬が来ると、寒い早朝に納豆売り...
29 驚いて全力疾走
30 足利から桐生へ、さらに大間々へ
31 一芸に秀でる
 勝ちゃんは指相撲と腕相撲は誰にも...
32 共益会館
33 母の姉妹
34 女の子をぞろぞろ引き連れて
 その日は雨上がりで傘を...
35 ちびっこたち
36 ギターと本箱と狐の毛皮の襟巻き
37 中途半端な話
38 書き取り帳
39 父の代わりに兄が
40 恐怖のちゃぶ台返し
41 かんしゃく玉
42 路地の行く末 II
43 七五三の記念写真
 七五三の記念に撮った白黒の写真...
44 桜餅
45 桜餅の思いの丈
46 白菜の漬物
47 できちゃった
48 池がある家

49 路地で遊ぶ
50 花火大会
51 犬のしっぽ
52 狂うのを恐れる
53 尾行
54 東京に出かける
55 大太鼓
56 パチンコ
57 萩原くん
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♿ Index of Mute +Ashikaga

[Exercise]
[Autogenic Training Method]
[One-man Bon Odori Dance Festival]
[Frequent urination]
[Panic Disorder]
[ポイ活初体験](No English)

[Mutekatsu-ryu: Meibomian gland dysfunction(MGD)]
[Floaters & Posterior Vitreous Detachment]
[Bleeding in the White of the Eye]
[Floaters, Photopsia, Blue Field Entoptic Phenomenon, with...]
[White and Purple]

[Abnormal Electrocardiographic T-wave]
[Quitting Smoking]
[A rapid growth of neural circuits in the language area of the brain cortex]
[Magical Pellet]
[Make friends, Leftsy and Rightsy]
[Tinnitus]
[Wobbly teeth]

[Lower limb rteriosclerosis(ASO)]
[Thrombophlebitis]
[Dermatitis Congestiva]
[Varicose Veins]

[Aerophagia & Intestinal Gas]
[Cinnamon is good for the flu virus]
[Anti-Laziness, Practice!]

[Small hiragana in Japanese]
[Yoshiko hit Waruo]
[Japanese Reading]
[Gymnema]
[Farewell to Gymnema!]

[Urinary Retention and Drainage]
[How you can pass water or how you cannot]
[Blood glucose level of 500 mg/dl]
[The disease name was prostate abscess and type II diabetes mellitus (hospitalization notes #2) ]
[Stopped Drinking]
[Inpatient Wards and Privacy]



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♿ The City of Ashikaga Index

[1 All Changed]
 Oh my god! A post office ....?
[2 Collective Madness]
[3 Sumo]
[4 Almost Drowned]
[5 Truck Driver Saved Me]
[6 Teachers]
[7 Firewood Splitting]
[8 Pounding Mochi]
[9 Chibi Was Killed]
 We had a cat whose name was Chibi.
[10 Sweet Acorns]

[11 Fire at the Post Office]
[12 Movies]
[13 Distant Memory]
[14 Distant Memory II]
[15 Bypass]
 Hi, what's going on...?
[16 The Watarase]
[17 Visiting Relatives]
[18 Where the Alley Goes]
[19 Mountains in Ashikaga]
 As sson as you cross ...
[20 Aoyama Clinic]

[21 Barbar's]
  [22 All Yellow Around]
 Around the City Hall In Novembe...
[23 A Secret]
[24 My mother's illness]
[25 An Encounter]
 It was an autumn afternoon.
[26 Ma-kun]
[27 Chibi's Grave]
[28 Natto or Manju?]
 During winter, a lady came along the street...
[29 Surprised and Running Back at Full Speed]
[30 From Ashikaga to Kiryu, to Omama]

[31 Master in One Art\]
 Katchan is second to none in...
[32 Community Benefit Center]
[33 My Mother's Sisters]
[34 Chased after by a Group of Girls]
 It was after rain that day and...
[35 The Little Ones]
[36 Guitar, Bookcase and Fox Fur Collar]
[37 Half-baked Story]
[38 Chinese Character Exercise Notebook]
[39 In Place of My Father, My Brother....]
[40 Terrifying Overturn of the Table]

[41 Cracker Balls]
[42 Where the Alley Goes II]
[43 Photos Taken in Memory of 753]
 We had two black-and-white photos taken...
[44 Sakura-mochi]
[45 What's Sakura Mochi Dreaming?]
[46 Pickled Chinese Cabbage]
[47 An Affair]
[48 House with a Pond]
[49 Playing in the Alley]
[50 Fireworks Show]

[51 Dog's Tail]
[52 Fear of Going Mad]
[53 Shadowing]
[54 Visiting Tokyo]
[55 The Huge Drum]
[56 Pachinko]
[57 Hagiwara-kun]



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雲は山をめぐり
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Born in Ashikaga City, Tochigi Prefecture. From Yanagihara Elementary School to Ashikaga 1st Junior High, Ashikaga High, Sundai, University of Tokyo, BA in Literature, dropped out of Law, in college for 10 years.

Worked in English-related fields, first as a translator of Silhouette Romance and then various translations, as well as working for Kawade Shobo, Shogakukan's Progressive English-Japanese Dictionary, and "Diagram Series Entrance Exam English" (Kirihara), and "Eiken Level 1 Exercise Book" (Gakken).

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