Интересующиеся эпохой Мэйдзи в основном и Сакамото Ремой в частности

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04.08.2008 в 21:22

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Нашла в университетской библиотеке книгу "Sakamoto Ryma and the Meiji Restoration". Полезной информации много:
Из интересного: Рeма пишет сестре про Орьо (свою будущую жену) :
(...)there was a doctor, Sosaku Ki (...). He recently became ill and died, leaving a wife, three daughters, and two sons. Of the sons, Taro is fairly bright, and Jiro is only 5. The oldest daughters is 23, the next 16, and the youngest 12.
Now this was a good family, trained in flower arrangements, perfume, the tea ceremony and so on, but they have nothing to eat and no one to look to. It seems the doctor inherited nothing, and he had no relatives. Sometimes they have been so hard up that they´have to borrow household implements and return them after using them. They sold first their house, then their belongigs, and then the oldest girl began selling her clothes so that her mother and younger sisters wouldn't have to do the same thing.
But then the youngest girl, who is unusually beautiful, was duped by some scoundrel and sold into the Shimabara as a maiko; the same villain, without saying anything to the mother, took the girl who is 16 and sold her to an Osaka brothel. The five-year old boy entered a Shibataguchi temple as an acolyte.
When the eldest sister realized this, she sold her last good kimono, headed for Osaka, and confronted the villians there. She didn't care if they killed her, and she carried a dagger. When they saw how determined she was, the scoundrel showed her the tattoo on his arm and shouted threats at her. But she had come prepared to die, and so she flew at him, grabbing his clothing, striking him ih the face, and exclaimed that if he didn't return the younger sister he had brought to Osaka with him she would stab him. The wretch shouted, "Look out, woman, or I'll kill you!" They went at each other with shouts of "Kill!" and "Do you worst!" After all, through, he couldn't very well murder the woman who had come to Osaka, and so she was able to get her younger sister back and take her to Kyoto with her again. Isn't that a story? The youngest dauther in the Shimabara is in no danger immediately, so she has left her there for now.
October 1865
И в конце письма:
"I must say, she has more strenght than I do."
Про Сакамото Рема можно прочитать
тут.

@темы: Шинсен и эпоха Мэйдзи

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[Какая Прелесть]

Отличный отрывок, большое спасибо
Ох, чувствую, что скоро дойду до закупки книг на амазоне...

[Волчица Юлия]

Какая Прелесть Ага, я пожалуй тоже денег понакоплю.

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Договорились!

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