Topsy-turvy 1585: A Translation and Explication of Luis Frois S.J.'s Tratado (treatise) Listing 611 Ways Europeans & Japanese are ContraryParaverse Press, 2004 - 739페이지 In 1585, Luis Frois, a 53 year old Jesuit who spent all of his adult life in Japan listed 611(!) ways Europeans and Japanese were contrary (completely opposite) to one another. Robin D. Gill, a 53 year old writer who spent most of his adulthood in Japan, translates these topsy-turvy claims - we sniff the top of our melons to see if they are ripe / they sniff the bottom of theirs (10% of the book), examines their validity (20% of the book), and plays with them (70% of the book). Readers with the intellectual horsepower to enjoy ideas will be grateful for pages discussing things like the significance of black and white clothing or large eyes vs. small ones, while others with a ken to collect quirky facts will be delighted to find, say, that the women in Kyoto were known to urinate standing up, or Japanese horses had their stale gathered by long-handled ladles, etc., and serious students of history and comparative culture will gain a better understanding of the nature of radical difference (exotic, by definition) and its relationship with the farsighted policy of accommodation pioneered by Valignano in the Far East. |
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420 페이지 - Which is why I remark, And my language is plain, That for ways that are dark, And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar — Which the same I am free to maintain.
177 페이지 - ... your arse; any way rather than to follow this goblin, matrimony. Alas, sir, do you ever think to find a chaste wife in these times? now? when there are so many masques, plays, Puritan preachings, mad folks, and other strange sights to be seen daily, private and public? If...
326 페이지 - Men's death I tell by doleful knell ; Lightning and thunder I break asunder ; On Sabbath all to church I call ; The sleepy head I raise from bed ; The winds so fierce I do disperse ; Men's cruel rage I do assuage.
5 페이지 - I wonder if I shall fall right through the earth! How funny it'll seem to come out among the people that walk with their heads downwards! The Antipathies, I think...
355 페이지 - Home from my office to my Lord's lodgings where my wife had got ready a very fine dinner — viz. a dish of marrow bones ; a leg of mutton ; a loin of veal ; a dish of fowl, three pullets, and two dozen of larks all in a dish ; a great tart, a neat's tongue, a dish of anchovies ; a dish of prawns and cheese.
41 페이지 - All good people agree, And all good people say, All nice people, like us, are We And everyone else is They: But if you cross over the sea, Instead of over the way, You may end by (think of it!) looking on We As only a sort of They! —Rudyard Kipling "We and They" 106 Cultural effectiveness comes at the cost of vigilance and sustained effort.
216 페이지 - Under no circumstance, upon no plea whatever, can a wife demand a separation from her husband. At home, the wife is mistress of the family ; but, in other respects, she is treated rather as a toy for her husband's recreation, than as the rational, confidential partner of his life. She is to amuse him by her accomplishments, to cheer him with her lively conversation, not to relieve, by sharing, 12 his anxieties and cares. So far from being admitted like Portia, to ' partake the secrets of his heart...
301 페이지 - Upon these spots, consecrated to divinities, they have set up posts, in case there are none already there, to mark the distances. In these posts a long vertical cut is made, about an arsheen and a half above the ground, on which a flat round iron plate turns, like a sheave in a block. Upon this plate the prayer is engraved which is dedicated to the divinity of the place ; to turn it round is equivalent to repeating the prayer, and the prayer is supposed to be repeated as many times as it turns round.
394 페이지 - The natives tell a pleasant tale on this head. A Japanese, as he was carrying up the dead...
394 페이지 - ... in all parts of the town, and to these the animals, in case, of sickness, must be carefully conveyed by the inhabitants.