Kyoto
Where does this name remind you of?
Blanco?
Well, here is the story by Lesley Downer schortened by me. Why didn't JJ Norwich by editing the book Great cities...' choose a Japanese historian? To some questions one never get an answer.
(I am allowed to copy ten percent, if I am right. The text contains 1055 words, excluding a quote)
The quote.
When you look out over the present Kyoto from the west gate of Kiyomizu temple, you see such long crowded rows of white-walled storehouses that in summer, in the early sunlight, the city sparkles as if on a snowy morning. (Ihara Saikaku, 1686)
How would, recently, a polar bear react to this? Would she be attracted, be melting? Stop walking circles around the Northpole?
And then Lesley starts writing.
For the most of its thousand-year history, the city we (we?) know (know?) as Kyoto was called Miyako- the Capital. Kyoto was founded in 794 by Emperor Kammu, who chose for his new capital a location which fitted the rules of geomancy ( rules of geomancy?) : a broad bowl-shaped valley surrounded by tree-clad hills, bordered by sparkling rivers to east and west. He named it Heian- kyo - the capital of peace and tranquility. Poets called it the city of purple hills and crystal streams.
This jewellike civilization left one remarkable monument, the world first novel. 'The tale of Genji', written by a court lady in the 11th century, which depicts the lives and loves of those pampered courtiers.
Warlords- flames-battle- shogun- ruler of Japan- Tokyo- flowering- golden- building programme-
extravagante- tea ceremony- cherrywood- garden- the whole world in minitiature- peace- pleasure
quarters-bad places- glamour- carnival- populous- sacred- cultural heart- no American bombings-new war- concrete (the material)- railway station
I wonder, do Asenenmoto, Emzoe and Greeningen (proposed new exotic names for Assen, Emmen and Groningen) had or have a Saikaku, a du Perron, Marsman or Venusvrouw? Or maybe a yet unknown Chinese person who tells tales. A person like Ai Wei Wei. Would this name mean ' Och arme wij'? , 'Oh, we pour souls!', in Chinese? Is that what we have in common?
Is this allowed for a young historian? A juvenile. Or is the little bird imagining too much?
Stop.
Where does this name remind you of?
Blanco?
Well, here is the story by Lesley Downer schortened by me. Why didn't JJ Norwich by editing the book Great cities...' choose a Japanese historian? To some questions one never get an answer.
(I am allowed to copy ten percent, if I am right. The text contains 1055 words, excluding a quote)
The quote.
When you look out over the present Kyoto from the west gate of Kiyomizu temple, you see such long crowded rows of white-walled storehouses that in summer, in the early sunlight, the city sparkles as if on a snowy morning. (Ihara Saikaku, 1686)
How would, recently, a polar bear react to this? Would she be attracted, be melting? Stop walking circles around the Northpole?
And then Lesley starts writing.
For the most of its thousand-year history, the city we (we?) know (know?) as Kyoto was called Miyako- the Capital. Kyoto was founded in 794 by Emperor Kammu, who chose for his new capital a location which fitted the rules of geomancy ( rules of geomancy?) : a broad bowl-shaped valley surrounded by tree-clad hills, bordered by sparkling rivers to east and west. He named it Heian- kyo - the capital of peace and tranquility. Poets called it the city of purple hills and crystal streams.
This jewellike civilization left one remarkable monument, the world first novel. 'The tale of Genji', written by a court lady in the 11th century, which depicts the lives and loves of those pampered courtiers.
Warlords- flames-battle- shogun- ruler of Japan- Tokyo- flowering- golden- building programme-
extravagante- tea ceremony- cherrywood- garden- the whole world in minitiature- peace- pleasure
quarters-bad places- glamour- carnival- populous- sacred- cultural heart- no American bombings-new war- concrete (the material)- railway station
I wonder, do Asenenmoto, Emzoe and Greeningen (proposed new exotic names for Assen, Emmen and Groningen) had or have a Saikaku, a du Perron, Marsman or Venusvrouw? Or maybe a yet unknown Chinese person who tells tales. A person like Ai Wei Wei. Would this name mean ' Och arme wij'? , 'Oh, we pour souls!', in Chinese? Is that what we have in common?
Is this allowed for a young historian? A juvenile. Or is the little bird imagining too much?
Stop.
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