After a sledgehammer last week, this week's class appreciated(?) a wedge and an ax. An on-line Japanese page^1 that traces version of an episode in the life of Florence Nightingale gave me the excuse. The rainy season coming early this year and has overwhelmed with fire-wood prep. With the wood piles next to the car it's quicker to leave the tools in the car. I'm more likely to get some chopping done in spare moments without walking back and forth getting tools When you have a dog, cats, and chickens you get distracted while going to (or into) the house for tools. I would be sure to take the extra weight out before long drives, but now the temptation to take my toys (er... tools) to class is another excuse to be lazy and leave the tools in the car. The sore throat from SakuraJima's volcanic ash and the humidity from the early rainy season make it hard to maintain the energy for educational temptations, but it felt like a "now or never" sort of thing. One of the nursing students seemed to enjoy holding the hammer after class last week. The ax and wedge got some giggles this week. Both tools illustrate how wordings change and stories get mangled over time.. I guess the spirit of the story may be maintained or emphasized somehow. The hammer wielded by someone else to break a storeroom door becomes an ax used by Florence herself to break open a chest of medicine. Her "wedges" diagram (a sort of pie chart but an effective and not awful?) comes to be called a "coxcomb" (鶏冠 けいかん とさか) but that was the name she used to refer to her books intended for popular ("vulgar") audiences. Maybe care is needed to avoid the warm fuzzy feeling you get from "wedges" to become perfume for the awful business pie charts. Bringin the "Lines" diagrams in may help with that.
> .. #FlorenceNightingale.. sent for an ax and commanded the storehouse doors to be broken open.
The Pacific Rural Press and California Farmer1887/11/12
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> ここまで来た際に今回、新聞調査の起点とした『19世紀の日本におけるナイチンゲール伝 : 明治期国定修身教科書におけるナイチンゲール像分析のための予備的考察』で紹介されている「安孫子貞治郎訳「フロレンス　ナイチンゲール」『人道之偉人』（1901）」をちゃんと読むことにしました。国会図書館でデジタル化されています。
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> .. the pluck of a Florence Nightingale who when failing to secure bandages for the wounded soldiers at the Crimea sent for an ax and commanded the storehouse doors to be broken...
> もちろん、フローレンス・ナイチンゲールがクリミアで負傷兵のための包帯を確保できなかったとき、斧を差し出し、倉庫の扉を壊して包帯や必要な物資を持ち帰るよう命じたような気概は、世界中から賞賛されている。
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#斧媛 #LadyOfTheAx #ハンマー媛 #LadyOfTheHammer #FlorenceNightingale

> Of course the world admires the pluck of a Florence Nightingale who when failing to secure bandages for the wounded soldiers at the Crimea sent for an ax and commanded the storehouse doors to be broken open and took the bandages and other necessary supplies.
#FlorenceNightingale #LadyOfTheAx #斧の貴婦人 #斧媛 #ハンマーの貴婦人 #ハンマー媛
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