Japan, Kyushu, Miyazaki, Takachiho, Toroku

Toroku and JuRenJi Persimmon Tree Story: KamiShibai...
https://sakamoto-masanao.com/en/dt_portfolios/jurenji-persimmon-picture-story-show-en/

日本語
https://sakamoto-masanao.com/dt_portfolios/jurenji-persimmon/
#高千穂 #土呂久 #高千穂土呂久 #十連寺柿 #Toroku #JuRenJiPersimmon #PersimmonTree #TorokuScenery

十連寺柿の話;
https://www.asia-arsenic.jp/starting-point/kamishibai/

https://sakamoto-masanao.com/dt_portfolios/jurenji-persimmon/


#山の幸 #土呂久 #十連寺柿
#MountainHarvest #Toroku #JurenjiPersimmon #Persimmons

Great food in Toroku!! All sorts of vegetables, bambi, corn..
むかご、 はすがら、 鹿、 美味しい御飯、 美味しい水、 寿命が伸びるような、喋り、楽しみ...
ハスイモ：
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leucocasia_gigantea
ムカゴ(ヤマイモの)：
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dioscorea_japonica
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A4%E3%83%9E%E3%83%8E%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A2
ハヤトウリ Chayote!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chayote

#Toroku #土呂久 #山の幸 #ご馳走 #TorokuFeast #TakachihoFeast #高千穂ご馳走 #土呂久ご馳走

Phoenix of a tree, the Persimmon tree that illustrates a "Damaged Commons" story of pollution: the mines and kilns for arsenic in Takachiho.
- https://sakamoto-masanao.com/en/dt_portfolios/jurenji-persimmon-picture-story-show-en/
- https://www.asia-arsenic.jp/starting-point/kamishibai/
#Toroku #土呂久 #宮崎県高千穂土呂久 #公害 #十連寺柿 #柿の木 #PersimmonTree #紙芝居

> The Toroku mine was closed in 1962.. when the relief of victims of pollution cases, such as Minamata Disease, Yokkaichi Asthma and Itai-itai Disease, were becoming to the nation-wide social problem, the teachers of Toroku Primary School, where the children of #Toroku were studying, started fact-finding..
In connection with that, one of the victims, Ms. Tsurue Sato, uttered her voice appealing her own relief, and it was known nation widely in 1971.
http://www.akutagawa-jin.com/photostory/english/toroku14.html
#TsurueSato

Timothy George said "the visual story of Toroku is new graves and old houses" or maybe new graves and falling houses... This past weekend I didn't think to (or have time to) take many pictures of graves and pictures from previous visits are not on this computer.. But I've wanted make montages inspired by that comment for some time. These are the best I can do right now, after I've learned more GIMP. #Toroku
#TimothyGeorge
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/230974982
https://www.uri.edu/news/2013/10/uri-professor-talks-about-japans-minamata-chemical-disaster-and-historic-mercury-treaty-signed-in-october-2013/
#SatoTsurue #佐藤鶴江

A beautiful book came in the mail today. The Japanese title is hard to translate in less than a few sentences, but it's by #KazuyukiKawahara, one of the four pillars of Kyushu's #DocumentaryLiterature #記録文学 genre. His newest big books spans gaps left from over 50 years of writings on the beautiful mountain hamlet, #Toroku that was poisoned by arsenic mining and production. It's an honor to receive the book and include it with similarly beautiful and important works.
#川原一之 #土呂久

> ... the condolence payment system was fraught with rumor-mongering, intimidation and outright fraud. Despite the 1897 order and the small sums paid out by Furukawa, the pollution problem continued, and a second Pollution Prevention Committee was created in 1902.
https://apjjf.org/-Robert-Stolz/2331/article.html
I'm reading of #TanakaShozo and seeing the same patterns seen in #Minamata and #Toroku.
#RobertStolz #AshioCopperMine #CondolencePayments #見舞金

Imagine a better translation. I'll see about helping one day.
> “In 50 years, nearly 100 residents died at an average lifespan of 39 years !!”
The shocking findings were announced at the Miyazaki Prefectural Education and Research Meeting.
The media was surprised and made a big report on this news, and the #MiyazakiPrefecture #PollutionDivision was in a hurry and immediately started a health survey of the residents of Toroku.
https://sakamoto-masanao.com/en/dt_portfolios/jurenji-persimmon-picture-story-show-en/
#Toroku #KazuyukiKawahara #MasanaoSakamoto