Kindly make a comment to the poem in terms of the sense of language as a native English speaker Lemon Elegy You waited a lemon for such a long time Lying on the sad and white deathbed. You took a lemon from my hand And bite into it with your beautiful teeth Then the Topaz colored fragrance permeated the air The few drops of gifted lemon juice Brought you back in a flash Your clear blue eyes smiled faintly I felt the vigor through the power you griped my hands You had a storm in your throat On the brink of life Chieko came back to Chieko You put your whole life time of love into this moment And in this moment You took a deep breath like on the peak of the mountain And the engine stopped forever Under the Cherry blossoms offered to your photo I put a fresh, shining lemon today as well. (The poem was written in Japanese originally and I translated it to English. Chieko is the poet's wife who had a mental disease )

英詩の翻訳練習：雪 白雪の暗がりで　 白雪の静けさで ため息ついている少女は 苦々しそうに言っている　　　 『白い鳥は巣の上で殺された　 胸の綿毛がパタパタと震えている』　 雪の鳥は薄明かりを通り抜け 少女の泣き声で落ちた （こは詩かどうか言えませんが、詩から見れば、コメントよろしくお願いします）

Please make a comment to the poem in terms of the sense of language as a native English speaker France is where I'd like to go, but France is so far away... Maybe I could just get a new suit and travel to where my feet and the train will take me. as we chug up a mountain pass, I lean against the sky blue window following my own carefree thoughts ---dewy shoots of grass unfurling on a May morning. (Question: As a native English speaker, when you read this poem, is there anything you feel uncomfortable in terms of the language sense or any other)

The failure The failure is caused by the total things that the person has done until then so I have doubted it couldn’t be other outcome for a long time. It depends on the person’s character, general education, environment and the course of events. It seems everyone is not so smart that we should care for each other.

ティーパーティー1 昔、アイルランドの祖母の家の付近にある少年が住んでいた。名前はイブラードで、１４歳であった。私はその頃１２歳で、氏を毛虫のように嫌がった。だが、祖母は隣人などを誘って、ティーパーティーを開くが好きだった。しかも、温かい茶菓子が載せ、敵意のある小さな蓋付きお皿があるティーパーティーであった。また、呼び集められた婦人たちに上品的にこの敵意のあるお皿を回すのは私の任務と言われた。いわゆる右手でお皿を持ちながら、左手で蓋を掲げ、茶菓子を渡すことであった。しかし、この一連の動作は私にとって物理的に不可能であった。片方の手で磨きながらもう片方の手で押さえることを伴う耐え難しい訓練のように煩わしいからであった。婦人たちのそばを通りながら、グループの中で渡る時で蓋を大きく開けていてゲストに茶菓子を渡す時で蓋をしっかり閉めていた。一回もこの正しい組み合わせが成功しなかった。例えば、歩き回りながらお皿をしっかり閉めなかった、茶菓子を渡しながらもてなしの良く開けなかった。

Japan Even as a Japanese historian I travel a lot and you may question about that. It is because I can know more if I leave Japan and it is time to write Japanese history in the modern world history. The far I leave Japan, the more I can know. That is an objective Japan and a Japan as part of world. I had considered the things related to Japan when I were in North America and Europe. Under the stimulus of the world gaze of “what is Japan”, we can view Japan from all different angles.