{"id":1265,"date":"2022-08-30T16:18:47","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T07:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/?post_type=messages&#038;p=1265"},"modified":"2023-01-19T14:15:38","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T05:15:38","slug":"greetings-from-the-outskirts-of-kyoto-vol-23","status":"publish","type":"messages","link":"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/en\/messages\/1265\/","title":{"rendered":"Greetings from the Outskirts of Kyoto vol.23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The street bisecting between the Kamo River and Kiyamachi is known as Pontoch\u014d street. Both sides of it have become familiar to us as Pontoch\u014d. However, there is no way that the character, \u5148, which gives meaning to the place name, can be read as <em>pon<\/em>. How on earth did the name come into being?<\/p>\r\n<p>The tip of a needle or a sword is <em>ponta <\/em>in Portuguese. A promontory, too, is <em>ponta<\/em>. In the sixteenth century, the bank of the Kamo River that now runs along Pontoch\u014d protruded as a promontory. There is a possibility that the Portuguese who came to Japan at that time referred to this section of the bank as a <em>ponta<\/em>. The Japanese perhaps then applied to the word the two characters, \u5148 and \u6597. The idea being that <em>ponta<\/em> is a tip\u2026 Presumably the second character, \u6597, was added for its sound.<\/p>\r\n<p>This explanation for the origin of the place name is not proven. It is known, however, as an authoritative theory, worthy of consideration. The theory that the Portuguese <em>obrigato<\/em> generated <em>arigat\u014d<\/em> has not a leg to stand on \u2026 as the younger me would point out to disappointed Brazilians. However, Pontoch\u014d may well have Portuguese origins. I now think that I should have mentioned this example in order to be a more agreeable conversationalist.<\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/nichibun_nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/202208-\uff4d01-04-700x608.jpg\" alt=\"\u6240\u9577\u63b2\u8f09\u753b\u50cf\uff08\u53e4\u5730\u56f3\uff09\" width=\"700\" height=\"608\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1266 aligncenter\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/nichibun_nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/202208-\uff4d01-04-700x608.jpg 700w, https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/nichibun_nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/202208-\uff4d01-04-1024x889.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/nichibun_nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/202208-\uff4d01-04-768x667.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/nichibun_nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/202208-\uff4d01-04-1536x1333.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/nichibun_nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/202208-\uff4d01-04-2048x1777.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/nichibun_nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/202208-\uff4d01-04-245x213.jpg 245w, https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/nichibun_nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/202208-\uff4d01-04-490x425.jpg 490w, https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/nichibun_nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/202208-\uff4d01-04-726x630.jpg 726w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":1262,"template":"","message_category":[23],"class_list":["post-1265","messages","type-messages","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","message_category-serialization-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/messages\/1265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/messages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/messages"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"message_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message_category?post=1265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}