{"id":1414,"date":"2023-01-30T15:38:32","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T06:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/?post_type=messages&#038;p=1414"},"modified":"2023-02-27T09:03:25","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T00:03:25","slug":"greetings-from-the-outskirts-of-kyoto-vol-28","status":"publish","type":"messages","link":"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/en\/messages\/1414\/","title":{"rendered":"Greetings from the Outskirts of Kyoto vol.28"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The International Research Center for Japanese Studies has always welcomed scholars from many countries. Perhaps the largest contingent has been from China. The other day, we hosted a dialogue for Chinese and Taiwanese scholars who have spent time at Nichibunken.<\/p>\r\n<p>I was invited to the event to give the opening remarks. I spoke of <span><a href=\"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/en\/messages\/1386\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the incident I mentioned in my previous essay<\/a><\/span>, the appearance of a bear around Nichibunken. I hazarded that the bear\u2019s appearance was to be explained by restrictions on people\u2019s movements owing to Covid. The bear came by, I declared, because there were less people around.<\/p>\r\n<p>I received an unexpected reaction from Professor<span> Liu Xiao Feng, who was at Nichibunken in 2013. \u201cI saw a bear back in 2013, but nobody believed me when I told them. So I\u2019m delighted that Professor Inoue\u2019s remarks have vindicated me regarding the presence of bears.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p>I was surprised. There were bears around nine years ago! Then their latest appearance has nothing to do with Covid. Nichibunken is merely a place bears can access easily. I now accept that my earlier theory was mistaken.<\/p>\r\n<div id=\"attachment_1411\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1411\" src=\"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/nichibun_nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/202301-m01-03.jpg\" alt=\"\u30a2\u30ca\u30b0\u30de\u5199\u771f\" width=\"700\" height=\"619\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/nichibun_nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/202301-m01-03.jpg 700w, https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/nichibun_nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/202301-m01-03-245x217.jpg 245w, https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/nichibun_nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/202301-m01-03-490x433.jpg 490w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1411\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A badger prowling the grounds of Nichibunken (photo by Professor Isoda Michifumi, 2019)<\/p><\/div>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":1415,"template":"","message_category":[23],"class_list":["post-1414","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\/1414","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\/1415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"message_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message_category?post=1414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}