{"id":1742,"date":"2024-04-11T13:52:03","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T04:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/?post_type=messages&#038;p=1742"},"modified":"2025-02-13T10:47:53","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T01:47:53","slug":"greetings-from-the-outskirts-of-kyoto-vol-41","status":"publish","type":"messages","link":"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/en\/messages\/1742\/","title":{"rendered":"Greetings from the Outskirts of Ky\u014dto vol.41"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a \u201cKy\u014dto\u201d bank in Bangkok, Thailand. A Chinese bank is doing business there under the name of \u201cKy\u014dto.\u201d Bangkok is the Thai capital; the king is resident there. The name \u201cKy\u014dto\u201d was added precisely because the bank operates in such a city.<\/p>\r\n<p>The <em>kanji<\/em> for both <em>ky\u014d<\/em> and <em>to<\/em> refer to the capital city and to the monarch\u2019s residence. If you join them together, they come to mean \u201cthe capital of capitals.\u201d The name \u201cKy\u014dto\u201d is thus inappropriate for what in Japan today is but one regional city among many. The city deserving of such a name is surely T\u014dky\u014d. After all, it performs the functions of a capital city, and the emperor is resident there.<\/p>\r\n<p>But Japan\u2019s capital styles itself \u201cT\u014dky\u014d,\u201d the \u201ceastern capital.\u201d This was out of respect for the old capital of Ky\u014dto. They shifted the seat of government and the emperor, but they left the name in place. Such was the concern for the old capital. T\u014dky\u014d was content to be \u201ceastern capital.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>But surely no T\u014dky\u014d resident today regards T\u014dky\u014d as the \u201ceastern capital.\u201d By way of proof, one might refer to the new city, Nishi T\u014dky\u014d. It was so named in 2001, the nuance of its name suggesting \u201cwest of the eastern capital.\u201d No one thinks of Nishi T\u014dky\u014d as \u201cwest eastern capital\u201d!<\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/nichibun_nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/202403-m02-03-1-700x373.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"373\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1738\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/nichibun_nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/202403-m02-03-1-700x373.png 700w, https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/nichibun_nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/202403-m02-03-1-768x409.png 768w, https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/nichibun_nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/202403-m02-03-1-245x131.png 245w, https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/nichibun_nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/202403-m02-03-1-490x261.png 490w, https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/nichibun_nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/202403-m02-03-1.png 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":1743,"template":"","message_category":[23],"class_list":["post-1742","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\/1742","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\/1743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"message_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message_category?post=1742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}