{"id":832,"date":"2021-05-28T11:05:17","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T02:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/?post_type=messages&#038;p=832"},"modified":"2023-01-19T14:04:48","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T05:04:48","slug":"greetings-from-the-outskirts-of-kyoto-vol-8","status":"publish","type":"messages","link":"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/en\/messages\/832\/","title":{"rendered":"Greetings from the Outskirts of Kyoto vol.8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 16 April, there was a gathering of JAPARCHI whose remit is the study of Japanese cities and architecture, and it was conducted in French. Nichibunken hosted the event, which was held online.<\/p>\r\n<p>The opening greeting was my responsibility as Nichibunken director. I was informed that Japanese is fine; and a short 3-minute address would fit the bill. Of course, I readily agreed.<\/p>\r\n<p>However, a mysterious ambition stirred within me. When I was young, I actually spent a year or so engaged in the serious study of French. It served me no good purpose at the time, and I abandoned it thereafter. My French is thoroughly rusty.<\/p>\r\n<p>I thought that I would like to put to the test that linguistic knowledge which, 50 years ago, had come to nothing. I wanted to have a memory of being able to use it. Such were my thoughts as I availed myself of the Japanese-French dictionary, and put together an address in French. I went ahead and delivered it!<\/p>\r\n<p>However clumsy it may have been, did JAPARCHI participants appreciate my taking up the challenge? I dread asking what they thought.<\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/nichibun_nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/img-700x401.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"516\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-826\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/nichibun_nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/img-700x401.jpg 700w, https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/nichibun_nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/img-1024x587.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/nichibun_nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/img-768x440.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/nichibun_nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/img-1536x880.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/nichibun_nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/img-245x140.jpg 245w, https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/nichibun_nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/img-490x281.jpg 490w, https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/nichibun_nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/img-1100x630.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/nichibun_nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/img.jpg 1885w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":830,"template":"","message_category":[23],"class_list":["post-832","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\/832","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\/830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"message_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message_category?post=832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}