{"id":122,"date":"1989-08-05T12:12:02","date_gmt":"1989-08-05T17:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/japan\/?p=122"},"modified":"2019-08-25T18:16:36","modified_gmt":"2019-08-25T23:16:36","slug":"19890805","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/japan\/%e6%97%a5%e8%a8%98\/19890805\/","title":{"rendered":"\u5e73\u62101\u5e748\u67085\u65e5 (\u571f)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"dateline\">Dateline: Saturday August 5, 1989<\/h2>\n<p><img align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/japan\/wp-content\/uploads\/19890805_receiptDictionaries.jpg\" alt=\"receipt\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"bod\">\n<div class=\"icon\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Exchange Traveller&#8217;s Checks: $100=\u00a513591<br \/>\nThe rate is better than it was earlier this week.<\/li>\n<li>Check out of the Keio Plaza Hotel<\/li>\n<li>Shopping with Murakami-sensei in Shinjuku.<\/li>\n<li>Flight from Tokyo to Oita.<\/li>\n<li>Dinner on the way into Beppu.<\/li>\n<li>Meet the Tonai&#8217;s and spend the night at Tonai-sensei&#8217;s house.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- End div.bod --><\/p>\n<div class=\"daybook\">\n<h3>Accounts<\/h3>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"money\">\u00a52880<\/td>\n<td>Takahashi&#8217;s Pocket Romanized English-Japanese Dictionary<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"money\">\u00a5670<\/td>\n<td>Martin&#8217;s Pocket Dictionary<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"money\">\u00a51800<\/td>\n<td>Karuta Cards<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"money\">\u00a554<\/td>\n<td>tax<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"money\">\u00a52550<\/td>\n<td>lunch<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"money\">\u00a5400<\/td>\n<td>postage: 5 stamps @ \u00a580<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"money\">\u00a5950<\/td>\n<td>dinner<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"money\">\u00a59304<\/td>\n<td>Total<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- End div.daybook --><\/p>\n<h3>Tokyo: Shopping in Shinjuku<\/h3>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/japan\/wp-content\/uploads\/19890805_books.jpg\" alt=\"dictionaries and karuta cards\"><br \/>\nBefore leaving Tokyo, we go shopping in Shinjuku with Murakami-sensei. We have lunch at a restaurant in Isetan department store, then head over to Kinokuniya bookstore, where I buy two dictionaries and a pack of <i>karuta<\/i> cards so that JQS can practice his hiragana.<\/p>\n<p class=\"cont\">\nPerhaps Murakami-sensei urged me to buy the more expensive Takahashi dictionary because the Japanese words were written in kanji as well as romaji. However, it was not a dictionary I used much or needed. The school had plenty of English-Japanese and Japanese-English dictionaries I could have used at work. I think it was probably a dictionary more useful to her; I could look up a word in English and she could see the Japanese for it, written in Japanese script.<\/p>\n<p class=\"cont\">\nMartin&#8217;s was much more useful choice for me as a beginner. And it was small enough that I carried it everywhere. I still use it in 2019&#8230;although I rely mostly on the Mac iOS built-in Dictionary.<\/p>\n<h3>Related: About Kinokuniya<\/h3>\n<p>In 2019, even Oita-shi has a Kinokuniya. And so does Austin! But in 1989 it was one of the wonders of the big city.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Kinokuniya&#8217;s South Shinjuku Store is located about an 8-minute walk from the New South Exit of JR Shinjuku Station. It is across from the Takashimaya Square building.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul><!-- 2019-08-20 --><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.japantravel.com\/tokyo\/kinokuniya-books-south-shinjuku\/12908\">Review&#8211;Japan Travel: Kinokuniya<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kinokuniya.co.jp\/c\/store\/Seibu-Shibuya-Store\/\">Kinokuniya Seibu Shibuya Store Website<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/usa.kinokuniya.com\/stores-kinokuniya-austin\">Kinokuniya: Austin, TX<\/a><br \/>\nWho would have thought that 30 years later, we&#8217;d have our Austi would have it&#8217;s very own Kinokuniya!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>En Route: From Tokyo to Beppu<\/h3>\n<p><img class=\"alignright\" width=\"15%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/japan\/wp-content\/uploads\/19890805_JAL.jpg\" alt=\"JAL boarding pass\"><br \/>\nOn the plane flight from Haneda to Oita, I hope that I will see Fuji-san, but it is obscured by clouds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"cont\">We arrive at Oita airport I can hardly wait to see our new home, but first we stop at a restaurant for dinner. I thought we&#8217;d finally see our apartment and have a chance to get settled. I&#8217;ve been very anxious to see where we&#8217;re to spend the next two years, what our &#8220;2 rooms, a kitchen, and a bath&#8221; is like. But Murakami-sensei hands us over to the charge of another English teacher, Tonai-sensei and we are to spend the night at his house, only a maddeningly few blocks from our school and our apartment.<\/p>\n<h3>Beppu: First Impression<\/h3>\n<p>We drive into Beppu at twilight. A mist hangs on the mountains. The rice fields and gardens seem like a scene from a picture book. We meet Mrs. Tonai, who speaks no English, and runs in and out of the kitchen offering us Japanese pears (which are round and not pear-shaped) and other treats. We all make a feeble attempt at polite conversation before getting ready for bed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"cont\"> Before going to bed, Tonai-sensei encourages me to use his bath, which is a hot springs bath. I&#8217;m too tired for the pride in his voice to register on my consciousness. Taking a hot springs bath (I learn over the next few months) is indeed one of the wonders of living in Beppu and having a spring-fed <i>ofuro<\/i> in one&#8217;s house is special indeed. He can&#8217;t explain this. Or maybe he doesn&#8217;t want to contradict a guest and a foreigner. Instead, to his obvious disappointment, I opt for a quick shower. Exhausted with the struggle of trying to interact with so many people I&#8217;ve just met and with whom I can barely communicate, I just want to get into bed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"cont\"><img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/japan\/wp-content\/uploads\/19890805_tokonoma.jpg\" alt=\"Our room at the Tonai's house.\"> We climb the steep Japanese stairs (more like a step-ladder than a staircase) to our room on the second floor. It has been laid out beautifully by Mrs. Tonai, a scroll and a vase of Chinese lanterns in the <i>tokonoma<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"cont\">A wind is blowing from the south. I am glad that I&#8217;m used to a futon and sleeping with my window open. (Tonai-sensei reassured me that it was safe to leave the windows open at night.)  The noise of the cicadas awakens me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m tired and I just want to go home&#8230;wherever that is.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1680,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions\/1680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}