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Shinpachi · Mar 21, 2023

JOVE23 said:
Now I'm curious, how easy is it for you to read this? It's seijitai but it might be simpler because it's from a graph and not long literature.

Please don't actually translate it, I'm just curious if it makes sense to you.

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No problem for me to read at all but, certainly, I wonder how it would be for my son.
If he should be interestd, I would teach him like "This word 瓩 is not used today but means kilo-grams."

Shinpachi · Mar 21, 2023

Shinpachi said:
No problem for me to read at all but, certainly, I wonder how it would be for my son.
If he should be interestd, I would teach him like "This word 瓩 is not used today but means kilo-grams."

Japanese younger guys still learn the ancient Chinese literature at high-school like I did decades ago.
There would be no problem for them to read either.

Source: RADWIMPS野田洋次郎「漢文の授業って本当に意味がないと思う。前時代的」

Frog · Mar 22, 2023

Shinpachi · Mar 22, 2023

Commemorating Kazuho Hieda with his old illustration works -

for "Sleeping and dreaming" in 1953

for "Orange" in 1958

Wurger · Mar 23, 2023

Frog · Mar 23, 2023

Shinpachi · Mar 23, 2023

Shinpachi said:
From 1966 to 1968 he was engaged in reproducing the mural paintings of the main hall of Horyuji Temple.

Hieda working on reproducing the 7th mural painting as a member of the project.
Takashi Asada from Musashino Art University (front) and Kazuho Hieda (back) circa 1967

Reproduced painting

第7号壁　聖観音菩薩像

先刻、やっと7号壁が完成して、引渡したばかりである。思えば壁画に明け壁画に暮れたこの一年間であった。そもそも一昨年秋、法隆寺金堂壁画再現模写に参加することにきまった時以来の、あのいいようのない重圧感から、今やっと解放された。急に春めいた陽の...

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cammerjeff · Mar 23, 2023

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Wurger · Mar 23, 2023

manta22 · Mar 23, 2023

Shinpachi said:
Hieda working on reproducing the 7th mural painting as a member of the project.
Takashi Asada from Musashino Art University (front) and Kazuho Hieda (back) circa 1967
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Reproduced painting
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第7号壁　聖観音菩薩像

先刻、やっと7号壁が完成して、引渡したばかりである。思えば壁画に明け壁画に暮れたこの一年間であった。そもそも一昨年秋、法隆寺金堂壁画再現模写に参加することにきまった時以来の、あのいいようのない重圧感から、今やっと解放された。急に春めいた陽の...

kingei.org

Thank you, I had no idea that he had done work such as this. My mother was fortunate to have such a teacher!

Shinpachi · Mar 24, 2023

manta22 said:
Thank you, I had no idea that he had done work such as this. My mother was fortunate to have such a teacher!

He would have been fortunate to meet your family too.

Kazuho Hieda was survived by his two daughters Yuki and Makoto.

Source: 日本画家の稗田一穂さん死去 100歳文化功労者 | 毎日新聞

Frog · Mar 24, 2023

Shinpachi · Mar 25, 2023

Construction technologies for IJN during ww2.

Construction machines

Komatu Model 1 IJN's first bulldozer

Shelters for aircraft and torpedos

Source: Records of IJN Engineers (1972)

Wurger · Mar 25, 2023

Snautzer01 · Mar 25, 2023

Shinpachi said:
IJA did not clarify data and Kawasaki only confirms the fact as a maker. General aviation records tell that there was a 15 hour non-stop flight between Japan and Taiwan in 1929.

Japanese cluster bomb Kurai(空雷).
I have not heard the Kurai but Mk3 bomb for IJN or Ta-bomb for IJA.

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Source: Japanese Air Corps during the War(1969)

Japanese Zeros drop phosphorus bombs over B-24s

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cammerjeff · Mar 25, 2023

Just to keep my Trucks towing 1930's A/C postings going

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manta22 · Mar 25, 2023

Shinpachi said:
Construction technologies for IJN during ww2.

Construction machines
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Komatu Model 1 IJN's first bulldozer
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Shelters for aircraft and torpedos
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Source: Records of IJN Engineers (1972)

Your photos of the aircraft shelters are interesting to me because on a Cub Scout hike out of Grant Heights in Narimasu, we discovered a few of those shelters. Grant Heights was an American housing area that was built on a previous Japanese airfield. Our main street had been its runway.

Shinpachi · Mar 26, 2023

manta22 said:
Your photos of the aircraft shelters are interesting to me because on a Cub Scout hike out of Grant Heights in Narimasu, we discovered a few of those shelters. Grant Heights was an American housing area that was built on a previous Japanese airfield. Our main street had been its runway.

Interesting testimony, Neil.

Narimasu Airfield. Red circle shows one of 25 shelters.