戦後その風景。死

• 精神 [せいしん] /mind/soul/heart/spirit/intention/
• 封切り [ふうきり] /premiere/first showing/release (film) (vs)/
• 井戸 [いど] /water well/
• 題名 [だいめい] /title/
• 記憶 [きおく] /memory (vs)/recollection/remembrance/
• 救い出す [すくいだす] /to rescue/to free/
• 主なる [おもなる] /main/principal/important/
• 筋 [すじ] /muscle/string/line/stripe/plot/plan/sinew/
• 労力 [ろうりょく] /labour/effort/toil/trouble/
• 知恵 [ちえ] /wisdom/wit/sagacity/sense/intelligence/advice/
• 費やす [ついやす] /to spend/to devote/to waste/
• 感動 [かんどう] /being deeply moved emotionally (vs)/excitement/impression/deep emotion/
• 実話 [じつわ] /true story/
• 記録 [きろく] /record (vs)/minutes/document/
• 手法 [しゅほう] /technique/
• 新鮮 [しんせん] /fresh (an)/
• Summary: I remember the release of the American film "The Well", it must have been back in 1950 I think. A woman fell into a well by accident, and many people took great efforts to try to get her out of them throughout the night but I was really moved by (what was reflected of the American society in) the main point of the plot which was that it wasn't because she was famous but because she was a living person that everyone spent their time and money and wisdom. The real story that the movie was based on and the style of the (documentary?) film was also at that time fresh.
• 理想 [りそう] /ideal/
• 明らか [あきらか] /obvious/evident/clear/plain/
• 戦時 [せんじ] /war time/
• 玉砕 [ぎょくさい] /honourable defeat (vs)/honourable death/
• 集団自決 [しゅうだんじけつ] /at time of war, suicide/
• 報道 [ほうどう] /information/report/
• 近所 [きんじょ] /neighbourhood/
• 焼け跡 [やけあと] /scorch marks, burns/
• 転がる [ころがる] /to roll/to tumble/
• 生命 [せいめい] /life/existence/
• 帰属 [きぞく] /belonging to/
• 敗戦 [はいせん] /defeat/losing a war (vs)/
• 境 [さかい] /border/boundary/
• もろもろの /various/
• 価値観 [かちかん] /values/
• 変動 [へんどう] /change (vs)/fluctuation/
• Summary: When I think about it now, more than the reality of American society that was a single ideal, if you think about Hiroshima, Nagasaki, or the Vietnam war after that, it is obvious but people that spend their young years during times of war and come to accept as natural things like reports of glorious (suicidal) deaths in battle (rather than surrender) and kamikaze (or societal group suicide), for someone like me who saw the burned corpses that looked like they could roll in the ashes of my neighborhood right before my very eyes I was surprised by that way of thinking. That life does not belong to the society, it is not for some person's use but your own personal life and so important that you wouldn't trade it for anything else was (a concept) that at the border of the loss of the war one of the various changes in values that I had. (? Hard)
• 放送 [ほうそう] /broadcast/broadcasting/
• 市井 [しせい] /the street/the town/
• 無名 [むめい] /unsigned/nameless/anonymous (a-no)/anonymity/
• 生死 [せいし] /life & death/
• 美談 [びだん] /a story about an admirable (laudable) exploit/
• 扱う [あつかう] /to handle/to deal with/to treat/
• 共同体 [きょうどうたい] /cooperative body/cooperative system/community/
• 先行 [せんこう] /preceding (vs)/going first/
• 民主主義 [みんしゅしゅぎ] /democracy/
• 基本原理 [きほんげんり] /fundamental idea/basic concept/
• 観念 [かんねん] /idea (vs)/notion/conception/
• 建前 [たてまえ] /face/official stance/public position or attitude (as opposed to private thoughts)/
• Summary: (This sentence is criminally long.) Sometimes newspapers, reports, the so called mass communications treats the anonymous everyday person's life and death as a big event (?) because of a scandal, or a story about a laudable exploit. From what I remember since the war for us Japanese that do not have the human view or societal view (?) of the democratic fundamental idea that a person's existence precedes the group's or cooperative body it can be said that we started to, at some point, just on the surface start to adopt that sort of thinking.
• 運命 [うんめい] /fate/
• 帰属 [きぞく] /belonging to/
• 反動 [はんどう] /reaction/recoil/kick/
• 生命 [せいめい] /life/existence/
• 掛け替えのない [かけがえのない] /thing with no substitute/money can't buy/
• 神格化 [しんかくか] /deification/
• 群棲動物 [ぐんせいどうぶつ] /gregarious social animals/
• 必然 [ひつぜん] /inevitable/necessary/
• 偽善 [ぎぜん] /hypocrisy/
• 齎らす [もたらす] /to bring/to take/to bring about/
• 鴻毛 [こうもう]
• 軽 [かる] /Karu (u)/
• 人命 [じんめい] /(human) life/
• 地球 [ちきゅう] /the earth (a-no)/
• 美辞麗句 [びじれいく] /flowery words/rhetorical flourishes/
• 矛盾 [むじゅん] /contradiction (vs)/inconsistency/
• 抱え込む [かかえこむ] /have something as a problem/
• Summary: In reaction to what many people thought at the time of the war, that people's fate was a part of the fate of the country, it was important for us to try to perceive (fix our thinking) our personal existence as something that could not be substituted. But if you take to an extreme the absoluteness or deification of self for the social animal of humans it inevitably leads to hypocrisy. Life is not lighter than death, but life is not heavier than the earth. (uh.) While we can not understand those sorts of flowery words, we have a reality and we are faced with the problem of that contradiction we can not find a way to live or die. (? not right.)
• 暴力 [ぼうりょく] /violence/
• 衝撃 [しょうげき] /shock/crash/impact/ballistic/
• 感情 [かんじょう] /emotion(s)/feeling(s)/sentiment/
• 発言 [はつげん] /utterance/speech/proposal/
• 取り替える [とりかえる] /to exchange/to replace/
• 西洋 [せいよう] /the west/Western countries/
• 行き着く [ゆきつく] /to arrive at/to end up/
• 烈しい [はげしい] /violent/vehement/intense/furious/tempestuous/
• 一種 [いっしゅ] /a species/a kind/a variety/
• 畏敬 [いけい] /reverence/awe/respect/
• 疑問 [ぎもん] /question/problem/doubt/guess/
• Summary: When Saltol (?) died, Voltaire (?) and said the words "death is violent" I was shocked. I don't think it was something that someone emotionally says when their loved one dies. It was from the Western people that think the individual is unquestionably irreplaceable, it is natural that they lose their belief in god and come to be logical, that violence is one type of reverence that I remembered and at the same time I feel that trying to understand death in that way is a big problem.
• 感性 [かんせい] /sensitivity/sensitiveness/sense/
• 底 [そこ] /bottom/sole/
• 切り離す [きりはなす] /to detach/to decapitate/
• 老いる [おいる] /to age/to grow old/
• 散る [ちる] /to fall/to scatter (e.g. blossoms)/
• 理想 [りそう] /ideal/
• 対立 [たいりつ] /confrontation/opposition/antagonism/
• 最終 [さいしゅう] /last/final/closing/
• 同化 [どうか] /assimilation (vs)/absorption/adaptation/
• 態度 [たいど] /attitude/manner/
• 形 [かたち] /form/shape/figure/type/
• Summary: I think at the bottom of our sensitivity as Japanese is that the concept that death is natural still lives on (in our society.) For old people that can not seperate from death by using words like "to get bloated and old" understanding, saying things like falled flowers, it isn't as naturally confrontational human beings but in the end natural assimilation that we express out attitude. But in reality our society does not take on that shape.
• 移り変わり [うつりかわり] /change (e.g. season)/
• 無常 [むじょう] /uncertainty/
• 核 [かく] /nucleus/kernel/
• 農業 [のうぎょう] /agriculture/
• 過去 [かこ] /the past/bygone days/the previous/
• 明治 [めいじ] /Meiji (s,g)/
• 急激 [きゅうげき] /sudden/precipitous/radical/
• 工業 [こうぎょう] /(manufacturing) industry/
• 崩れる [くずれる] /to collapse/to crumble/
• 身動きする [みうごきする] /to stir/to move about/
• 能力 [のうりょく] /ability/faculty/
• 老人 [ろうじん] /the aged/old person/
• 人工 [じんこう] /artificial/manmade/human work/human skill/artificiality/
• 生かす [いかす] /to revive/to resuscitate/to make use of/
• 善 [ぜん] /good/goodness/right/virtue/
• 尊重 [そんちょう] /respect/esteem/regard/
• Summary: The Japan of past that was a large agricultural community that had the natural uncertainty (change) of the seasons as a nucleus, approached collapse with the rapid modernization and industrialization of the Meiji era. For example our current society that can keep alive old people artificially that can not move, open their mouths, eat or think 90 year old people can only be a society based on zen on the surface. (?) Can't we say that the meaning of death is lost (?) when one does not really respect the individual life of people? (??)
• 不老不死 [ふろうふし] /perpetual youth and longevity/
• 妙楽 [みょうらく] /strange medicines?/
• 魔術 [まじゅつ] /black magic/sorcery/
• 延長 [えんちょう] /extension (vs)/elongation/prolongation/
• 医学 [いがく] /medical science/medicine/
• 発達 [はったつ] /development (vs)/growth/
• 促す [うながす] /to urge/to press/to suggest/to demand/to stimulate/to quicken/to incite/to invite (attention to)/
• 身体 [しんたい] /the body/
• 不可避 [ふかひ] /inevitable/inescapable/unavoidable/
• 覚悟 [かくご] /resolution (vs)/resignation/readiness/preparedness/
• 消滅 [しょうめつ] /lapse (vs)/annihilation (physics)/
• 永遠 [えいえん] /eternity/perpetuity/immortality/permanence/
• 転生 [てんせい] /reincarnation/
• 極楽浄土 [ごくらくじょうど] /paradise (buddhist term)/
• 孤独 [こどく] /isolation (an)/loneliness/solitude/
• 幻想 [げんそう] /illusions/
• 迎える [むかえる] /to go out to meet/
• Summary: Death is certainly a scary thing. Everybody tries to avoid it. As indicated by strange perpetual youth medicines the hope of people is give birth to a magic that can help accelerate the pace of medical advancement. (This sounds strange to me.) The people that are prepared for the inevitability of their own death see dreams of their eternal life after the annihilation of their boadies. The people that see those dreams believe in various things, some people believe that you will meet friends and family from the previous world, or believe in reincarnation, or believe in heaven. In the end people must face death clinging to their isolated illusions. (? Strong statement, eh?)
• 一応 [いちおう] /once (at least)/in outline/
• 他人 [あだびと] /another person/unrelated person/outsider/stranger/
• 見極める [みきわめる] /to see through/to probe/to make sure of/
• 故 [ゆえ] /reason/cause/circumstances/
• 恰も [あたかも] /as if/as it were/
• 亡き者 [なきもの] /dead person/
• 如く [ごとく] /like/as/
• 衛生 [えいせい] /health/hygiene/sanitation/medical/
• 処理 [しょり] /processing (vs)/dealing with/treatment/disposition/disposal/
• 亡き者 [なきもの] /dead person/
• Summary: However, death is a personal and at the same time, a societal thing. If one can prepare tentatively for one's own death they are still not done; they still have to think about about the death of other people. Rather it is also said that only at the time that someone else dies that we are able to look at our own death in depth. It is because nobody can speak about the experience of their own death. Rather just for that reason we pretend that we do not see our own death. It is as if death is a dead body and we try to deal with its hygiene. (? huh.)
• 見失う [みうしなう] /to lose sight of/to miss/
• 保育園 [ほいくえん] /nursery school/day nursery/
• 飼う [かう] /to keep/to raise/to feed/
• 死体 [したい] /corpse/
• 残酷 [ざんこく] /cruelty (an)/harshness/
• 密かに [ひそかに] /in secret/secretly/
• 埋める [うめる] /to bury/to fill up/to fill (a seat, a vacant position)/
• 童話 [どうわ] /fairy tale/
• 結末 [けつまつ] /end/conclusion/
• しばしば /often/again and again/
• 再話
• おろか /not to mention/
• 昆虫 [こんちゅう] /insect/bug/
• 滅多 [めった] /thoughtless (an)(uk)/reckless/seldom (neg v)/
• 偶に [たまに] /occasionally/
• 清潔 [せいけつ] /clean (an)/
• 専門家 [せんもんか] /specialist/
• 華やか [はなやか] /gay (an)/showy/florid/brilliant/
• 事務的 [じむてき] /businesslike/practical/
• 処理 [しょり] /processing (vs)/dealing with/treatment/disposition/disposal/
• We are losing sight of death. For example, when small animals kept at a nursery schools and the like die, the corpses are buried somewhere in secret because we say that it is cruel to show the body to the children. Or the ending of Grim's fairy tales are always (made into, changes into??) happy endings. Kids raised in the city don't have a chance to experience the death of insects, not to mention people. The death that we encounter every once in a while, of a grey haired person in a clean hospital, that kind of death quickly is treated showily (gaudily?) in a business-like manner.
• 他方 [たほう] /another side/different direction/(on) the other hand/
• 劇画 [げきが] /A comic with a realistic narrative/
• 猥褻 [わいせつ] /obscenity/
• 生々しい [なまなましい] /lively/green/fresh/raw/
• 溢れる [あふれる] /to flood/to overflow/to brim over/
• おおいかくす /Cover/conceal/mask (a fact)/
• 想像 [そうぞう] /imagination (vs)/guess/
• あらわ /open/
• 盾 [たて] /shield/buckler/escutcheon/pretext/
• 両面 [りょうめん] /both sides/two sides/
• 中断 [ちゅうだん] /interruption (vs)/suspension/break/
• 感覚 [かんかく] /sense/sensation/
• 刺激 [しげき] /stimulus (vs)/impetus/incentive/excitement/irritation/encouragement/motivation/motive/
• 成り下がる [なりさがる] /to be degraded/to come down in the world/
• Summary: But on the other hand in reality we are flooded by the freshness of obscene images of the death that is not death in manga and movies. Hiding death in the real world and being open about death in the imaginary world (tv, movies) are two sides of the same shield (coin). I means that we are not looking at which community our personal death should belong to in the future. (?) Death is not a single interruption, a nonsensical gag, but has degraded into a stimulation of the senses.
• 問う [とう] /to ask/to question/to charge (i.e. with a crime)/to accuse/without regard to (neg)/
• 受容 [じゅよう] /reception (vs)/
• 全う [まっとう] /accomplish (vs)/fulfill/complete/preserve (life)/proper (an)/respectable/
• 有機体 [ゆうきたい] /organism/organic matter/
• 覚悟 [かくご] /resolution (vs)/resignation/readiness/preparedness/
• 同時代 [どうじだい] /the same age/same period/
• 成立 [せいりつ] /coming into existence/arrangements (vs)/establishment/completion/
• 養分 [ようぶん] /nutrition/
• 再生 [さいせい] /playback (vs)/regeneration/resuscitation/return to life/rebirth/reincarnation/narrow escape/reclamation/regrowth/
• 契機 [けいき] /opportunity/chance/
• 方向 [ほうこう] /direction/course/way/
• 全体主義 [ぜんたいしゅぎ] /totalitarianism/
• 見通す [みとおす] /to see without obstruction/to forecast/to predict/
• 果たす [はたす] /to accomplish/to fulfill/to carry out/to achieve/
• 可能 [かのう] /possible (an)/practicable/feasible/
• 通る [とおる] /to pass (by)/to go through/to walk along/to pass exams/
• Summary: It is impossible to not question death but question life, or reject death and live a complete life. It isn't like that is the only thing within the soul of a person, it is also something that is part of the culture of living organisms. When people accept their isolation at the same time the consensus they reach about death, the fear of which they can not express with natural language, the concept of supporting each other comes into existence. I would like to believe that like fallen leaves and the bodies of animals become nutrition for this earth, the death of individuals become an opportunity for the reincarnation of other people but is it possible for totalitarianism or religion to achieve this kind of period? (??) But it is clear that there is no way to hide from this path. (??)