awa life
A monthly newsletter for international residents of Tokushima, produced
by TOPIA, the Tokushima Prefectural International Exchange Association.

"TOPPY"
September 2004 No. 171

kamiyama artist in residencethe Kamiyama Artist In Residence starts it's sixth year, withthree participants invited to stay in Kamiyama for forty
days and interact with the mountain community while creating art. This year's welcome party will be held on October 1, with a variety of activities throughout the residency
period, including an International cooking night on October
16 and an open studio day on October 23, culminating in thedisplay of participating artists works on November 10 - 14,with an artists' symposium on the November 13. For more details, see the Kamiyama Artist in Residence Schedule online, at
http:// www.town.kamiyama.lg. jp/kair_fs.html

Norbert Francis
Attard was born in Malta

in 1951. He graduated in Architecture from the Universityof Malta in 1977 and practiced
his profession until 1996.
Turning to installation art in
1997, he discovered a latentdramatic obsession with space
and its interpretation which
frequently borders on duality,

dichotomy, ambivalence andirony. Indeed, his installations
are advocates of faith and precursors of doubt, the offspringof extremes and of the artist’s
unique language formed within
the few square miles of Gozo
Island. His work embraces thetonality of wider influences
and textures which range
from the ancient and modern,man-made and raw, earth andsteel, painting, film and digital media, honed with an eyefor detail and a passion for
discipline. He is a committee
member of the Malta Council
for Culture and the Arts (2002)
and director of GOZOcontemporary (2001), an art space offering self-directed residencies
on the island of Gozo where
he lives and has his studio.
Since 1998 his works havebeen shown at the 48th Venice
Biennale, Italy; Edinburgh International Arts Festival, Scotland; 2nd Liverpool Biennale
England; 8th Havana Biennale,Cuba; including several instal-

submitted

lations and collective international shows in Austria, Spain,
Germany, Greece, South Korea, Australia and Taiwan. Several books on his work, including his most recent I See Red
Everywhere (2002) and 2000
& Four Olympics (2004) havebeen published. He will arrivein Kamiyama on October 5th.

Charlotte
McGowan-Grifﬁn wasborn in London, England. She
attended the Fine Art degree
course at Goldsmith's College,
London, and graduated in
1997. Her recent work has taken the form of delicately crafted paper cutouts of varying
scale, sometimes also exploiting their projected image. She
recurrently employs the motifof the supernatural, drawing
on a generic liturgy from fai-Kamiyama AIR Proﬁles... con't on page 9

contents
Kamiyama Artist in Residence Program - 1 ... Pictures from Awa Odori - 3
Uncovering Forgotten Japan - 4 ... Teru Teru Bozu - 5
Look What the Typhoon Blew in - 6 ... Happy Rafters - 7
Tastes of Awa - 8 ... Japanese in the News - 9 ... 6.1 Metres of Mountain - 10
Japanese Lesson - 11 Memoranda - 12~15
TV Movie Guide - 15 ... Cinema Guide - 16from the editorsas I write this, the skies are clear, but
the satelite picture tells us that typhoon
number 16 is already headed our way.
With this in mind, Junko Kimura has
written a sure prescription for getting rid of thebad weather. See her story about teru teru
bozu on page 5. If your attempts at keeping
the rain away fail, and you ﬁnd yourself in the
middle of a full-ﬂedged typhoon, wondering if
it's worth even showing up for work at all, you
might ﬁnd the Japanese vocabulary words listed on page 9 handy. When I was a kid growing
up in Canada, school was sometimes cancelled
if it snowed so hard that the roads couldn't be
cleared. Kids in Tokushima don't have this tolook forward to, but when a typhoon comes totown, you can bet they are glued to the radio,
waiting for that bofu keiho letting them know
it's OK to stay home.
Love, Claire

awa life

is a monthly publication of the Tokushima Prefectural International Exchange Association (TOPIA)

Editors:
Claire Kinder
Martin O'Brien
Contributors This Month:
Junko Kimura, Claire Kinder,
Martin O'Brien, Sean Ramsay,
Elizabeth Tracey, Don Weiss,
Takako Yamada

awa life welcomes announcements, articles,

opinions, letters, art and photographs. Please
send contributions to the editors at TOPIA. You
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iguess my training is ﬁnally over and its time
to start working. For me, that means the
chance to co-edit Awa Life with my fellow
CIR Claire Kinder. There are many people
in this prefecture from a variety of different
countries that perform a myriad of different
jobs. The one thing we all have in common isthat we are all foreigners living in Tokushima.
This newsletter provides an important service
in terms of informing people of events andactivities that might otherwise pass them by.
Language barriers and other factors can often
prevent foreigners from gaining an in-depth
understanding of their surroundings. Hopefully
Awa Life goes some way to address this. In myrole as co-editor I wish to continue the goodwork and hopefully bring forth more interestingarticles about life in Tokushima prefecture.
Peace, Martin

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pics from awa odori 2004

This year's Awa Odori wasa raging success, withbeautiful weather and a hugeturnout of more than threehundred people for TOPIA's
international dancing group,
Arasowaren on August 13.
Here are a few shots from ournight on the town!

uncovering forgotten japantby sean ramsay

hat old house?, said
For me it was an array of
priceless ideas and materiUnemoto-san with disals.
belief, You want to live
I'm also now using
there?!
winches and pulleys in my
It had taken a bit to delamps, allowing the user totermine the owner. When I
move them up and down.
asked my friend Tani-san, heThis was inspired by old
didn't even know the placewire systems used by local
existed - it was so overhouses to haul things up
grown and far enough fromand down the mountains.
the road - and Tani-san had
In every piece of thislived in this same neighborexhibition I've included
hood over 40 years.
something found here,"Well, is it haunted?" I had
combining it with images
to ask. Its an unfortunateof fog drifting throughlocal trend to commit suicide
the valley, rivers twistingin somebody else's empty
through rocks, or embers
house, forever cursing theglowing in my fireplace,place.
making each lamp one of a
Understanding my concern,kind.
he laughed. "No."So seeing I was serious, `Hoist' Wood, Paper, Rope, Iron, Stone 205cm So now, when old Unemoto-san visits, he brings his
Unemoto-san skeptichildren. We eat roasted
cally shrugged and said I
The list is long, but includes
could do what I wanted with replacing almost the whole ﬁsh, drink sake, and watch thethe place. It was his grand- floor, rebuilding the large mountains. I explain my latfather's mountain farmhouse front overhang, removing the est art piece, he explains why(Unemoto himself is 68) and collapsed ceilings, fixing 24 things are built the way they
it'd been abandoned about 25 shoji doors, installing water are in the house. Old knowlyears. Crazy gaijin, I'm sure and electric lines, and dealing edge like his will be more or
he thought, he'll be gone in a with 25 years of overgrowth less gone in a generation, so
which was swallowing the its best to take what you canweek.
now. Maybe he still thinks I'm
I had already spent over a house.
year in the Iya Vally as an
Along the way I got a deeper a bit strange to live here, but
Artist-in-Residence and liked understanding of old mountain I can tell he's happy I rescuedt h e a t m o s p h e r e e n o u g h life -the place was like an his house. And if there are
to want to stay: beautiful archeological site. Old tools, any old ghosts in here, I think
mountains, plentiful materials, a n c i e n t f a r m m a c h i n e r y, they're happy too.
clean and tranquil, and people antique furniture, calendars
who welcomed me without from the 70s still on the walls.
reservations. A ideal place to I used traditional carpentry S e a n R a m s a y i s a l a m p a r t i s t
do artwork.
methods to rebuild the place, l i v i n g i n H i g a s h i I y a , w e s t e r nTokushima. His current exhibition,
Last year I began reforming using many of the tools I "Uncovered", will be held fromthe house, a feat which has found in the barn.
Sept 18 - Oct 17. See the Event
consumed my life, and ended
It was all this and more which Guide for details, or contact Sean atup being the inspiration for my I've plugged into my new art- sprsean@docomo.ne.jp
latest exhibition: "Uncovered".
work. Twisted metal spikes,
ショーン・ラムジーは東祖谷に住ん
The place was an utter wreck rolls of straw rope, rusted steel でいるランプ・アーティストであり、-understandable why Unemoto water pipes, hunks of aged 9 月 18 日 ～ 10 月 17 日 に Uncovered
thought I was nuts. The house hardwood. Most people would 展を行います。詳しくイベントガイ
was returning to the earth. have hauled it all to the dump. ド、又は sprsean@docomo.ne.jp まで。

teru teru bozu

by junko kimurahave you ever found
any interesting objects when you arewalking down thestreet in Japan? If you wereJapanese, you might not feellike they are interesting or
weird since they are a partof your daily life. However, if
you are new to Japan, you
might think they’re strange,
since you don’t see them inyour home country. Whenever I found any interesting
objects or signs while living
overseas, I always asked local people to find out what
they were for.
My colleague asked me tofind and write some little
things that only Japanesepeople know about. Just theother day, my friend and I
were talking about a Japanese
movie that we saw. She has
been in Japan for 5 years andknows loads of things about
Japan. However, there was
one thing in the movie thatshe didn’t know about. It was
something that I used to dowhile in elementary school (Iam going to write about thisin Awa Life sometime soon).
This made me realise there
are many traditional aspectsof Japanese culture that people wouldn’t be familiar with
unless they grew up in Japan.
Teru teru bozu is a weather doll that has been aroundfor many years. It is said
that the origin is the Chinesesaochin yan doll. This is agirl doll made of paper anddressed in a red and green
kimono with a broom madefrom an ear of rice. This doll
was hung from the eaves andit was said to bring a blue sky
by brushing away the clouds

let us have a sunny day
tomorrow”. I would guessthat all Japanese kids
make it when they are inkindergarten or elementary
school. I have been asking
my friends or people whohave kids if they or theirkids have ever made one.
Their answer is always“Yes”. When I made thisone for Awa Life, I felt like
I was a kid again.

てるてるぼうず、てるぼうず、How to construct yourown teru teru bozu

あしたてんきにしておくれwith the broom. It seems that
this custom came to Japan andwas spread to people as teru
teru bozu. A long time ago,
the weather affected life much
more than now, since mostpeople were farmers. Whenpeople wished for ﬁne weather,
they hung a white teru teru
bozu. They also believed that
if the head hung upside down,
it would rain. They say thatwhen your wish comes true,
you should draw a face on theteru teru bozu. However, wetend to draw the face before
we hang it under the eaves
nowadays. Also some people
used to ﬂoat teru teru bozu
and sake together in the riverafter their wish came true.
When I was in elementary
school, we always made teru
teru bozu the day before
school sport day or some otheroutdoor event. My friends andI used to tell each other tomake one for sports day after
we got home. When I madeit, I sometimes used to say,
“Teru teru bozu-san, please

you need:
5 pieces of tissue
stringmagic marker

Make three pieces of tissue
into a ball and wrap the ballin the remaining two piecesof tissue. Tie the string tohold the ball inside the tissue, so it's shaped like a headand body. Draw a face on thehead, and hang the teru teru
bozu in your window or underthe eaves of your house. Try
taping the string to teru teru
bozu's head so he doesn't
hang upside-down. If you do itright, it won't rain tomorrow!
Good Luck!

look what the typhoon blew inhello everybody! To
those who have not
yet had the pleasure (if that's theright word) of meetingme already, I would liketo say a big hajimemashite, dozo yoroshiku
o negai-shimas u . My
name is Martin O`Brienand I am replacing Shaun
Price as Coordinator ofInternational Relations(CIR) and editor of Awa
Life. I am 23 years old, an
age that many of my colleagues have informed meis quite young. I guess I
am somewhat young but
bear in mind I will be 24
in September-that's theMartin O'Brien: ready, willing, and able
25th of September by the way
if any of you want to splash reasons for wanting to workout for a couple of drinks - in the country stem from myundergraduate years in Dublin
Cheers!
I am originally from the City University where I chosecounty of Clare in the fair to study Japanese along withcountry of Ireland. County marketing. In addition to
Clare is a maritime county that Japanese and marketing I am
constitutes a peninsula located also interested in education
between the Atlantic ocean and teaching. I had originallyand the Shannon estuary. considered applying to beIn some ways the county is come an English teacher, butsimilar to Shikoku, as it is I felt working as a CIR would
somewhat peripheral in regard beneﬁt my Japanese more, soto the rest of the country. that's the road I took. Prior to
Like Shikoku the county also this position, I completed a
has its fair share of natural one year masters in E-learnb e a u t y w i t h m a n y s a n d y ing, Design and Development
beaches, sheltered bays, and at the University of Limerick.
This is not my first time in
antiquities. The two most
famous tourist attractions Japan. In my third year as an
i n C o. C l a re a re B u n ra tty undergraduate I studied for aCastle and the Cliffs of Moher. year as an exchange student
Bunratty Castle is a carefully in Toyo University in Tokyo. I
preserved medieval castle had a fantastic year in Tokyo
while the Cliffs of Moher are and was keen to return to rebasically really big cliffs. So if turn to Japan to work after myyour travels ever take you my tenure as an exchange stuhome county, check out the dent. I spent a few days in Tokyo before coming to Tokushicliffs.
My interest in Japan and my ma this July, and everythingby martin o'brien

was familiar as I had donesome part-time teaching
work in Shinjuku when I
was an exchange student.
That sense of securi tychanged somewhat when
I arrived in Tokushima andfaced into the stiﬂing heat
which I found very disconcerting. After two years of
being away from Japan,
living in the temperate climate of Ireland I guess I
was very much a newbie
once again. Nevertheless,I feel I have managed toadjust to my new environment fairly well (after I
managed to properly set
the aircon) and I am very
excited about checking out
all that Tokushima prefecture
has to offer.
As many of you already know
m ov i n g t o a n e w c o u n t r y
can pose any number ofdifficulties. However coming
to Tokushima has personallybeen relatively painless dueto the sterling efforts of mycolleagues at the Prefectural
Ofﬁce and at TOPIA. I in turnlook forward to assisting anyof you out there should theneed arise.
In the meantime, I will morethan likely bump into manyo f yo u i n To k u s h i m a C i ty
in various capacities. I am
interested in soccer (watching
more than playing) so I intend
to catch a few of Otsuka FC(Vortis Tokushima)`s games.
If anyone has a similar interest
please get in contact so we
can get involved in theirefforts to reach the J-league.
Until then, take it easy andenjoy Tokushima.

happy rafterspby elizabeth tracey

addle, paddle,
turned around to spot thepaddle!
Getother boats coming down.
DOWN!!
We saw the following raft
As our guidesoar into the air, ﬂip over,shouted these instrucspewing its occupants
tions at us, all I could
out in all directions, besee was the vertical wallfore landing upside downof whitewater looming
somewhere downstream,over our suddenly tinyminus its crew. As saftey
raft. Gripping the safetyboat on this wave, we imrope tightly, and breathmediatley started to picking hard, I prayed thatup the bedraggled crew
we wouldn`t ﬂip.
members as the current
This particular wall ofbrought them closer towhitewater was just one
our boat. Clinging to theof many that our boat
saftey rope of our boat,
overcame that hot July
they looked somewhat
day. 21 of us had madesoggy and shocked at beour way to Otoyo-cho,
ing so rudley ejected fromjust over the border intheir vessel, but were stillneighbouring Kochi-ken, who says you have to stay in the boat to have fun? laughing at the sheer exready to challenge andcitement of it all.
my bagels provided by the
be challenged by the huge
The final rapid of the day
rafting company, we wererapids coursing through thewas small enough for theback in the boats for the afKoboke gorge.
more adventurous among us
ternoon session. Our guideBy 10am, our company had
to get out and swim down.
informed us that this part ofassembled and donned ourBeing the fool that I am, I
the river had just become
helmets, wesuits and life
decided I hadn`t had quite
commercially raftable again,vests, and were raring to go.
enough adventure on t h e
as the previous week`s tyAfter acclimatising to the wabig rapids, and had room forphoon had made the waterter by way of a Tarzan rope
one more thrill. Unfortunattoo high to safely bring inexswing (not for the faint ofley, I jumped out just a little
perienced clients down. This
heart!), we had a quick lestoo late, and was promptly
meant, he assured us, thatson in paddle technique andsucked under our boat as it
we`d be in for some truly
safety, before dividing into
went down the rapid. Maybe
massive rapids. Sensational!
teams, and climbing aboard
I should've just stayed in the
As my group came close to
our vessels. My team had
boat?!
each set of rapids, we foundthe smallest raft. That didn`t
The day ended at 4pm atthat our small raft was somedo anything to assure the
Kawaguchi, Yamashiro-cho.
how always at the front of
more nervous rafters, but it
We had paddled an amazing
the queue. This meant weturned out to be a blessing in
14km, through some amazdidn`t have the luxury of
disguise.
ing scenery, and down somewatching another boat having
We set off at a leisurley
truly awesome rapids. Absoa bash ﬁrst and learning frompace, and enjoyed taking inlutely exhausted, somewhat
their mistakes. I`m proud
the scenery and the warmthsunburned, but on a total highto say my team managedof the sun over our heads.
from such an adventure, talkto manouvere all the rapids
The river was calm enoughon the bus back to the rafting
without capsizing once! Unthat we could get out andcompany base turned to when
fortunately, that`s more than
float on our backs down thewe could do it all again. We`ll
I can say for the other, larger,
river, marvelling at the peace
be back soon, maybe we`llvessels. After one particuland quiet of it all.
see you on the rapids!
alry monster-like wave, we
After a quick lunch of yum-tastes of awa - sushi, part 1

if you're new to Japan,
you probably think you've
had sushi. Maybe you
have, but probably you've
only had a pale imitation ofwhat many of your students(if you're a teacher) will tell
you is their favorite food.
It's also what most of yourneighbors will tell you is theirfavorite food, because it's
Japan's favorite food. Soon,
when you've had the realthing, it will probably be yourfavorite food too (after pizza
and chocolate).

Sushi Rice
4 cups rice, washed
1 sheet of konbu, about 10 cm. square
3 Tablespoons of vinegar
3 Tablespoons of sugar
2 teaspoons of salt
a pinch MSG (usually known in Japanby the brand name Ajinomoto) (Thisis optional, though my wife is the only
Japanese I know who doesn't use it.)Put the rice and konbu in a rice cooker
or pot. Add about 10% more water thannormal. Cook the rice normally, but let
it sit in the pot or rice cooker, with theheat off, for an extra 15 minutes.

Meanwhile, mix the vinegar, sugar, salt
and MSG thoroughly. When the rice isready, turn it out into a large wooden,
ceramic, glass or stainless steel tray and
FAN IT! As you fan the rice, gradually
pour in the vinegar mixture, blending it
into the rice with the edge of a shamoji
rice paddle. When it's thoroughly
blended, set the rice aside, covering thebowl with a damp towel.

2. Makisushi -- Sushi ricewrapped around fish and/or
vegetables and/or tofu with asheet of nori wrapped aroundthat.
3. Gunkan makisushi -Similar to nigiri but thetopping is something thatwould fall off, so a small
sheet of nori is wrappedaround the rice, making ashort, dark-green tower.
4. Temaki sushi -- coneshaped makisushi thatyou usually make yourself
from a platter of suitable
ingredients.
5. Chirashizushi (AKA

a whole fish or fish fillet.
Oshizushi is usually about 20
cm. long. (Note: if you're
an American and you justgot here, you'll get used tocentimeters soon. 20 cm = 8
inches)7. I n a r i z u s h i - - s u s h irice stuffed into a vaguely
triangular pocket of aburage-- thin-sliced, deep fried
tofu.
8. Isn't that enough?

How do you make sushi?
Let me count the ways.
1. Nigirizushi -- The
standard kind with a little
log-shaped lump of sushi rice
(more on that later) topped
by a slice of something,usually raw fish but
sometimes cooked fish, egg,
or occasionally a mini hotdog.

by don weiss

Now you're done the hard part. Now
you can make whatever kind of sushi
you like. More on THAT next month.

barazushi) -- sushi rice in abowl or on a plate, topped byﬁsh and vegetables.
6. Oshizushi -- A rectangularlog-shaped mass of sushi ricewith the topping pressed into
the top. Often the topping is

A c t u a l l y, t h e o r i g i n a lform of sushi isn't on thislist since it's one of many
relatively rare, mostly
regional variations on thetheme. Well, no, it isn't avariation, it's the theme,
isn't it? So what is it? It's
narezushi, found not onlyin Japan but in Korea andSoutheast Asia as well. Fishis salted, then de-salted,
then packed in rice andallowed to "mature" for anumber of months. When
it's sufficiently ripe, the riceis thrown away and the fish
is eaten. How common is
it? I've lived in Japan close
to ten years. I saw someonce. You think fermented
fish aged is rice is strange?
How about fermented sea
cucumber guts? (Konowata
in Japanese.)
Sushis #1 through #7 are allbased on sushi rice, and if
the rice isn't good the ﬁsh orvegetables served with it are
totally wasted. It's relatively
easy to make. (So why is it
sometimes not very good,even in Japan, and especiallyabroad? I don't know.)

japanese in the newst

his new Japanese
language column
is dedicated to
introducing words
that come up often in
the television and radio
news, as well as in daily
conversation. In future
editions, I hope to bea little more thematic,
but this month's focus is'Intro to Current Events.'

ぎゃくたい

虐待
gyakutaiabuse
ゆ く え ふ めい

行方不明
yukue fumeigone missing
はんざいしゃ犯罪者
hanzai sha
criminal
ひ がいしゃWeather
It doesn't take long tomaster the Japanesewords for basic weather
conditions, but what if
you need to know whether "Specially priced for a reason"
it's even worth showing up discount goods found by Junko Kimura
airplane flights will usually be
to work or not??
cancelled in the case of a 暴
風 警 報 . People living in a
おおあめ
大雨
flood-prone region might get
to stay home during a 洪 水o-ame
警 報、but you won't get theheavy rain
day off for 波 浪 警 報 unless
Ifたいit ふう
feels like a typhoon
you are a ﬁsherman or maybe( 台 風 taifu), but there's noa pro surfer. Ferries also stop
spiralling cloud above you on
running during a 波浪警報 .
the weather satelite, what
you've got is a case of 大雨 .
This may or may not lead to:News
ぼうふうけいほうorThey say no news is good
news. So, most of the stuff
you see on TV is bad news.
Though you must admit, it ispretty gripping stuff.

こうずいけいほう

さつじん じ け ん

暴風警報
bofu keiho
a strong wind warning

洪水警報
kozui keiho
a ﬂood warning

殺人事件
satsujin jiken
a murder incident

or

死亡
shibo
a deathは ろうけいほう

波 浪警 報haro keiho
a high waves warning
School and work, as well as

by claire kinder

し ぼう

ぼうこう

暴行
boko
assault

被 害者higai sha
victimSports
It's not whether you win or
lose, but how you play thegame. That's what we're alltaught when we are young,but if you listen to the sports
news, all they seem to talkabout is...
ひっしょう

必勝
hisshoa certain victory
らくしょう

楽勝
rakushoan easy win
が

ぼろ勝
勝
勝ち
borogachi
to totally cream/obliterate theopponent

If you have any themes
you'd like to see explored infuture columns, drop a line at
topia@fm.nmt.ne.jp
このページでだんだん活躍できる日本語を紹介したいので ,テーマがあれば、ぜひ教えてください。topia@fm.nmt.ne.jp

6.1 metres of mountaind

id you know that the
shortest mountainin Japan is locatedi n To k u s h i m aprefecture? This marvel ofg e o g ra p h y c a n b e f o u n don the side of the road enr o u t e t o t h e To k u s h i m aZoo, in Katanokami-cho. At
6.1 metres, it can easily be
mistaken for a clump of trees,
but closer examination reveals
that it is in fact a tiny, tiny

mountain. The mountain,
known as Benten-yama, ishome to a miniscule Shinto
Shrine (Itsukushima Jinja )a n d t h e Ka t a n o k a m i - c h ocommunity message board. A
poster on the board suggeststhat holding a wedding at
Japan's shortest mountain issymbolic of "starting your lifeat the lowest point so that
there is nowhere to go fromthere but up." Lucky stickers

by claire kinder

are available at the ramen
shop across the street. To get
to Benten-yama, take the JR
Mugi line, get off at Jizobashi
station and walk to the west,
or drive south from Tokushima City on Route 55 and takethe turn for Tokushima Zoo.
For more pictures of Bentenya m a a n d o t h e r N u m b e r
Ones of Tokushima, checkout http://www.tcn.ne.jp/~nankai/bentenyama.htm

Using the car on the left for reference, you can see how small this 'mountain' really is!
rytale illustrations, horror ﬁlms, and pulp comic
books. Since graduation she has based herself
mainly in London and exhibited internationally,
including solo shows in Australia and in Germany. In 2003 she received a UNESCO-Aschberg
bursary tospend threemonths at
the Sanskriti
Foundation inIndia, as wellas completing
residencies at
the Sacatar
Foundation in
Brazil and theBemis Centerfor Contemporary Arts in Omaha, Nebraska, where she will
have a solo exhibition later this year. She has
also lectured on her work at the Bemis Centerand at Loyola University, New Orleans. She will
arrive in Kamiyama on September 24th.

KAIR Proﬁles... con't from page 1
Ai Kitahara

is originally from Yokohama City. She studied
oil painting and lithography at Musashino Art
University in Tokyo, and went abroad in 1990 to
study at the Grenoble School of Art in France.
Since then, much of her work has been concerned with the vague limits of abstract meanings and spatial boundaries. These themes also
form the basis of her installations today. She
has lived in Paris from 1993 onwards, while
studying at the Instituts des Hautes Etudes en
Arts Plastique, and doing the post-diploma program at Nantes School of Art. Her analysis offolk stories and fairy tales has been the basis
for her many experiential installation works.
Most of her personal and group exhibiitions
have been in Europe. In the 1990s, she mostly
made compositions using mass-produced, consumer goods, but recent installation works tend
towards construction of such things as architecture, furniture,and urban ﬁxtures (public sculpture). She will arrive in Kamiyama on September 13th.

japanese lessonw

by takako yamada

Personal Pronouns and Vocatives; Part I: ‘You’ is not always あなた
hen you begin to study Japanese, you may come across these example sentences:
わたしは ジョンです。
I am John.

あなたは アンさんですか。
Are you Ann?

However, in our daily lives, Japanese people seldom speak like this. We would rather say:
しつれい

もう

失礼
失
礼ですが、アンさんですか。
Excuse me, but are you Ann?

ジョンと申します。

My name is John.

In Japanese, subjects are often omitted when they are evident. In this case, we can tell the subject of the verbs without any reference, therefore わたしは and あなたは are not necessary.
Furthermore, わたし and あなた are not the only ﬁrst and second personal pronouns in Japanese.
We choose many other expressions depending on various factors such as age, sex, social status,
context, and degree of closeness to the person we are speaking to. How many Japanese words
can you think of which correspond to the English ‘I’ and ‘you’? The following are just some examples.
I:
わたし、わたくし、ぼく、おれ、
せんせい
おとうさん、先先生（teacher, doctor)
先生

you:
あなた、きみ、おまえ、おとうさん、
しゃちょう
せんせい
ぼく、社
社長（president）
社長
、先
先生、
先生
せんぱい
た なか
先輩（superior）
先輩
、田中さん
中
(Mr./Ms Tanaka)

We use not only personal pronouns but also nouns which indicate things like social status andfamily relation. In the case of an ofﬁce worker, for example, he will probably refer to himself formally, as わたし when talking with his boss. However, he will use the informal ぼく or おれ withhis colleagues or wife, and he will refer to himself as 'father' - おとうさん or パパ with his children. Here are some other examples:
Teacher talking to students:
えんりょ

せんせい

き

なんでも遠
遠慮なく先
遠慮
先生に聞いてくださいね。
先生
Please don’t hesitate to ask me any questions.
Father talking to his child:
きょう

いそが

おとうさんは、今
今
今日とても忙しいから、
忙しいから、つ
かわりにおかあさんが連連
連れてい行ってくれるよ。
I am very busy today, so your mother will take you there instead.
An adult asking a boy how old he is:
ぼくは、おとし いくつ？
How old are you?
Listen to the people around you and see how many ways of saying 'I' and 'you' you can ﬁnd!
Next Month: Personal Pronouns and Vocatives; Part II. More on when to use and when not to use あなたmemoranda
Join Toastmasters
Toastmasters Club provides a positive learning
environment to help members develop the art of effective

The Chiiori Project
Coming Events

public speaking.

Septembercontact:

17 - 20* Open House 3-Day Weekend

Takashi Suzuki suzuki@mocha.ocn.ne.jp
Nobuko Haneji 088.655.5316

http://tokutmc.hp.infoseek.co.jp.

10 - 1224 - 26

Mountain Poets Weekend
Thatch cutting preparation at Kyobashira Pass

October
1-3

Jazz Concert & Explore Iya Weekend

8 - 11*

Heike Matsuri & Trail Clearing Weekend

Tokushima Zoo
Photo Contest

15 - 17Hiking Mt Tsurugi to Kazurabashi

22 - 24TBA

29 - 31

Ghouls Weekend

Submit your cute or funny photo taken at Tokushima Zoo

5-7

Country Cooking Weekend

for a chance to win cash prizes! Photos must have been

12 - 14Music Jam Weekend

Novembertaken after November 1, 2003 to be eligible. There is aseperate category for students.

www.chiiori.org
reservations@chiiori.org

Size: Regular, 'service' size prints

0883.88.5290

Deadline: October 31, 2004
Send photos to Tokushima Zoo by mail, or drop them off

All visits to Chiiori are by appointment only.

at participating camera shops. Winning prints will be dis-

* three-day holiday weekend

played at the Tokushima Zoo Centre from November 21,
2004 until January 1, 2005.
Tokushima Zoo
Nyudo 22-1, Shibuya-cho, Tokushima
http://www.city.tokushima.tokushima.jp/zoo/index.html
088.636.3215

On Sale at TOPIA
・postage stamps
・postcards
・revenue stamps
Please inquire at the counter. Receipts available.

Tokushima University
Ping Pong Club
English Chat RoomEnglish speakers are invited to volunteer to speak with
Tokushima University students and teachers in an "English
Chat Room" setting.
When: Tuesday October 5 and 19, 5:30 - 7:30
Where: Tokushima University
Contact: Murasawa-san at TOPIA
088.656.3303

Meet new people and get in shape with ping pong! Everyone is welcome to join this fun and casual ping pong club.
Where: Omatsu Elementary School Gym
When: Every Thursday, 8:00 - 10:00pm
Participation Fee: 500 yen
Contact: Mr. Ishikawa
088.669.0803"Konnichiwa Tokushima" – JTM's Japanese textbook, great for self-study and review; available at TOPIA

memoranda
Tokers FC
Join Tokushima's international football club in time to enter the Western ALT Soccer Tournament on Awaji-shima,
October 16-17. Roster must be registered by September
17, so act now! Women welcome. Non-JETs welcome.
Training is every Saturday evening - ﬁeld TBA
Contact: Anthony Uno
088.622.7195
an_chan@fastmail.fm
http://www.altsoccertournament.com

Study JapaneseMorning Japanese classes start up again at TOPIA in early
October. Come in and sign up for a class that suits yourskill level or drop in on Murasawa-san's Tuesday morning class for a free introductory lesson. Call or drop in to
TOPIA for more information.
Time: 10:30 am - 12:00 noon
Cost: ￥1500 per semester
088.656.3303

Arasowaren GroupPhoto
If you participated in the international dancing group,
Arasowaren, in this year's Awa Odori on August 14, yourface might appear in one of this year's two group photos.
Large size prints cost 2,300 yen, with smaller, cheapersizes also available. Come down to TOPIA and ﬁll out anorder form if you want your own copy of the Awa Odori
2004 Arasowaren Group Photo.

Chiiori Volunteers
The Chiiori Project is seeking volunteers from November
15 to December 15 to help cut thatch to replace our roof,
which is in serious need of repair. This is hard physicalwork, and we need committed volunteers to form part ofa working team. If you are not sure about the physicallabour, but still want to help, we also need team members
who can help with cooking and housekeeping. Volunteers would preferably be available to work for the wholemonth, or a minimum of two weeks, with food and board
provided for free. Volunteers will be staying in a house on
Kyobashira Pass near the thatch ﬁelds, and visiting Chiiori
on rainy days.
www.chiiori.org
reservations@chiiori.org
0883.88.5290

Touch Rugby
Tokushima Recreational Association
30th Anniversary Touch Rugby Competitionin Naruto
date: 9:30 - 15:30, Sunday, September 26, 2004
place: Naruto Sports Park Soccer & Rugby Field
participation fee: ￥1000/person (under 18 : ￥500)
inquiries & application:
Daisaku Oya (Tokushima Touch Association)
2-5-10 Fukushima Tokushima-shi, 770-0868
090.9557.3390
di072thewinger@hotmail.com

The Tokushima
Modern Art Museum
Showing: September 12 - November 7
The works of Pierre Bonnard (1867 - 1947)
Admission: ￥600
Access: Walk 35 min. from Bunka no Mori Stn. or takethe bus from Tokushima Stn. (25 min.)People with no previous experience playing touch rugby
are invited to compete in the Beginners' division. Men andwomen of any age are welcome!
For more about touch rugby, see:
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/pages-in-japan/homepage/touch/
touch2.html

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Japanese Cooking
Class for Foreigners

日本の家庭料理を作ってみませんか ?

Learn about Japanese culture through cooking and enjoy

食文化を通して、徳島の生活を楽しんでください。

your life in Tokushima!

日時：

date: October 17 (Sunday) 10:30 - 13:30

場所：

内町コミュニティーセンター （市役所の近く）

place: Uchimachi Community Centre (near City Hall)

講師：

浜本通恵

instructor: Michie Hamamoto
fee: ￥500 - limited to 10 participants

対象：

外国人

apply: usuzumi@nmt.ne.jp or

定員：

fax: 088.692.6289 or go to TOPIA to ﬁll out an applica-

申込み：

tion. Write your name, nationality, contact information (e-usuzumi@nmt.ne.jp

mail or telephone), and the Japanese food you'd like tocook. The menu will be published in the November edition

fax: 088.692.6289
または、TOPIA の掲示板の申込用紙

of Awa Life.

氏名、国名、連絡先（メールか Tel）、作ってみたい日本

１０月１７日（日） １０：３０ ～ １３：３０

（予定）
先生

参加費：５００円
１０名程度

料理を書いて、申し込んでください。
Presented by: HIROBA International

主催：

Uncovered

UncoveredAn exhibition of light sculptures by Sean Ramsay

ショーン・ラムジー

September 18 - October 17

2004 年 9 月 18 日（土）～ 10 月 17 日（日）10am - 6pm daily

10:00 ～ 18:00

Free Admission

会場：徳島県美馬郡脇町うだつ通り"Jidai-Ya" on old Udatsu Street“ 時代屋 ” ２階ギャラリー

Wakimachi

入場無料

0883.53.1015

0883.53.1015

Free Concert

地球市民コンサート

B.B. Mo-Franck Congolese keyboard and percussionist

B.B. モフラン奏者

Place: Aizumi-cho Town Theatre, 4F

会場： 藍住町町民シアター

Time: September 25, 2004

日時： 2004 年 9 月 25 日 ( 土 ) 入場無料

3:00, 4:00, and 5:30 shows

国際交流懇話会 HIROBA (HIROBA International)
メニューは１1 月号阿波ライフにて発表します。

光の造形展

ｺﾝｺﾞ出身ｷｰﾎﾞｰﾄﾞ、ﾊﾟｰｶｯｼｮﾝを演奏
合同庁舎 4F

開場 15:00 開演 16:00 終演 17:30

Entry: Free, but entry is limited to people who apply by

氏 名、 性 別、 年 齢 を お 書 き 添 え の 上、 は が き、FAX、

mail. Send your name, sex, age, and contact informatione-mail のいずれかの方法でお申し込み下さい。

to:先着 200 名

Aizumi-cho Shakai Fukushi Kyogi Kainai,

お申込先： 〒 771-1203

藍住町奥野字矢上前 32-1

Yakami-mae 32-1, Okuno aza, Aizumi-cho. 771-1203

藍住町社会福祉協議会内

FAX 088.692.1626

fax. 088.692.1626 aizumi_kokusai@garnet.nmt.ne.jp

aizumi_kokusai@garnet.nmt.ne.jp

All foreign residents of Tokushima are eligible to receive editions of Awa Life for free each month by mail. Contact TOPIA for more details.

memoranda
日本語指導ボランティア養成講座
講師： 徳島大学留学生ｾﾝﾀｰ ( 大石教授、三隅教授、留学生ｾﾝﾀｰの先生方 )全講座 48 時間( 前期 24 時間、後期 24 時間 )場所： 鴨島町中央公民館 2F 視聴覚室 0883.24.5112
受講： 無料、ﾃｷｽﾄは各自購入※全課程受講が条件です

定員： 20 名

ｽﾘｰｴｰﾈｯﾄﾜｰｸ「みんなの日本語Ｉ」 2500 円 ( 主権者がまとめて購入すると割引があります。)

申込： はがき、FAX，ﾒｰﾙのいずれかで 1. 氏名
5. メールアドレス ( 携帯、PC)

6. 性別

3. 電話 ( 自宅、携帯 )4.FAX

7. 日本語指導の経験の有無 8. テキスト購入ご希望

申込・問合わせ●鴨島町文化研修センター●鴨島町国際交流協会

2. 住所〒 776-0010

会長

瀬尾規子

鴨島町鴨島 696-14

TEL

0883.243.2762〒 776-0020 鴨島町西麻植青柳 8-3

FAX 0883.22.0016

seoatom@mandala.ne.jp

TEL 0883.24.2762 FAX 0883.24.2769

Counselling Service at TOPIA
TOPIA offers a counselling and advisory service to all foreign residents to help with issues involving accidents, working
conditions, housing, visas, international marriage, and more. Don’t keep your problems to yourself - talk to somebody who
can help! Counselling is available in English and Japanese.
Monday to Thursday
10:00 - 17:00
088.656.3303
or088.656.3320 (allows three way conversations with an interpreter)
Please note that although every effort will be made, we may not be able to deal with all cases.

tv movie schedule・september
DateTime Place

Nat.

タイトル

Title

Sun. 12

21:00

⑥ ABC

USA ’97

L.A. ｺﾝﾌｨﾃﾞﾝｼｬﾙ

L.A. ConﬁdentialMon. 13

1:35⑧関西

USA ‘97

イン・マイ・ライフ

The Only Thrill

Fri. 17

21:03

⑩読売

USA '98

ゴジラ

GodzillaSF

Sun. 19

21:00

⑥ ABC

USA ‘00

U-571

U-571



Mon. 20late night⑧関西

USA ‘98

ﾏﾝﾊｯﾀﾝで抱きしめて

Living Out Loud

Tue. 21

1:40⑩読売

USA ’00

ﾘﾀｰﾝ

Under Hellgate Bridge

SF

Fri. 24

1:35⑩読売

USA/FRN ’99

ジャンヌ・ダルク

Joan of Ark

Sun. 26

21:00

⑥ ABC

FRN '02

トランスポーター

Le TransporteurSun. 26

late night④毎日

USA ‘93

ｷﾞﾙﾃｨ

Guilty as Sin? mysterysuspense comedy

This schedule is subject to change.

dramaﾄｩ

ﾆｭｰﾖｰｸ

罪深き罪

action ♥love & romance SF science ﬁction

cinema guide
untill 9/17

Spider-Man 2〔USA〕スパイダーマン２

TOKUSHIMA HALL 徳島ホール

i, Robot【USA】アイ、ロボット(Saiwai-cho)088-653-1802

Road 88【JPN】ロード８８ (in Japanese)

TOKUSHIMA TOHO 徳島東宝
(Kagoya-machi)
088-625-5311
TOHO CINEMA 東宝シネマ(Kagoya-machi)

1st of each month → \1000
Men’s day / Friday → \1000

from9/18

Ladies’ day / Tuesday → \1000

Naruto〔JPN〕ナルト (in Japanese)
1st of each month → \1000 Ladies’ Day / Wednesday → \1000
Men’s Day / Thursday → \1000
Van Helsing【USA】ヴァン・ヘルシング

088-625-5311

1st of each month → \1000 Ladies’ Day / Wednesday → \1000
Men’s Day / Thursday → \1000

ATTACK HEIWA アタック平和

Thunderbirds【USA】サンダーバード(Kuramoto 2 cho-me)

Lovers【USA】 Lovers (in Chinese)

088-631-6490

1st of each month → \1000 Customer Appreciation Day/ Wednesday → \1000

HEIWA DOLBY 平和ドルビー

Van Helsing【USA】ヴァン・ヘルシング(Kuramoto 2 cho-me)
088-631-6490

1st of each month → \1000 Customer Appreciation Day/ Wednesday → \1000

KITAJIMA CINEMA SUNSHINE

Harry Potter and the Prisoner Of Azkaban〔UK〕ﾊﾘｰ･ﾎﾟｯﾀｰとｱｽﾞｶﾊﾞ
ﾝの囚人*FUJI GRAND*
北島シネマサンシャイン（Kitajima-cho Tainohama）
088-697-3113
088-697-3111（24 時間テープ案内）

untill 9/17

Spider-Man 2〔USA〕スパイダーマン２ (in Japanese or English)
Shrek 2【USA】シュレック２
Infernal Affairs【HK】ｲﾝﾌｧﾅﾙ・ｱﾌｪｱ / 無問序曲 (in Chinese)
Two Brothers【USA】トゥー・ブラザーズfrom 9/18

i, Robot【USA】アイ、ロボット
Road 88【JPN】ロード８８ (in Japanese)
Lovers【USA】 Lovers (in Chinese)

The 1st of each month → \1000
Ladies’ Day / Wednesday → \1000

Nin × Nin Ninja Hattori kun【JPN】 Nin × Nin 忍者ハットリくん (in Japanese)
The Chronicles of Riddick【USA】リディック
Fahrenheit 9/11【USA】華氏９１１
Van Helsing【USA】ヴァン・ヘルシング
The Village【USA】ヴィレッジ
Taking Lives【USA】テイキング・ライブス
Swing Girls【JPN】スイングガールズ (in Japanese)
Resident Evil. Apocalypse【USA】バイオハザードⅡ

coming soon:
At Kitajima Sunshine Cinema in Fuji Grand this October:
Twisted - starring Ashley Judd
Secret Window - starring Johnny Depp
Scooby Doo 2 - starring Matthew Lillard and Neil Fanning

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