CHINO Eiichi and Golden Prague
TANAKA Akio
He is the dearest teacher of my life.
He died in 2002 age 70.
We first met in spring 1969.
Half a century passed by.
Now I am over his age.
24 March 2023.
C also died early, who had taught me Russian and linguistics.
He loved the old city that had the beautiful towers and bridges.
In C's many works there was the essay "The Moon of Carpathians".
He wrote that the conference was over, departed at Kiev, saw the moon and
churches over the Carpathian Mountains, impetuously went to the west,
passed Slovakia, Moravia, Bohemia, and at last reached "Golden Prague". Prague, it was his youth itself.
Now I cannot hear his voice telling the various anecdotes on languages,
of which he freely had commanded. By the short heading, a newspaper
reported his death, naming as "the genius of linguistics".
[References]
- From Distance to Pseudo-Kobayashi Distance / 5 February 2012
- Linguistic Circle of Prague / 13 July - 19 July 2012
- Prague in 1920s, The Linguistic Circle of Prague and Sergej Karcevskij's paper "Du dualisme asymetrique du signe linguistique" / Print, 2012
Tokyo
28 June 2014
2 October 2014 References added
Sekinan Research Field of Language
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