Friday 24 March 2023

CHINO Eiichi and Golden Prague

 
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]


Tokyo
28 June 2014
2 October 2014 References added
Sekinan Research Field of Language

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