The Hasekura Bulletin Newsletter of the Hasekura League for Japanese Studies
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#04 Mar 30, 2024
『論語』為政篇に、「君子不器（君子は器ならず）」という 短い言葉があります。幼い頃から論語に親しんだ渋沢栄一は、 これを 「箸には箸、筆には筆と夫々其器に従つた用があるの と同じやうに、凡人には唯それぞれ得意の一技一能があるのみ で、万般に行き亘つたところの無いものである。然し、非凡な 達識の人になると一技一能に秀れた器らしい所が無くなつてし まひ、将に将たる奥底の知れぬ大きな所」 があることと解釈 し、明治政府の財政のあり方を巡って自らと対立した大久保利 通はそのような人物であったと回想しています（『実験論語処 世談』「器ならざりし大久保利通」）
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#04 Mar 30, 2024
The Analects of Confucius (Master Kong) includes the passage, jun zi bu qi (君子不器) meaning “An exemplary person is not a vessel” in the chapter on the government principles. Shibusawa Eiichi, a Japanese industrialist who knew the Analects well, interpreted the passage as “Just as chopsticks are best used for eating and brushes for writing, mediocre persons have their own unique skill and not general abilities applicable everywhere.
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#03 Aug 30, 2023
このTHE HASEKURA BULLETIN を前回お届けしたのは、2020 年7 月でした。その後、未曾有のパンデミックによって、支倉リーグの対面での活動は大きく制限されました。ただ、我々はその間も歩みをとめず、昨年9 月には、東北大学創立115 周年、総合大学100 周年記念行事の一環として支倉サミットと支倉シンポジウムを実施しました。
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#03 Aug 30, 2023
After the last issue of THE HASEKURA BULLETIN in July 2020, our in-person activities in the Hasekura League were greatly restricted due to the unprecedented pandemic. However, we have not stopped moving forward. In September of last year, we successfully held the Hasekura Summit and Hasekura Symposium as part of the 115th anniversary of TU's founding and its 100th anniversary as a comprehensive university.
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#02 Jul 9, 2020
This follow-up to our initial issue of the Bulletin comes at what must be one of the strangest and most challenging times most of us have experienced. The worldwide spread of the novel coronavirus – which, at the time of this writing, shows no sign of slowing – has in the space of weeks shattered assumptions related to travel and social intercourse, upturned economies both national and international, and transformed, in ways that are probably permanent, the nature of work and employment.
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#01 Apr 1, 2020
Welcome to the inaugural issue of the Hasekura Bulletin, the official newsletter of the Hasekura League. As the name suggests, this newsletter will serve to provide regular updates and news concerning Hasekura League events, activities, and publications, but that is only the beginning.
