日別アーカイブ: 2019年11月18日

今日の給食・11月18日(月)

今日の給食は、ごはん、牛乳、白身魚フライ、切り干し大根の炒め煮、なめこ汁 でした。おいしい給食をありがとうございました。

ALT Report: A Garden in Vancouver (November 18, 2019)

Hello, everyone. In this week’s ALT Report, I will talk about a garden.

Can you see the garden in this picture? It is a traditional Japanese garden in Vancouver, Canada, the Nitobe Memorial Garden at the University of British Columbia. But who was “Nitobe”?

Inazo Nitobe was a famous writer in the early 20th century. Maybe you have seen this money before. In 1984, the Bank of Japan put Nitobe on the 5000-yen note. He wrote a book that was very popular all over the world, called Bushido: the Soul of Japan. This book was about the “way of the warrior,” bushido, and Japanese culture. He was born in Morioka, Iwate prefecture in 1862, and lived in the United States, Germany and Canada. Because he was important to Canadians, the University of British Columbia has a Japanese garden with his name.

I hope you can see the Nitobe Memorial Garden someday. It is a beautiful reminder of the connection between Japan and Canada.

More reading: Inazo Nitobe on Japanese Wikipedia

-Devon (Kasachu ALT)