#shozotanaka — Public Fediverse posts

> Like many of their #samurai forbears, whose attitudes in practice often belied the honoured status theoretically accorded to the farmer in #feudalSociety, they could not help regarding the peasantry as a remote, barely human species whose welfare certainly did not concern them. The instinctive assumption was, therefore, that any restriction of the mine’s activities in the interests of mere #peasants was unthinkable.
#KennethStrong in #OxAgainstTheStorm biography of #TanakaShozo #ShozoTanaka

Night, a cold hard rain
Bull pulls a loaded cart
No wheel tracks remain

Struck hard by the rain
Bull pulls funeral wagon
Nothing left after

This might be the(a?) source for #KennethStrong's book title _Ox Against The Storm: A biography of Tanana Shozo - Japan's Conservationist Pioneer

But isn't an ox a neutered bull?
En Mexicano: ¿Si, buey?

> 大雨にうたれたゝかれ重荷挽く　うしのあゆみのあとかたもなし
http://www8.plala.or.jp/kawakiyo/kiyo43_01.htm
#ShozoTanaka #正造 #TanakaShozo
#田中正造 #うしのあゆみ #OxAgainstTheStorm #BullThruStorm #BullInRain

Tanaka Shozo on Water has me thinking of LaoTzu's (LaoTse's LaoZi's) Chapter 8 and a book about pump storage dams and how they drive up the cost of electricity as they service nuclear reactors.

#ShozoTanaka #TanakaShozo #YuTanaka #TanakaYu #Water #OnWater

https://terebess.hu/english/tao/waley.html#Kap08
#ArthurWaley's verson of #TaoDeChing? #LaoTzu #LaoTse #LaoZi

Why didn't I start reading Shozo Tanaka years ago? He's making me think of Wendell Berry looking to Nature as Measure, how people should look to forests, mountains as models...
English: https://apjjf.org/-Robert-Stolz/2331/article.html
日本語: https://besobernow-yuima.blogspot.com/2013/11/japan-focus.html
code: https://codeberg.org/bsmall2/view-tables/src/branch/main/Tanaka-Shouzou/flow-v-poison
#ShozoTanaka #RobertStolz #TanakaShozo #田中正造 #谷中学 #流対毒 #FlowVsPoison